Zankuro Matsudaira (Ken Watanabe) is a low-grade vassal of the Tokugawa Shogun, forced to moonlight as a bodyguard and executioner to make ends meet. He also has a drinking problem, an overeating mother, and a propensity to protect the oppressed, all of which eat into his finances. His confident mother Masajo (Kyoko Kishida) is the descendant of a famous family of shogunate retainers and a mistress of the pen and sword, who regards her son as a failure.
In an era when samurai ruled Japan, the Zomen no Oni wiped out all but one member of the Shinsengumi...
13th year of the Genroku era. Matahachiro Aoe, a samurai of the Shonai clan from Dewa Province, acci...
Saotome Mondonosuke, "Hatamoto" (direct servant of the shogun), a handsome man with a scar on his fo...
Break-dancing but fierce warrior Mugen has to deal with the cold-blooded and conceited Jin, a samura...
During the war-torn feudal wars in Japan, the Awa clan faced certain extinction from a rival clan ba...
Norizuki Gennojo, a commander of the Shogunate’s troops, sets out on a journey to train in swordplay...
Many years ago the world was divided into two stars, the Eastern and the Western, that were connecte...
Takechi Hanpeita, a samurai from Bakumatsu period time-travels 150 years to modern day Japan.
Samurai Girl is a six-hour mini-series loosely based on the popular young-adult novel series by Carr...
A former samurai, a yakuza bodyguard, a devious spy, and a geisha assassin try to find their place i...
A Japanese period drama broadcast in prime-time in 1984, based on Goseki Kojima and Kazuo Koike 's m...
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is figh...
In the midst of an industrial revolution, the people of Hinomoto fight hordes of undead creatures, k...
A story set in the mid-1800's about a young doctor who has been trained in Western-style medicine an...
Saburo is a high school student good in sports, but not very good with his studies. One day, Saburo ...
When swords were outlawed in the eleventh year of the Meiji era, the mighty samurai population began...
Manji is a crass, violent samurai with a special ability: he cannot die. Cursed with immortality by ...
It is said that the Shinsengumi, led by Isami Kondo, delayed the start of the Meiji restoration by 1...
Sakazaki Iwane is a ronin who spends idle days in Edo. Until a few months ago, he was a promising so...
The historical novel series depicts Heizou Hasegawa, who metes justice on wrongdoers and supervises ...