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A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Anne Watanabe

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career....

Genre: Animation

Cast: Miyoko Shoji

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Kakunoshin Yanagida (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) was a samurai, but he was forced out of the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived in poverty with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Leading an expedition in Germany, Kougami unseals the resting place of one of the alchemists that created the Core Medals in an effort to retrieve a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shu Watanabe

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished...

Genre: Action

Cast: Junichi Okada

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeru Satoh

A shogun's eldest son must do whatever it takes to survive a series of attempts on his life. He receives much-needed aid from seven warriors who are...

Genre: History

Cast: Ken Ogata

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He...

Genre: History

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries....

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Gabimaru reigns as the strongest and most ruthless assassin in his village. But now finds himself on death row—with only one way out: retrieve...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Chiaki Kobayashi

Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Maya Erskine

It is currently the Taiheimeji era, during the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate. In this era, breasts mean everything. If you have breasts, you are...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Minako Kotobuki

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryohei Suzuki

During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toru Tezuka

The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rumi Matsumto

The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin,"...

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Noriyuki Higashiyama

The historical novel series depicts Heizou Hasegawa, who metes justice on wrongdoers and supervises the crackdown on arsonists and robbers in Japan's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenyu Horiuchi

Fumi becomes Genzui Kusaka’s wife. During the turbulent times of the closing days for the Tokugawa shogunate, she lives positively and tries to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mao Inoue

The drama series depicts the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616). Takechiyo (who later becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu) was born...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Matsumoto

Yae no Sakura is a 2013 Japanese television series. It is the 52nd NHK taiga drama. The story focuses on Niijima Yae, who is portrayed by Haruka...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruka Ayase

It depicts how the winner, the Satsuma Clan, and the loser, the Aizu Clan, survive through the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration in their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

In an alternative feudal Japan, a strange disease that only affects males caused a massive population reduction, leaving females to fill the vacant...

Genre: Drama

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The Shogunate is in its final years, and war is fast approaching. When Yojiro Akizuki, a dark and mysterious mercenary, nears something supernatural...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Daisuke Namikawa

The 38th NHK Taiga Drama is Genroku Ryoran. The "Forty-seven Loyal Samurai" is one of the most enduring and best loved stories of Japan's history....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

In an alternate history where the male population is nearly decimated, eligible men serve as concubines to the woman shogun inside the walls of the...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Mamoru Miyano

The mini-series revolves around the harem of a shogun in the Edo Period in Japan. The women jostle and compete with one another and with their lord...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miho Kanno

Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichikawa Ebizo XI