A single bullet cuts through Kyoto in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate right before the restoration of imperial rule. Who plotted to assassinate Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who is about to become the last shogun of Japan? Was it the faction wanting to overthrow him or the rebels within the shogunate? Mutual enemies Sakamoto Ryoma, the wandering samurai, and Hijikata Toshizo, a deputy leader of the Shinsengumi and vassal of the Tokugawa clan, receive a secret order to track down the culprit. They are given a mere two days.

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

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

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...

Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...

Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outla...

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

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 ...

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

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and n...

Kakizaki Yuji’s period film is not like the jidaigeki films we are used to. While it deals with them...