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February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled Japan for 300 years They suspect a traitor i

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officer

Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely

Two ronin an ex samurai and an ex farmer get caught up in a local officials complex game of murder and betrayal

Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leaders bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same

This comedy portrays the everyday life of an ordinary salary man who uses himself as a model to write a novella

When Sergeant Okubos brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brothers killer The command is wiped out by Chinese forces and O

Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a red lions mane, a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the villages suffering caused by corrupt officials and businessmen

In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into Communist China to bring back the flag of a defeated enemy regiment

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place between captors and captive, to the difficulty and eventu