Movies

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

This is the story of a samurai who falls on hard times due to misunderstandings and follows the plots of his enemies.

After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent...

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

While attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets and falls in love with Pierre Le Beau, a diplomatic...

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

The Vermilion Pencil is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn, and produced and distributed by Robertson–Cole. It is based...

A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second...

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

The Outside Woman is a lost 1921 American comedy film directed by Sam Wood and written by Douglas Bronston.

In medieval Japan, a brutal and corrupt magistrate is planning to kill the child who is about to become the heir to the estate and position of the...

Japanese war film.

Period film from 1934.

Japanese horror movie from 1929.

The doomed love story between a young courtesan and a samurai, in Kyoto.