Movies: Jidaigeki

  • 2022
    The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

    The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai (2022)

    The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

    7.12022HD

    In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of Nagaoka, dreamt of independence from the restraints of vassalship. Despite his progressive views and his desire for his estate to remain ne...

    The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
  • 1990
    Heaven and Earth

    Heaven and Earth (1990)

    Heaven and Earth

    6.21990HD

    Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry. Younger and less brutal, Kageto...

    Heaven and Earth
  • 2018
    Killing

    Killing (2018)

    Killing

    7.32018HD

    In Edo period Japan, a lone ronin lives in a village helping the farmers tend to their land. One day, a group of outlaw swordsmen enter the village....

    Killing
  • 2005
    Shinobi: Heart Under Blade

    Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (2005)

    Shinobi: Heart Under Blade

    6.52005HD

    Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take place between the five best shinobi from each village....

    Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
  • 2016
    Samurai Hustle Returns

    Samurai Hustle Returns (2016)

    Samurai Hustle Returns

    6.62016HD

    Masaatsu Naito successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way home, he hears that an insurrection by peasants has taken place in his hometown of Yunagaya. Masaatsu Naito knows that it is a counterattack by Matsu...

    Samurai Hustle Returns
  • 2016
    Sanada 10 Braves

    Sanada 10 Braves (2016)

    Sanada 10 Braves

    7.62016HD

    Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, "Sanada Ten Braves" follows 10 members of a ninja group who all serve under samurai warrior Yukimura Sanada....

    Sanada 10 Braves
  • 1969
    Tenchu!

    Tenchu! (1969)

    Tenchu!

    71969HD

    A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage....

    Tenchu!
  • 1977
    Ballad of Orin

    Ballad of Orin (1977)

    Ballad of Orin

    7.11977HD

    A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her....

    Ballad of Orin
  • 1968
    Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

    Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968)

    Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

    6.41968HD

    A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back. But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 100 Ghost Stories ceremony without the closing clea...

    Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
  • 1968
    Kill!

    Kill! (1968)

    Kill!

    71968HD

    A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living a...

    Kill!
  • 2018
    Falling Camellia

    Falling Camellia (2018)

    Falling Camellia

    8.22018HD

    During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct of his leader. Years after, his dying wife wish was for him to go back to his clan....

    Falling Camellia
  • 2009
    Kamui

    Kamui (2009)

    Kamui

    6.12009HD

    A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family....

    Kamui
  • 2007
    Tsubaki Sanjuro

    Tsubaki Sanjuro (2007)

    Tsubaki Sanjuro

    6.82007HD

    "Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, faster, subtler sword, talking and perception. He uses them to settle the trouble and uses them good!...

    Tsubaki Sanjuro
  • 1968
    Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare

    Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare (1968)

    Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare

    6.11968HD

    When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him....

    Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare
  • 1957
    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)

    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

    7.21957HD

    Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for ...

    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
  • 1969
    Samurai Banners

    Samurai Banners (1969)

    Samurai Banners

    7.51969HD

    Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convin...

    Samurai Banners
  • 1973
    Miyamoto Musashi

    Miyamoto Musashi (1973)

    Miyamoto Musashi

    7.11973HD

    In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Koji...

    Miyamoto Musashi
  • 2013
    The Kiyosu Conference

    The Kiyosu Conference (2013)

    The Kiyosu Conference

    6.82013HD

    After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. The conference would become Japan's first group made political...

    The Kiyosu Conference
  • 1989
    Rikyu

    Rikyu (1989)

    Rikyu

    7.51989HD

    Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord, unifying the country....

    Rikyu
  • 2010
    Sakurada Gate Incident

    Sakurada Gate Incident (2010)

    Sakurada Gate Incident

    7.72010HD

    Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events....

    Sakurada Gate Incident