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A young officer must choose between love and duty

This film of the sleepy eyed ronin series has the quite reluctant hero refuse to come to the assistance of a Japanese Christian in an age of both proselytizing and persecution, but later come around and render the services of his

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

For his 1st color film, Ichikawa did an Edo era story of two geishas scheming against each other for control of the Nihonbashi bridge area, and vying for the affections of a young doctor

Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drive

A writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son After settling into their new home, a neighbor arrives to welcome them and give them a breakdown of the local rules most important do not go outside when the isl

An all star cast from Daiei Film Company has made the ultimate Jirocho movie about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in the Tokaido area

Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides in a game of corruption, ambition, and double crosses The leader of the Kaga clan, who thinks he has killed his smuggling partner,

The story follows the life of Ryunosuke Tsukue, an amoral samurai and a master swordsman with an unorthodox style

Our anti hero discovers locals who are oppressed, held captive against their will For the swordsman to succeed, he first must wade through traps and assassins, and a few seductive maidens

The orphaned Makioka sisters look for a husband for their third sister, Yukiko, as the rebellious youngest sister, Taeko, is kept waiting her turn

A debt collector visits a gambling den in search of a gambler the gamblers wife and daughter are sick unknown to the debt collector he kills the gambler He learns more about his wife and family and forms a bond as a result h

A man has a wife and nine girlfriends, all ten of whom are fed up with his shameless polygamy and plot to kill him However, this is easier said than done

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood

An off beat comedy about 3 damejin useless persons, who dont work and spend their lives doing nothing They actually dont want to work When they hear in India one can live without working they take it seriously They begi

The legendary Forty seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku