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- A former assassin who has resolved to never kill again has his vow sorely tested.
- The movie follows 3 Japanese friends from embarking on Yamato, the world's largest battleship, until it's sunk 3 1/2 years later on April 7, 1945 on it's way to Okinawa to stop American advance at the end of WWII.
- Centuries ago, a samurai survives the massacre of 35,000 Christians and denounces God for ignoring the pleas of the believers. He sells his soul to the devil and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him on a murderous rampage.
- Following the murder of his mentor, rookie Defense Attorney Phoenix Wright must find the truth behind not only her death, but that of an unsolved case from 15 years prior.
- An executed samurai takes an existential journey throughout time, space and eternity in search of bloody vengeance.
- Kabukicho is a forgotten world. A place where people of different tongues and races meet, where they fight against each other to gain money, power and territory. The struggle which never ends. Based on a dangerous love story which unfolds a dangerous town.
- An American gunfighter is tasked with delivering a valuable scroll to a feudal lord in Japan, and becomes embroiled in a feud between the lord and his rival cousin over ownership of land owed to a young princess in their care.
- About the adventures of Rantaro and other ninja apprentices at an elite ninjutsu academy.
- Based on the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji. This film is set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throughout and actually composed mainly of one of the fictional stories she wrote, the tale of Genji. Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love and has a son to his stepmother. He falls in love often and has many wives whom are all completely subservient to him. Genji is played by a woman actress from the all-female Takarazuka theatre. The two interrelating stories are also interrupted occasionally by fantasimical musical clips from a past Japanese teen-idol, Seiko Matsuda.
- Young Tokiko works at a geisha house as a maid, waiting for her maiko practice (apprenticeship of geisha) to begin. The movie depicts detailed lifestyle of geishas at that time, showing their rules, loves, beauties and humanities.
- At the dusk of World War II Tokyo is a city of sordid atmosphere, tragic ambiance and daily misery. Satoko is nineteen. lives at home with her widowed mother and works at the local civil defense bureau. A more mature and married neighbour Ichikawa has avoided the dreadful fate of going to war and instead is around for Satoko to love. The inevitable love affair that follows helps Satoko truly become a woman and give reason to her life.
- Born with a silver spoon in his life, the child is nonetheless lonely and a misfit. His mate recognizes the feelings and predicts that when grown up his friend will be a great artist and popular with women. Moving to Tokyo the women come, as does everything else that the wanton lifestyle brings, but the man is still lonely despite a friendship with another of the same mind and a woman who could be his soul-mate.
- German soldiers are transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan after the First World War.
- A love triangle blooms between a team of three ninjas before tragedy strikes and forces them to reassess their clan's principles.
- The fourth installment in the Dead or Alive series continues in a similar vein of fighting game. Delivering another dose of combo heavy action set in a variety of highly interactive locations and new characters.
- When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
- How about conducting battle, but with flowers in lieu of weapons? There were monks who did ikebana, or Japanese flower arrangement, following a war. There was once an actually famous monk in Kyoto, Japan circa 1594 with exemplary ikebana skills. A shogun, or lord, invites him to do ikebana for him. Responding to the request the monk goes to Gifu castle, but a below average performance leads to shogun's wrath.
- Sen no Rikyu is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences upon the Japanese tea ceremony. With his elegant esthetics, Sen no Rikyu is favored by the most powerful man in Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi and becomes one of his closest advisors. Due to conflicts, Toyotomi Hideyoshi then orders Sen no Rikyu to commit seppuku.
- Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen player and woman of great elegance. Though not especially rich, she doles out money to street kids, in particular, a pretty young flower vendor named Oyuki, who becomes Aihara's godchild of sorts. Yet when a geisha (Reiko Takashima) from a rival red-light district insults Aihara and her brethren, she fights back. Soon an all-out geisha war looms. Dapper businessman and amateur scholar Tojiro Koga (Tetsuya Watari) appears on the scene and defuses tempers -- suggesting that difference be settled through a competition of artistic abilities. Smitten with her talent and mature beauty, Koga invites Aihara to record Nagasaki folk songs before they disappear forever.
- This movie depicts the life of the Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa, while incorporating CG animations to evoke the characters from his novels.
- An unfortunate low-ranking samurai Hikoshiro decides to pray in a small shrine and ask gods for help. Unfortunately he accidentally attracts the attention of gods of poverty, pestilence and death.
- The head of a psychological research institute and a lieutenant in the Japanese Air Force are both investigating a mysterious cult known only as 'Midori no Saru' (The Green Monkey). Members of this group have committed a string of violent suicide-attacks on military bases and public areas. Part of the mystery seems to involve a young child and an enormous Buddha statue outside Tokyo, but how could all these pieces possibly fit together?
- In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo. Katsu Kaishu (Hiroshi Tamaki) wants to avoid useless bloodshed and sends a peace envoy to Takamori Saigo, but Katsu Kaishu is unable to get a response from Takamori Saigo. One day, Katsu Kaishu meets high school teacher Mikako (Satomi Ishihara) and her student Masaya who is captivated by the shogunate. Mikako and her student Masaya tells Katsu Kaishu that they are from the future. Katsu Kaishu takes care of Mikako and her student Masaya, while Mikako hopes to go back to the future where she came from.
- A young Japanese boy's life is changed when his sister returns to the small island, full of eccentric characters, where he lives.
- In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her disability in order to save her family's sake business.
- The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where she learns how to cook. When she turns 18, she moves to Edo (today's Tokyo) where she opens her own restaurant.
- 853 refers to the precinct where Detective Shinnosuke Kamo used to work. However, this was before he accidentally shot a criminal in his custody. After that incident, Shinnosuke is reassigned to a smaller, rural jurisdiction. For ten years, he keeps his nose to the grind, continuing to do great investigative work despite the demotion to a smaller police precinct. Until one day, he is called back to put his detective skills to work again in the 853.
- A young samurai must choose between the life of the sword or quiet, family life.
- A two-part dramatization of the life of Sir Ernest Mason Satow, GCMG, PC. The two parts were titled: A Clash of Cultures and Witness to a Revolution.
- Historical drama set in the tumultuous Meiji period about Yamamuro Gunpei, who devoted his life to saving others, and his comrades. Directed by Tojo Masatoshi of 9/10. Born into a poor farming family in Okayama, Gunpei (Morioka Ryu) was adopted by pawnbroker's family at age nine and went off on his own at age fifteen. His dream of becoming a person who can help others leads him to Tokyo, where he encounters Christianity and becomes convinced that it is the best way to save others. He continues pursuing his own path, overcoming hardships and his own ambivalence along the way.
- Once upon a time in the Edo period, when samurai, ninja and geisha are very active. There is a town where zombies become rampant and has been turned into a hell. One day an eccentric ninja arrives at this town. He is very eccentric because he is carrying stupas instead of swords. A stupa is an offering for the dead to rest in peace. And he is looking for the meaning of life, while sending zombies spinning off into eternity. In time, he meets a geisha who survives. In desperate struggle being chased by zombies, she doesn't have an art fight. However, he saves her life with his overwhelming combat power, and they hide themselves in a row house and wait for quiet night.