Satomi Oka

Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the ...

In the third installment of Yoshikawa’s novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on ...

In the fourth installment, Musashi’s potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental ...

Second live action “Barefoot Gen” sequel.

These are the first two parts of the popular series in which a young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to ...

The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of ...

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During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. This left a large number of unemployed ...

Kamio a mistreated samurai clerk of Edo Castle and ronin (“Sir Quarrel”) Ibara, take up a vendetta against 17 wicked castle men.

The Purple-Hooded Man, Japan’s version of Robin Hood, tries to uncover a corruption scandal in Edo era Japan.

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.

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 ...

A skilled assassin’s services are called upon to put an end to the ugly turf battle between two yakuza families, Mitsuwa and Aikawa. Forced ...

The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.

After a salary-man’s fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and ...