Movies: Jidaigeki

  • 2021
    It's a Summer Film!

    It's a Summer Film! (2021)

    It's a Summer Film!

    7.42021HD

    Barefoot and her friends decide to make a samurai movie, gather a unique cast and staff for the production, and try to screen it at their school festival....

    It's a Summer Film!
  • 1972
    Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

    Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972)

    Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

    6.31972HD

    Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his superior officer's mistress, whom he suspects of havin...

    Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
  • 2004
    The Hidden Blade

    The Hidden Blade (2004)

    The Hidden Blade

    7.42004HD

    Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest...

    The Hidden Blade
  • 1989
    Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

    Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally (1989)

    Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

    6.41989HD

    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 inn...

    Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
  • 2017
    Sekigahara

    Sekigahara (2017)

    Sekigahara

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    The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of th...

    Sekigahara
  • 1962
    Chûshingura

    Chûshingura (1962)

    Chûshingura

    7.31962HD

    After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor....

    Chûshingura
  • 2017
    Mumon: The Land of Stealth

    Mumon: The Land of Stealth (2017)

    Mumon: The Land of Stealth

    6.52017HD

    Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-century mercenary. When the ninja council makes a power play to defeat the young Nobukatsu Oda struggling to step into his father’s warlord shoes as they ex...

    Mumon: The Land of Stealth
  • 1967
    Zatoichi's Cane Sword

    Zatoichi's Cane Sword (1967)

    Zatoichi's Cane Sword

    7.31967HD

    Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local gangsters attempt to kill him, and the adventure begins. It turns out a ...

    Zatoichi's Cane Sword
  • 1963
    13 Assassins

    13 Assassins (1963)

    13 Assassins

    7.51963HD

    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 attention to the crime, the matter is quickly hushed up. Not only will there be no punishment, but becau...

    13 Assassins
  • 1969
    Tenchu!

    Tenchu! (1969)

    Tenchu!

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    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!
  • 1967
    Zatoichi Challenged

    Zatoichi Challenged (1967)

    Zatoichi Challenged

    6.71967HD

    Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal porno...

    Zatoichi Challenged
  • 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

    7.11957HD

    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
  • 1964
    Assassination

    Assassination (1964)

    Assassination

    7.11964HD

    Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing polit...

    Assassination
  • 1973
    Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

    Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)

    Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

    6.31973HD

    Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead....

    Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
  • 2023
    Kubi

    Kubi (2023)

    Kubi

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    Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears....

    Kubi
  • 1974
    Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?

    Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? (1974)

    Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?

    5.91974HD

    Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers protection to a forward-thinking physician Genan Sugino who has defamed his ruler, discovers a pleasure ...

    Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
  • 1966
    Samurai Wolf

    Samurai Wolf (1966)

    Samurai Wolf

    7.21966HD

    This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send against him another samurai, named Sana, who is without ...

    Samurai Wolf
  • 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
  • 2007
    Kaidan

    Kaidan (2007)

    Kaidan

    6.22007HD

    Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the hand...

    Kaidan
  • 2010
    Sword of Desperation

    Sword of Desperation (2010)

    Sword of Desperation

    6.82010HD

    A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed t...

    Sword of Desperation