An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The situation snowballs out of control, leading to a deadly duel and political fallout which threatens the entire clan. Declared mentally unstable by the corrupt authority, Shinpachi begins his descent into true insanity…

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his...

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apar...

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

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

Sebastian's (16) sheltered small-town life changes suddenly when his family takes in 15-year-old Kol...

A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory bei...

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants t...

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

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

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally l...

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