The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding

A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza.

1967-06-28 | ja

The Hidden Fortress

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

1958-12-28 | ja

Bored Hatamoto Appears in Sendai

Bored Hatamoto film #3

1931-07-09 | ja

Bored Hatamoto Returns to Edo

Bored Hatamoto film #4

1931-12-31 | ja

Bored Hatamoto on a Rampage

Bored Hatamoto film #5

1933-08-10 | ja

Bored Hatamoto Judges 100,000-koku

Bored Hatamoto film #7

1935-02-08 | ja

Bored Hatamoto on Mt. Fuji

Bored Hatamoto film #8

1937-01-05 | ja

Bored Hatamoto Enters the Mountain of Treasure

Bored Hatamoto film #9

1938-04-14 | ja

Bored Hatamoto: The Demon of Chinatown

Bored Hatamoto movie #12

1951-09-07 | ja

Bored Hatamoto Passes By

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

1953-01-22 | ja

Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls

Bored Hatamoto movie #15

1954-01-03 | ja

Bored Hatamoto: Mysterious Crimson Tower

Bored Hatamoto film #21

1957-01-15 | ja

Kubi

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.

2023-11-23 | ja

Zatoichi

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

2003-09-06 | ja

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

1954-04-26 | ja

The Tale of Zatoichi

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring town's smaller gang is brewing.

1962-04-18 | ja

The Tale of Zatoichi Continues

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love.

1962-10-12 | ja

Ran

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an ageing warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

1985-06-01 | ja

Sanjuro

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

1962-01-01 | ja

Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma

1986-01-25 | ja