History of Jirocho Shimizu

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

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique...

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...

Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartmen...

Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal...

From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of...

When the Shogunates greatest secret is stolen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. The Shog...

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji...

Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is as...

Light-hearted samurai comedy. The second son of a feudal lord runs away from an arranged marriage. H...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the c...

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...

The famed leader Oda Nobunaga had two right-hand men who contributed to unifying the nation. One was...

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamb...

When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of moder...

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...

Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal...

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in...