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Gin Nikan
Japanese Drama - 2014, 9 episodes7.7
Set in Tenma, Osaka. Matsukichi is the son of a samurai. His father is killed because of a grudge and Matsukichi is also in danger. At this time, Wasuke, the owner of the store Ikawa, saves Matsukichi's life. He then…
Yoidore Kotoji
Japanese Drama - 2013, 13 episodes7.7
Akame Kotoji became a wandering samurai in order to avenge his lord and the uproar over the stolen lances, settles down at a tenement house in Edo that Kujiya Shouemon owns with the intention of spending the rest of…
Daifugou Doushin Season 2
Japanese Drama - 2021, 9 episodes7.7
Edo Castle is surrounded by a disturbing atmosphere. A general without a child fell seriously ill. Amid the battle for succession, the shogun calls for Amari Bizen no Kami and summons his younger brother Yukichiyo, a…
Soroban Samurai Kaze no Ichibei
Japanese Drama - 2018, 9 episodes7.7
It is the Bunsei era (1818 – 1830). While the finances of samurai families were tight, people would entrust their household budget on a half-yearly basis to a roving steward who is the modern-day accountant and management…
Oyari Haishaku - Yoidore Kotoji Tomegaki
Japanese Special - 2013, 1 episodes7.7
Akame Kotoji, a shabby, middle-aged low-ranking samurai is a stableman at the suburban villa of Narushima Michihisa, the feudal lord of the desperately poor Kuju domain. One day, he downs litres of alcohol in a drinking…
Nuke Mairu - Onna 3-nin Ise Mairi
Japanese Drama - 2018, 8 episodes7.7
Ino, the daughter of a restaurant owner; Shika, the beautiful, dignified wife of a samurai; and Chou, the proprietress of a sundries shop were the ultimate trio of Bakurocho in Edo in their youth. Now they are all over…
Onmitsu Kenshi
Japanese Drama - 1962, 13 episodes7.7
The adventures of a roving samurai detective/spy, Akikusa Shintaro whose real identity is Matsudaira Nobuchiyo - the older half-brother of Tokugawa Ienari, the 11th Tokugawa shogun, who is still a minor. Because he is…
Chushingura
Japanese Movie - 19627.7
A young lord attempts to combat the corruption endemic to the Shogunate bureaucracy, only to be placed in an impossible conflict of duties. He refuses to pay the "customary" bribe expected by a Chancellor sent from the…
Kokichi no Nyoubou
Japanese Drama - 2019, 8 episodes7.3
The Tenpo period is near the end of the Edo period. The poor banner, Katsuie's wife, Nobu, is struggling with money every day, but she also keeps an innocent smile. Regardless of your status, there is no separation among…
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Japanese Movie - 19727.7
A samurai named Ogami Itto gets stripped of his title of the Shogun’s executioner and is branded an outlaw after being framed for treason. When his wife brutally murdered, he begins a journey of bloody vengeance with…
Musashi
Japanese Drama - 2003, 49 episodes7.6
Many are familiar with "The Book of Five Rings" which was written by Miyamoto Musashi in the 17th century. Musashi's treatise on strategy and the way to lead instantly became the business executive's bible when the translated…
Basara: The Princess Goh
Japanese Movie - 19927.6
In Japan during the late 1600s, ruler Hideyoshi Toyotomi replaces his newly deceased master of tea ceremonies with the young, grandiose Oribe Furuta. Gardener Usu and Hideyoshi's rebellious daughter, Princess Goh, join…
Nezumi, Edo wo Hashiru 2
Japanese Drama - 2016, 8 episodes7.6
It is the Bunka-Bunsei period. While the culture of the townspeople matures and flourishes, administration by the close advisers of the 11th Tokugawa shogun Ienari is rampant and characterized by a debasement of public…
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Japanese Movie - 19727.6
A distrustful Ogami Itto continues on his path of blood by working as an assassin-for-hire. On the way to his next assignment, to murder a traitor, he faces off against a group of female ninjas of the Yagyu clan.
An Actor's Revenge
Japanese Movie - 19637.6
Three men, Sansai Dobe, Kawaguchiya and Hiromiya are responsible for the deaths of seven-year-old Yukitaro's mother and father. Yukitarō is adopted and brought up by Kikunojo Nakamura, the actor-manager of an Osaka…
Baian: The Assassin
Japanese Drama - 1990, 8 episodes7.6
TV series about a doctor during the Edo period who uses his acupuncturist skills to both cure and kill. Dr. Baian is essentially a good man who accepts the money he receives for killing the bad so that he can heal the…
Samurai's Promise
Japanese Movie - 20187.6
Uryu Shinbei appeals to his boss’s corruption, and his appeal is denied. He is kicked out of the han. Shortly afterwards, his wife, Shino, collapses from a disease and dies. Right before her death, she tells Uryu Shinbei,…
Swords in the Moonlight 1
Japanese Movie - 19577.6
Set in the chaotic and transitory late Edo Period, the story follows the nihilistic antihero Ryunosuke Tsukue, a psychotic samurai who senselessly massacres a helpless pilgrim in the opening scene. From this point on…
Swords in the Moonlight 2
Japanese Movie - 19587.6
In the second episode of the trilogy, samurai Ryunosuke’s circumstances change: now blinded, he struggles to make a living as a mendicant flute-player. Otoyo, a woman whose husband was killed by Ryunosuke, works to…
Swords in the Moonlight 3
Japanese Movie - 19597.6
In this final episode, Ryunosuke, a psychotic samurai, is in Kofu (west of the Japanese capital of Edo, as Tokyo was then known), where he is employed to test a new sword each evening by killing a passerby. But the ghosts…
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