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  • Don’t Lose Your Head!

    Don’t Lose Your Head! (2024)

    Director
    KAWAI Hayato
    Cast
    Murotsuyoshi, NAGAYAMA Eita, KAWAGUCHI Haruna

    Samurai Hustle and Samurai Shifters screenplay writer Dobashi Akihiro adapts his own same-named novel for this samurai period comedy. The much-hated Kira Kozukenosuke is stabbed to death in Edo Castle. With their very survival on the line, the Kira ...

  • The Yin Yang Master Zero

    The Yin Yang Master Zero (2024)

    Director
    SATO Shimako
    Cast
    YAMAZAKI Kento, SOMETANI Shota, Nao

    Over a thousand years ago, during the Heian period of Japanese history, politics in the capital city of Heiankyo, present-day Kyoto, center on the Yin Yang Bureau, whose school trains the yin yang masters who defend the city from curses and other mal...

  • Sisam

    Sisam (2024)

    Director
    NAKAO Hiroyuki
    Cast
    Kanichiro, WADA Masato, SAHEL Rosa

    In the 17th century, early in the Edo Period of Japanese history, trade with the indigenous Ainu is the main source of income for the Matsumae clan. Kojiro, the son of a Matsumae clan retainer, and his older brother, Einosuke, are sent to Ezo for the...

  • Baian the Assassin, M.D. 2

    Baian the Assassin, M.D. 2 (2023)

    Director
    KAWAKE Shunsaku
    Cast
    TOYOKAWA Etsushi, KATAOKA Ainosuke, KANNO Miho

    Two films starring Toyokawa Etsushi adapt Ikenami Shotaro's series that rivals his "Onihei Hankacho" and "Kenkyaku Shobai" in popularity. Produced to commemorate the centennial of the great historical novelist's birth. Fujieda Baian (Toyokawa) is a ...

  • September 1923

    September 1923 (2023)

    Director
    MORI Tatsuya
    Cast
    IURA Arata, TANAKA Rena, NAGAYAMA Eita

    Drama about mob hysteria based on the 1923 Fukuda Village incident. Directed by Mori Tatsuya, known for the documentaries A and FAKE. The year is 1923. Sawada Tomokazu (Iura Arata) and his wife Shizuko (Tanaka Rena) leave Gyeongseong (Seoul at prese...

  • Mountain Woman

    Mountain Woman (2022)

    Director
    FUKUNAGA Takeshi
    Cast
    YAMADA Anna, MORIYAMA Mirai, NAGASE Masatoshi

    Drama inspired by folklorist Yanagida Kunio's famous book ‘Tales of Tono'. Directed and scripted by Fukunaga Takeshi, whose Ainu Moshir was highly acclaimed abroad. Tohoku in the late 18th century. Rin (Yamada Anna) lives in a village suffering from...

  • Baian the Assassin, M.D.

    Baian the Assassin, M.D. (2023)

    Director
    KAWAKE Shunsaku
    Cast
    TOYOKAWA Etsushi, KATAOKA Ainosuke, KANNO Miho

    Two films starring Toyokawa Etsushi adapt Ikenami Shotaro's series that rivals his "Onihei Hankacho" and "Kenkyaku Shobai" in popularity. Produced to commemorate the centennial of the great historical novelist's birth. Fujieda Baian (Toyokawa) is a ...

  • THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY

    THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY (2023)

    Director
    OTOMO Keishi
    Cast
    KIMURA Takuya, AYASE Haruka

    Historical epic commemorating Toei's 70th anniversary. A new perspective on the lives of Sengoku (warring states period) warlord Oda Nobunaga and his wife, Nohime. Directed by Otomo Keishi of the "Rurouni Kenshin" series. Nobunaga (Kimura Takuya) of...

  • BUSHIDO

    BUSHIDO (2024)

    Director
    SHIRAISHI Kazuya
    Cast
    KUSANAGI Tsuyoshi, KUNIMURA Jun, KIYOHARA Kaya

    Kakunoshin Yanagida, a ronin, is accused of a crime he does not commit and mourns his wife. He is forced to leave his hometown, the Hikone domain, and lives with his daughter, Okinu, in a poor tenement house in Edo. Even under such circumstances, he ...

  • KUBI

    KUBI (2023)

    Director
    KITANO Takeshi
    Cast
    KITANO Takeshi, NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, KASE Ryo

    Kitano Takeshi spent 30 years planning this Warring States period film, which depicts the "Honno-ji Incident" on an epic scale. The film had its world premiere at the 37th Cannes Film Festival. Oda Nobunaga (Kase Ryo), who is determined to unite the...

  • Dreaming of the Meridian Arc

    Dreaming of the Meridian Arc (2022)

    Director
    NAKANISHI Kenji
    Cast
    NAKAI Kiichi, MATSUYAMA Kenichi, KITAGAWA Keiko

    A film adaptation of the rakugo story, "The Tale of Ino Tadataka: The Road to Taiga", by storyteller Tatekawa Shinosuke. This drama spins a tale of Ino Tadataka, who completed a map of Japan in 1821, which is set in two different periods, the Edo pe...

  • SHIMAMORI

    SHIMAMORI (2022)

    Director
    IGARASHI Sho
    Cast
    HAGIWARA Masato, MURAKAMI Jun, YOSHIOKA Riho

    A human drama, set in Okinawa at the end of World War II, depicting the preciousness of human life. Directed by Igarashi Sho of One Step on a Mine, It's All Over. Together with Shimada Akira (Hagiwara Masato), the last appointed governor of Okinawa ...

