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 Final7.72 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: Origins7.51 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Blood7.92 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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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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1954
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto7.15 1954 HD
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
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1968
Kuroneko
Kuroneko7.40 1968 HD
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai...
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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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2003
When the Last Sword Is Drawn
When the Last Sword Is Drawn7.50 2003 HD
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town...
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1962
Sanjuro
Sanjuro7.90 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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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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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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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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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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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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2009
Mission To Kill
Mission To Kill7.00 2009 HD
Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin,"...
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1991
Taiheiki
Taiheiki1 1991 HD
The drama centers on Ashikaga Takauji's rise to power, overthrowing the Kamakura shogunate and eventually establishing the Ashikaga shogunate.
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2006
Love and Glory
Love and Glory6.80 2006 HD
Kazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the fief of Tosa on the island of Shikoku. He served...
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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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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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2001
Hojo Tokimune
Hojo Tokimune1 2001 HD
The 40th NHK Taiga Drama is Hojo Tokimune. It tells the dramatic and turbulent life of young shikken Hojo Tokimune, and his successful defense of...
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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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1995
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune1 1995 HD
The drama is depicting the life and times in 17th and 18th century Japan during the rule of the eighth shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune.
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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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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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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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1981
Onna Taikoki
Onna Taikoki1 1981 HD
Focusing on the life of Nene, the good wife who supported Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the world of the Warring States and the rise and fall of the Toyotomi...
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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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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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1994
Hana no Ran
Hana no Ran1 1994 HD
The story takes place during the Muromachi period of Ancient Japan, in the midst of the Ōnin War. The main character in the series is Tomiko Hino, a...