Goemon is a legendary master thief who roams at will throughout the chaotic world of the Sengoku - Warring States period. Being a charisma for the public, he steals from the riches and provides for the poor. One night, he unexpectedly steels a strang...
Grave of the Fireflies opens on an evening in 1945, after Japan's surrender at the end of World War II; and in a train station, the young Seita dies alone. The rest of the movie tells us, in flashback, how things have come to this. Seita and Setsuko ...
During the early days of the American occupation, a group of prostitutes live and work in the basement of a bombed-out building, governing themselves with a strict code of conduct. Anyone who breaks the rules - particularly the rule forbidding sex wi...
This show marks the return of the Jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin". which has had several seasons between the 1970's and the 1990's. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto F...
Nagasawa Masami is Princess Yuki, the sole member of the royal family to survive when her kingdom is attacked by neighboring forces. Yuki's only hope is to escape to a nearby allied land with her secret stash of gold so that she can rebuild her force...
In Sung dynasty, a Japanese man named Yagi... couldn't take the badgering from the male black tea tribe and ridiculed that the male black tea was not the best tea in the world; causing the two tribes to challenge each other in a "tea fight." The male...
The film"Kakushi Toride no San Akunin , The Last Princess" starring Jun Matsumoto (Arashi), Masami Nagasawa, and Hiroshi Abe. In the Sengoku period, the Yamana Army searches for treasures and more at Akizuki castle. But when treasure hunter Musashi a...
Directed by Shimoyama Ten, the dazzling 2005 film Shinobi centers on the drama resulting from the war between two ninja clans in the early part of the Tokugawa era. In the film, Nakama Yukie portrays Oboro, the granddaughter of Ogen (Lily), the respe...
Directed by Wilson Yip, the film stars Donnie Yen in the lead role, and features fight choreography by Sammo Hung. Ip's two sons, Ip Chun and Ip Ching, along with several Wing Chun practitioners also appear in the film.
Ip Man is the first film to...
Nagasawa Masami is Princess Yuki, the sole member of the royal family to survive when her kingdom is attacked by neighbouring forces. Yuki's only hope is to escape to a nearby allied land with her secret stash of gold so that she can rebuild her forc...
For Those We Love follows a group of young kamikaze pilots during their final days, as remembered by an elderly restaurant operator who spent time with them before they flew off on their last mission. The film touches on the people whose lives were a...
The story begins in media res, with nine young samurai, led by the earnest Isaka (Kenichi Matsuyama), deep in a discussion about graft and corruption in their clan. They suspect that the elderly chamberlain, Mutsuta (Makoto Fujita), is the guilty par...
Inoue Mao plays the role of Mineko, a young maiko (apprentice geisha) in the Gion district of Kyoto.The story is loosely based on the autobiography of the famous retired geisha Mineko Iwasaki (who was one of the sources for Arthur Golden's Memoirs of...
In the historic fate shared between Japan and Korea, the drama bridges the strait and paints the picture of the miracle of life and a Japanese woman's two romances, tossed by the waves of time.
Based on a true story about a Japanese woman, seeking h...
The script is excellent, kept me right in the seat, cinematography stunning, and I was amazed with the historical details of the uniformsand military hardware. I would give it a rating, or two thumbs way up, as Siskel and Ebert used to do. The russia...
Akira Kurosawa's brilliantly conceived retelling of KING Lear Combines Japanese history and Shakespeare's plot with the director's own feelings about loyalty and betrayal. In 16th century Japan, the aging Lord Hidetora (Tatsuya Nakadai) passes the de...
Toshiro Mifune stars as Isaburo, an aging swordsman living a quite life until his clan lord orders that his son marry the lord's mistress, who has recently displeased the ruler. Reluctantly, father and son take in the woman, and, to the family's surp...
Kamakura Shogun, giving credence to the slanders of his subordinates sends out a strict order to the barrier-guards of several provinces to apprehend his younger brother, Yoshitsune comes up to a barrier-guard on his escapade to Mutsu-no-kuni. Thanks...
Being the first masterpiece of Kurosawa, the film was a great success and established the reputation of Kurosawa. The film explores the relationship between the creator of Judo and his faithful protege. It depicts the process Sugata, arash and meddle...
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Hiroshi Inagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel has been called Japan's Gone with the Wind. This sweeping sage of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (powerfully portrayed by Toshiro Mifune) plays ...
Chushingura is a famous story in Japan on 47 samurai in the Edo period who avenge their lord against Lord Kira, who was the cause of the master's death. This drama based on Shoichiro Ikemiya’s book focuses on Kichiemon Terasaka, the only survivor of...
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to f...
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 her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skil...
A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small me...
Makiko Uchida arrives in a southern Japanese port hoping to find a boat that will take her to the final resting place of the Battleship Yamato on the 60th anniversary of its sinking. She is rebuffed by all until she reveals to Katsumi Kamio tha...
From the story of fighting and war between women in the Kou Shiro, especially the 6th generation of the general,the first time it has been show in the drama serius,this time ,Fukada Kyouko will be acting as the lead actress, of course, there'll be al...
Kijou no Kuron" or "Japanese Tradition" is a satirical instructional film for how to woo a Japanese woman. A second short available online, "The Japanese Tradition - Sushi", is an instructional film for sushi etiquette. Both films star a pair of acto...
One of Yasujiro Ozu's early masterworks, it concerns an actor, Kihachi (Takeshi Sakomoto) leading a struggling theater troupe who returns to the provincial town where he fathered a child years before. He seeks out his son, now a young man, and the wo...
Remake of Yoshitsune to Benkei, a story about a young prince (Takezai) learning the arts of samurai warfare alongside his assigned bodyguard (Hayashi) while at the same time, tries to marry his beloved (Kinoshita) in times of wars... 源义经乳名牛若...
Im 12. Jahrhundert sind die mongolischen Stämme im Krieg. Zur herkömmlichen Praxis gehört es, dem Feind die Frauen abzujagen und zu schwängern. Das tut auch der Clanführer Yesukhei (Naoki Hosaka), der die schöne Hoelun (Mayu...
Teresa Teng was born in Tienyang, a village in Yunlin Country, Taiwan to a mainlander family originating from Hebei province. She was educated at Ginling Girl's High School.
In 1968, she became famous after giving a performance on a popular music pr...
The story takes place in Japan during the Sengoku period, or the Warring States period. Forty-eight major demons, known as majins (lit. demon gods), sense the impending birth of a powerful human, who will grow up to be the vanquisher of demonkind...