  • Fragments of The Last Will

    Fragments of The Last Will (2022)

    Director
    ZEZE Takahisa
    Cast
    NINOMIYA Kazunari, KITAGAWA Keiko

    Drama depicting the 11-year bond between real-life Japanese POW Yamamoto Hatao, his wife and his fellow internees in a Siberian concentration camp (Lageri). Set in Siberia 1945, during a severe winter that is forty degrees below zero. Yamamoto (Nin...

  • SHIKKOKUTEN

    SHIKKOKUTEN (2022)

    Director
    SAKAMOTO Koichi
    Cast
    ARAKI Hirofumi

    Third production in the Movies x Stage series that utilizes film and theater performances. Script by "Token Ranbu" series director Suemitsu Kenichi. A guy with amnesia (Araki Hirofumi) shows up in Edo. After fate leads him to getting petty criminal ...

  • Gift of Fire

    Gift of Fire (2021)

    Director
    KUROSAKI Hiroshi
    Cast
    YAGIRA Yuya, ARIMURA Kasumi, MIURA Haruma

    Based on the historical events of the end of the Pacific War, this coming-of-age ensemble drama tells the story of three young adults who lived their lives to the fullest while being at the mercy of the times. It is the summer of 1945. Under secret ...

  • Zenin seppuku

    Zenin seppuku (2021)

    Director
    TOYODA Toshiaki
    Cast
    KUBOZUKA Yosuke, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko, IMOU Haruka

    Toyoda Toshiaki, who has constantly been releasing works including Wolf's Calling and The Day of Destruction, directs this twenty-six-minute period film on which he also serves as planner and producer. Kubozuka Yousuke, known for his roles in Silence...

  • Godai - The Wunderkind

    Godai - The Wunderkind (2020)

    Director
    TANAKA Mitsutoshi
    Cast
    MIURA Haruma, MIURA Shohei, NISHIKAWA Takanori

    Godai Tomoatsu, a samurai who prospered between the end of the Edo Era and the early Meiji Era, is depicted in this ensemble youth drama. The original story is brought to life by the 125 Years Memory duo of screenwriter Komatsu Eriko, and director Ta...

  • Independence of Japan

    Independence of Japan (2020)

    Director
    ITO Shunya
    Cast
    ASANO Tadanobu, MIYAZAWA Rie, KOBAYASHI Kaoru

    Set after the war in occupied Japan, this drama depicts Yoshida Shigeru and Shirasu Jiro, who were an equally matched opponent for the Allied Forces General Headquarters (GHQ) as it rushed to immediately restore Japan's autonomy. The film is written ...

  • SHINIGAMI AND THE DEATH HANDLER

    SHINIGAMI AND THE DEATH HANDLER (2020)

    Director
    SHIBAZAKI Takayuki
    Cast
    SUZUKI Hiroki, YASUI Kentaro, SAKIYAMA Tsubasa

    Second production in the Toei Movie x Stage project that connects the big screen with theater. The last of the death handlers investigates serial killings in Edo for this innovative historical drama. Original story and script by Suto Yasushi of Detec...

  • INU-OH

    INU-OH (2021)

    Director
    YUASA Masaaki
    Cast
    Avu-chan (Queen Bee), MORIYAMA Mirai

    Yuasa Masaaki directs this musical animated film adaptation of the novel "THE TALE OF THE HEIKE: THE INU-OH CHAPTERS" which is based on the true story of Noh master Inu-oh who performed between the Nanboku-cho Period and Muromachi Era. Manga artist M...

  • THE PASS: LAST DAYS OF THE SAMURAI

    THE PASS: LAST DAYS OF THE SAMURAI (2020)

    Director
    KOIZUMI Takashi
    Cast
    YAKUSHO Koji, MATSU Takako, NAKADAI Tatsuya

    First film adaptation of Shiba Ryotaro's famed work "Touge" about the heroic Kawai Tsugunosuke, known as the "last samurai." Direction and screenplay by Koizumi Takashi, who worked as assistant director on numerous Kurosawa Akira films. In 1867 as t...

  • HOKUSAI

    HOKUSAI (2020)

    Director
    HASHIMOTO Hajime
    Cast
    YAGIRA Yuya, TANAKA Min, NAGAYAMA Eita

    Life in the Edo Period was oppressive under the shogunate. The artist Katsushika Hokusai practiced his craft during this time and is the focus of this biographical drama directed by Hashimoto Hajime of the Detective in the Bar series. The film depic...

  • TALKING THE PICTURES

    TALKING THE PICTURES (2019)

    Director
    SUO Masayuki
    Cast
    NARITA Ryo, KUROSHIMA Yuina

    The first comedy in five years since Lady Maiko by Suo Masayuki whose Shall we Dance? was remade by Hollywood. It deals with the uniquely Japanese art of "Katsudo Benshi" or "movie narrator" during the Japanese silent film era. Shuntaro (Narita Ryo)...

  • BARAGAKI UNBROKEN SAMURAI

    BARAGAKI UNBROKEN SAMURAI (2020)

    Director
    HARADA Masato
    Cast
    OKADA Junichi, SHIBASAKI Ko, SUZUKI Ryohei

    Epic period drama based on Shiba Ryotaro's historical novel, helmed and scripted by Harada Masato of Sekigahara and KAKEKOMI. Vividly depicts Shinsengumi vice commander Hijikata Toshizo's life spanning the final days of the Edo period into the Meiji ...

  • ITOSATO A Kyoto Coutesan at the End of Samurai Era

    ITOSATO A Kyoto Coutesan at the End of Samurai Era (2018)

    Director
    KASHIMA Mikiya
    Cast
    FUJINO Ryoko, MIZOBATA Junpei, MATSUI Rena

    A geisha's tragic love story is told in this period film which was an official selection of the 38th Hawaii International Film Festival. The film is written and directed by Kashima Mikiya, a veteran of many period television series. Fujino Ryoko, who...