Top Cast
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Hideo Fujino
Saint Hakuun
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Masao Akizuki
Toki Seikurō (Younger Brother)
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Reikichi Kawamura
Lord Hineno, Governor of Bichu (A Saitō Retainer)
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Ichikawa Matsunosuke
Young Lord Toki Tarō Yorihide
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Hikaru Kicchôji
Tamon Mitsuharu (Seikurō’s Son)
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Shūichi Chiyoda
Momoha Sakon (Noh Performer)
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Yoshiko Kawada
Miyuki (Maid)
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Kinuyo Tanaka
Kaōgi (Courtesan)
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Kunimatsu Ogawa
Yoshiryū
Overview
Japanese silent jidaigeki from 1927.
Rating
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A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.
Kamui
In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.
Assassination
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers.
After the Rain
A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a hostile checkpoint.
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to rescue her.
Samurai Rebellion
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
Blood and Bones
A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
Scandalous Sex
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.