Shishio has set sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the Meiji government and return Japan to chaos, carrying Kaoru with him. In order to stop him in time, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
At one glance, Sawagura Nobuko is a unsociable dumpy looking housekeeper. However, she is actually a very beautiful and classy lady, but due to a traumatic experience, she now disguises her good looks behind nerdy black-rimmed glasses and frumpy look...
Nine people are locked in a secret room. The nine people are complete strangers. From a speaker, "Werewolf killed and ate the village people" comes out. Blood splatters from a man's neck. The eight remaining people panic.
A man in a mask then appear...
Akiho Takeda (Eikura Nana) is assigned to #3 investigation team for The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. On her first day at work, a burglary takes place at a jewelry store in Shibuya. The case though is taken by the #1 investigation team which ...
Jiro Shiba (Jiro Sato) has lived with his parents for all of his 38 years. One day, he gets out of his comfort zone due to his mother's strategy. He finds a job at a pet shop. Jiro doesn't find change easy and has difficulties adjusting at his new jo...
After more than four hundred years of war between the Shinobi warriors of the Manjidani Koga and Tsubagakure Iga clans, the Lord Hattori Hanzou decrees that they must live in peace. Both clans live hidden in the woods and mountain without confrontati...
Matabe Ijiri is the tough general of the small region known as Kasuga in Sengoku-era Japan. His nickname is "Ijiri," which means literally ghost and he strikes fear in many people. Matabe is in love with with the Princess Renheme, who also shares fee...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The movie revolves around an elementary school, where a girl called Mika disappears mysteriously after following the sound of laughter into the bathroom. The rumors of the school being haunted, strange things happening around 4:44 AM and the missing ...
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 pro...
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...
in 2003,an experimentai force field developed bu rei kanzaki(kyoka suzuki)failed to work as expected - it sent the armored division testing it back to the year 1547,where they are promptly attacked bu a local army.two and a half years later,in the pr...
Young samurai Mimura Shinnojo(Takuya Kimaru)has a fairly happy and stable life with his loving wife kayo(Dan Rei).All This comes crashing down,however,when Shinnojo as the lord's food taster,eats poisoned shellfish and become blind.Distressed by his ...