Keyword Jidaigeki
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1954
Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai8.50 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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1950
Rashomon
Rashomon8.08 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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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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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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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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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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2008
ICHI
ICHI6.70 2008 HD
Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind...
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1954
The Crucified Lovers
The Crucified Lovers7.70 1954 HD
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...
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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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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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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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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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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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2017
Sekigahara
Sekigahara6.90 2017 HD
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated...
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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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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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1999
Taboo
Taboo6.50 1999 HD
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of...
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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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1967
Samurai Rebellion
Samurai Rebellion8.20 1967 HD
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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1980
Shadow Warriors
Shadow Warriors8.00 1980 HD
Shadow Warriors is a Japanese television jidaigeki show featuring Sonny Chiba that ran for four seasons in the early 1980s. Chiba played different...
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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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1987
Masamune Shogun
Masamune Shogun9.20 1987 HD
Broadcast TV drama NHK broadcast on January 4 to December 13, 1987 (Showa 62). In the questionnaire survey conducted by NHK, it is shining in the...
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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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2007
Samurai Banners
Samurai Banners7.50 2007 HD
Fūrin Kazan was the 46th NHK Taiga drama beginning on January 7, 2007. It was aired throughout 2007. The four characters from left to right are...
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2018
Segodon
Segodon8.20 2018 HD
Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima...
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2013
Yae's Sakura
Yae's Sakura7.70 2013 HD
Yae no Sakura is a 2013 Japanese television series. It is the 52nd NHK taiga drama. The story focuses on Niijima Yae, who is portrayed by Haruka...
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1971
Haru no Sakamichi
Haru no Sakamichi1 1971 HD
The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.
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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...
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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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1988
Takeda Shingen
Takeda Shingen7.50 1988 HD
There was a very turbulent time in the warring period in the history, and Takeda Shingen is consider one of the great warlord among many other.