Keyword Jidaigeki
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1954
Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai8.46 1954 HD
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...
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2021
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning7.68 2021 HD
Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who...
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2021
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final7.70 2021 HD
In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their...
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2012
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins7.50 2012 HD
In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.
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2014
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno7.61 2014 HD
Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto...
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1961
Yojimbo
Yojimbo8.10 1961 HD
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...
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2014
Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends7.70 2014 HD
Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final...
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1950
Rashomon
Rashomon8.10 1950 HD
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of...
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2010
13 Assassins
13 Assassins7.30 2010 HD
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord...
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1962
Harakiri
Harakiri8.40 1962 HD
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a...
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1958
The Hidden Fortress
The Hidden Fortress7.90 1958 HD
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...
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1957
Throne of Blood
Throne of Blood7.90 1957 HD
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the...
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1980
Kagemusha
Kagemusha7.80 1980 HD
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...
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2002
The Twilight Samurai
The Twilight Samurai7.80 2002 HD
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles...
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1964
Onibaba
Onibaba7.70 1964 HD
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever...
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1953
Ugetsu
Ugetsu7.98 1953 HD
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...
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1962
Sanjuro
Sanjuro7.94 1962 HD
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...
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1965
Red Beard
Red Beard8.10 1965 HD
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
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2011
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai7.20 2011 HD
A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a...
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1962
The Tale of Zatoichi
The Tale of Zatoichi7.30 1962 HD
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring...
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1978
The Unfettered Shogun
The Unfettered Shogun8.10 1978 HD
Set in the 18th century, the show follows the Shogun Yoshimune, who likes to disguise himself as a low-ranking samurai and go into his capital of Edo...
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2024
Shōgun
Shōgun8.52 2024 HD
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council...
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1989
Onihei Hankachō
Onihei Hankachō8.20 1989 HD
Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.
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2005
Yoshitsune
Yoshitsune8.50 2005 HD
Yoshitsune is a Japanese television drama series originally broadcast between 9 January and 11 December 2005, with a three-part special compilation...
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2019
Dororo
Dororo8.56 2019 HD
A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned...
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2024
Dear Radiance
Dear Radiance8.80 2024 HD
Murasaki Shikibu (Yoshitaka Yuriko), the heroine of this story, wrote the bestseller 'The Tale of Genji,' transcending a thousand years during the...
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1998
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
Tokugawa Yoshinobu1 1998 HD
The 37th NHK Taiga Drama is Tokugawa Yoshinobu. The series focuses on the life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and final ruler of the Tokugawa...
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2010
Ryōmaden
Ryōmaden9.00 2010 HD
Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of...
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1982
Matsudaira Ukon Jikencho
Matsudaira Ukon Jikencho1 1982 HD
In this gripping period drama, Matsudaira Ukon, the younger brother of the 11th Tokugawa Shogun Ienari, lives in the city as Yabutaro, a doctor in...
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1987
Lethal Three
Lethal Three10.00 1987 HD
A wandering samurai, ronin, and ninja; meet by chance repeatedly and reluctantly team up to solve the problems of innocent villagers along the way.
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2022
The 13 Lords of the Shogun
The 13 Lords of the Shogun8.10 2022 HD
Following the ascension to power of Taira no Kiyomori, the Minamoto clan is exiled. Minamoto no Yoritomo meets Masako, the sister of Hōjō Yoshitoki...
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2008
Atsuhime
Atsuhime9.20 2008 HD
The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa...
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2013
Kumokiri Nizaemon
Kumokiri Nizaemon7.30 2013 HD
During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo,...
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1979
The 47 Ronins of Ako
The 47 Ronins of Ako1 1979 HD
Set in the eighteenth century, during the reign of the fifth Tokugawa shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. Akō-han is demolished by the Tokugawa shogunate....
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1990
As If In Flight
As If In Flight6.00 1990 HD
Historical drama about the life of Saigō Takamori and his involvement with the Meiji Restoration.
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2007
Kagerou no Tsuji
Kagerou no Tsuji1 2007 HD
Sakazaki Iwane is a ronin who spends idle days in Edo. Until a few months ago, he was a promising son and successor to a powerful family in Bungo. He...
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2003
Ooku
Ooku8.00 2003 HD
The mini-series revolves around the harem of a shogun in the Edo Period in Japan. The women jostle and compete with one another and with their lord...
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2023
What Will You Do, Ieyasu?
What Will You Do, Ieyasu?7.70 2023 HD
The drama series depicts the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616). Takechiyo (who later becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu) was born...
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2012
Taira no Kiyomori
Taira no Kiyomori7.80 2012 HD
Villain or hero, Taira no Kiyomori changed Japanese history forever 900 years ago. Without ever knowing his real father, Kiyomori was raised as a...
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1966
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Minamoto no Yoshitsune1 1966 HD
The chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late Heian and early Kamakura general of the Minamoto clan of...