Period Drama Movies

A story about a spear master’s spiritual and martial discipline.

In the 16th century, young and ambitious Portuguese navigator Fernão de Magalhães rebels against the power of King Manuel I, who...

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.

A lord explores the lives of common people.

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have...

Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa...

An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep out the criminals from the town on his...

Japanese film.

The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie...

1959 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post...

Japanese film.

A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.

Part of the Shûhei Fujisawa New Drama Series.

1732, in the era of Yoshimune Tokugawa. West Japan suffers from a severe famine. Three years after wards, it appeared as though calm had been...

A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.

Jess Franco film about a woman returning home from an insane asylum only to discover her husband is now living with a man. The two men eventually...

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.