7.1
Samurai Banners
IMDb: 7.1 1969 165 min
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. ...
7.8
Humanity and Paper Balloons
IMDb: 7.8 1937 86 min
The story develops in the Tokugawa era of the 18th century, in a poor district of Tokyo, where impoverished samurai live from hand to mouth among ...
6.3
Miyamoto Musashi
IMDb: 6.3 1944 53 min
The first of five Musashi series, Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them swordsmanship ...
7.9
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
IMDb: 7.9 1972 96 min
A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been ...
7.4
The 47 Ronin
IMDb: 7.4 1941 223 min
Produced over a two-year period, Kenji Mizoguchi’s version of the oft-filmed Seika Mayama story The 47 Ronin was too big to be confined to ...
6.9
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
IMDb: 6.9 1969 122 min
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of ...
6.5
Blood End
IMDb: 6.5 1969 102 min
BLOOD END is one of the great unknown films from Japan’s golden era of the late 1960’s. Starring NAKADAI Tatsuya in one of his best ...
7.1
Priest of Darkness
IMDb: 7.1 1936 82 min
Based on a well-known Kabuki drama titled “Kochiyama to Naozamurai”, which Yamanaka distills into a masterpiece of jidaigeki (period ...
