Heizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen and twelve people murdered. This particular group of theives are most dangerous because of the willingness to kill for money, but what about this mysterious unibrow, who is he? What is he up to?

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

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

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

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

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious str...

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

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After ...

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...

After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but...

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

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

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku r...

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

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

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

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...