AFTER THE FLOWERS - Color - 107 minutes - Another Excellent Samurai Saga based on a short story by the late Shuhei Fujisawa (The Twilight Samurai, Love and Honor, et al.) Japan, late Edo period. More

BUSHIDO - Color - 102 minutes - During the reign of the 8th shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune, the western part of Japan suffered a severe famine in the year 1732. Three years later, as things seemed to be More

ASSASSINATION ORDERS - Color - 91 minutes - Another superb performance by major star Takahashi Hideki as a graceful ronin swords-man highlights this violent tale of old Japan. The ronin, Sako Kanbei More

VENGEANCE IS A GREAT BUSINESS - Color - 88 minutes - Veteran filmmaker Kihachi Okamoto revives his similarly named 1960s television series about happy-go-lucky avenger-for-hire Sukeroku who prefers to More

THE LOWLY RONIN: THE SPRAY OF BLOOD - Color - 91 minutes - Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made More

DESTINY'S SON - Color - 75 minutes - The same year he directed the first of the Zatoichi series, Kenji Misumi directed this tale based on a famous novel by Renzaboro Shibata. With an eye for More

THE CHRISTIAN REVOLT - B&W - 101 minutes - In 1637, the Tokugawa Shogunate mandated religious orders to severely restrict and contain the spread of Christianity. In Kyushu, Shimabara and Amakusa, the More

DATE MASAMUNE: THE ONE-EYED DRAGON - Color - 2 Part Movie - 240 minutes - Young Masamune (Takahashi Hideki) upon learning of the death of Nobunaga decides that he is the man to fill those sainted More

TOKUGAWA IEYASU - Color - 2 Parts - 260 minutes - From his early days as Matsudaira Motoyasu through his rise to the most powerful man in Japan as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa Shoguns, More

MAGISTRATE MAYUZUMI - Color - 149 minutes - In a story set during the latter days of the Tokugawa Era, the tensions rise between the 'royalists' and those struggling to uphold the Shogunate. The More

OKITA SOJI THE LAST SWORDSMAN - Color - 92 minutes - During the last turbulent days of the Edo Era, OKITA SOJI is a member and Captain of the first troop of the notorious SHINSENGUMI More

THE BETRAYAL- B&W - 87 minutes - An absolutely fabulous film, featuring an extended fight scene that is the best since SWORD OF DOOM! Far and away Raizo Ichikawa's best fighting ever!!! He plays an More

OWL'S CASTLE - Color - 138 minutes - As the great military commander Hideyoshi was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of NINJA Assassins, killing every More

THE BLACK HOOD - Color - 92 minutes - During the 1860's Japan was in a state of turmoil as various factions sought to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate. Along came a masked champion for justice; an More

THE FLOATING CASTLE - Color - 144 minutes -This award winning movie is loosely based on the siege of Oshi Castle, where Regent Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army of 20,000 was unable to defeat the castle's 500 More

SAMURAI FROM NOWHERE - B&W - 93 minutes - from "Ame Agaru" (written by Yamamoto Shugoro), the same novel that gave birth to AFTER THE RAIN, comes one of the greatest Samurai films of all More