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The dream of Tokugawa Ieyasu has come true together with his son Hidetada he rules all over Japan

In the closing days of WWII, remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain death by starvation

A pair of hard boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite litera

Ryunosuke awakens in the forest having no more idea what happened that previous night, as hed been drunk amp hallucinatory He is surrounded by corpses amp can surmise its his own handiwork

Sakimori Kagami plays a VRMMORPG called Arch Earth Online He is a veteran player with the name and appearance similar to an elderly bearded wizard from a certain book about a ring One day he purchases an appearance change item as a

Hana is an ordinary high school girl One day, she dreams of a little girl who lived during the Sengoku era When she wakes up, Hana is taken by a mysterious government agency run by people who are convinced her dreams can save th

When we last saw the intrepid ninja Ishikawa Goemon Raizo Ichikawa, he was about to be boiled alive But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill With the help of the enigmatic Hattori Hanzo, Goemon lives to s

In the Wars closing days, when a conscience driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk

Ken Kasugai has been deserted by his wife, because he was absorbed in a game One day, missing child robot Tang appears in front of him

As change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of respect for their leader and because he wants to live and die as a samurai However, as his involvement goes, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict

Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabatas story The Old Capital

A dark satire of a contemporary Japan still exhausted from the aftermath of war, hunger, poverty and unemployment And just as its people are recovering, there is a threat during these Cold War years of renewed militarism and rear

A team of samurai warriors team up to defeat a shape changing, supernatural creature

The hero avenges a band of samurai whose master was unceremoniously assassinated for seeking justice and better conditions for the citizens The city shall burn for the elites greed

Just when you think Kyoshiros life cant get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming that he did it Tracking down the real culprit willtake him along a twisted trai

Kon Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, creating a record of observations that range from the expansive to the intimate

A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs hes in contact with

An unknowing Sudou Kaname is invited to try out a new mysterious mobile app game called Darwins Game, but later realizes that hes in for more than hes bargained for when he finds out that theres no way to quit the game

Evil Queen Himiko and her army invade a small rural province in order to kill a Phoenix in order to achieve immortality, a young boy survives and goes on an adventure to amend the injustices

During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto, samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate, were causing havoc in the new capital city of Edo Opposing them was Banzui in Chobei,whose sole aim was to save Edo from the hatamoto as their

A home care nurses relationship with the family she has spent years working for is threatened when her nephew is arrested for kidnapping their daughter

Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of Yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his brilliant talent in gambling

Mami is 36 and unmarried, but with a job she loves and great friends, does she really need a man in her life to find happiness

This film of the sleepy eyed ronin series has the hero talked into escorting a precious religious artifact to Kyoto, Japan A sect of Christian swordsmen are lying in wait to steal the statuette What does it take for the reluctan

Haruko is a single mother She has an unusual living arrangement She lives with her son Riku, her friend Aiko and Aikos boyfriend Sorao One day, Yuko stays at Harukos house to attend an art institute for the summer Yuko is th

Kosuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder Then some murders happen Kindaichi must find out about the past in o

Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three wanderers who travel through feudal Japan selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls

Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is a bad idea

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishu Hanaoka 1760 1835 Hanaoka developed a herbal general anesthetic, Tsusensan, some fort

In a remake of a well known Japanese mystery, a man in Kobe does not have a family He receives a visitor who is a researcher one day who has noticed that the man has a well off family in Okayama This village is called Yatsuhakam

The life of Kinuyo Tanaka, who has played in many Kenji Mizoguchis films

Eight film artists from different countries are given carte blanche to make a collection of short documentaries on the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, offering unexpected, original and often humorous perspectives

A down and out school teacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman

A web of deceit, adultery and greed manifests in Kon Ichikawas remake of his own 1976 hit about a murder investigation that reveals years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret

Based on a centuries old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter Not the same as the original tale, though, in which the girl was a fairy from the mo

The cat of the title roams around the house of a poor schoolteacher in the late 19th century, observing the goings on of the teacher and his neighbors