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In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor....
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A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. B...
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Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her w...
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In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka S...
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Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides i...
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Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending t...
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A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws...
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Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golde...
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From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten is...
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Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in th...
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A gripping historical drama full of suspense and a mysterious bewitching mood. A puzzle of a turbule...
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Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after be...
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During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemo...
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Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes ...
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This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh a...
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A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person....
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In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled y...
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When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...
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Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a vio...
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A scientist successfully creates an invisibility serum, only to be kidnapped by a gang of thugs who ...
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A frenzy of goodwill, tears, laughter, and a lot of fun, caused by thirteen children under the guise...
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The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develo...
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Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag...
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In this Japanese retelling of Cinderella, Okuro (Takayama) is the unfortunate stepdaughter of a fam...
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Suzunosuke faces perhaps his wildest foes. This evil gang is lead by a one-eyed birdman and other de...
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One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds...
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It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one ...
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In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai...
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Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' i...
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The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 book...
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In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s...
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One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she oft...
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Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love...
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Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ...
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Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu i...
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Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple i...
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[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrin...
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Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being a...
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A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have thei...
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Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw o...
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Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot ...
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Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's...
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Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to ave...
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This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi....
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An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years ...
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Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer...
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Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven...
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Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time ...
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When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival ga...
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Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the T...
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Two woodcutters spend the night in a mountain lodge after being caught in a snowstorm. A female spir...
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Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story....
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This period thriller concerns a very famous cat known as the "monster cat of Nabeshima". This cat, a...
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A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji...
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In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...
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The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to...
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Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...
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The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...
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Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no ide...
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A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat...
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From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from...
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The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("...
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During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Tak...
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[Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. B...
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[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This fi...
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Iemon Fukasawa, a masterless samurai, marries Oiwa but is repulsed by a dark mark on her face. He de...
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