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Harakiri
8.6

Harakiri

Sep. 15, 1962

Harakiri

Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate’s breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An ...
Hara-Kiri
8.6

Hara-Kiri

Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate’s breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An ...
Silence
7.2

Silence

Dec. 22, 2016

Silence

Two Jesuit priests, Sebastião Rodrigues and Francis Garrpe, travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned ...
Why Not?
6.9

Why Not?

Jan. 08, 1981

Why Not?

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry “Ee ja nai ka” (“Why not?”) in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in ...
Tokugawa: Woman’s Genealogy
5.7
Adult

Tokugawa: Woman’s Genealogy

A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines. Release: History of the ...
The 47 Ronin
7.4

The 47 Ronin

Dec. 08, 1941

The 47 Ronin

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 ...
Sekigahara
6.3

Sekigahara

Aug. 26, 2017

Sekigahara

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Army of the East ...