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Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Anne Watanabe

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yukie Nakama

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career....

Genre: Animation

Cast: Miyoko Shoji

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Terao

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Japan around 1860: popular courtesan Asagiri will be freed soon from her service, yet she cannot imagine any other existence. Until one day at a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumi Adachi

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

Leading an expedition in Germany, Kougami unseals the resting place of one of the alchemists that created the Core Medals in an effort to retrieve a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shu Watanabe

In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Kakunoshin Yanagida (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) was a samurai, but he was forced out of the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived in poverty with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shigeru Izumiya

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryohei Suzuki

Fumi becomes Genzui Kusaka’s wife. During the turbulent times of the closing days for the Tokugawa shogunate, she lives positively and tries to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mao Inoue

Shinsengumi! is a Taiga drama television series produced by Japanese broadcaster NHK. It was a popular drama about the Shinsengumi, a Japanese...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Shingo Katori

During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toru Tezuka

Gabimaru reigns as the strongest and most ruthless assassin in his village. But now finds himself on death row—with only one way out: retrieve...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Chiaki Kobayashi

The Shogunate is in its final years, and war is fast approaching. When Yojiro Akizuki, a dark and mysterious mercenary, nears something supernatural...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Daisuke Namikawa

In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, an unemployed samurai finds work however he can.

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Tomokazu Sugita

It is currently the Taiheimeji era, during the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate. In this era, breasts mean everything. If you have breasts, you are...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Minako Kotobuki

Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Maya Erskine

Yae no Sakura is a 2013 Japanese television series. It is the 52nd NHK taiga drama. The story focuses on Niijima Yae, who is portrayed by Haruka...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruka Ayase

The 38th NHK Taiga Drama is Genroku Ryoran. The "Forty-seven Loyal Samurai" is one of the most enduring and best loved stories of Japan's history....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichikawa Ebizo XI

The year is 1863, with the story being based in Kyoto. We follow a youth named Nio who is an honest and kind soul who's considerate of his family,...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Shuichiro Umeda

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

The drama series depicts the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616). Takechiyo (who later becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu) was born...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Matsumoto

The historical novel series depicts Heizou Hasegawa, who metes justice on wrongdoers and supervises the crackdown on arsonists and robbers in Japan's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenyu Horiuchi

A pair of adopted siblings run a rental shop in old Edo where fire and flooding is prevalent and everyday items are rented out to not impede when...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Mikako Komatsu

Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin,"...

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Noriyuki Higashiyama

The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

In an alternative feudal Japan, a strange disease that only affects males caused a massive population reduction, leaving females to fill the vacant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuya Kamenashi