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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

1732, in the era of Yoshimune Tokugawa. West Japan suffers from a severe famine. Three years after wards, it appeared as though calm had been...

Genre: History

Cast: Takehiro Hira

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kengo Kora

This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation of a story by novelist Shuhei Fujisawa. A...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The main character, Baian Fujieda, is a dark hero who has two faces: one as a skilled acupuncturist who saves lives, and the other as a criminal who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

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 story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Heizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen and twelve people murdered. This particular group of...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

Ito, daughter of a clan official, encounters Magoshiro Eguchi. Magoshiro is a low ranking samurai sparks an attraction with Ito. Ito challenges...

Genre: History

Cast: Keiko Kitagawa

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi Tokugawa with his twin, but it becomes a problem...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it flourished not through conquest and exploration,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Auslin

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A chronicle of the life of Yasui Santetsu, a 17th century master of go who turned his attention to astronomy and created a new calendar for Japan....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on a mission...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura