Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a ...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

Goro is an archeologist, fascinated with the national treasure Gassho clay figure and remains from t...

This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in ...

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an ...

Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young...

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is tr...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...