Keyword Jidaigeki
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2021
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning7.70 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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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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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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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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2014
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno7.60 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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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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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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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 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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1953
Ugetsu
Ugetsu8.00 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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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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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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2003
Zatoichi
Zatoichi7.20 2003 HD
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by...
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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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2017
Blade of the Immortal
Blade of the Immortal6.60 2017 HD
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows...
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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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1965
Red Beard
Red Beard8.09 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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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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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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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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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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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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2019
Dororo
Dororo8.60 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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2016
Sanadamaru
Sanadamaru7.80 2016 HD
Spanning over 50 episodes, we follow the historical fiction of the Sanada clansmen as they plotted and fought their ways to survive the changing...
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1967
Three Sisters
Three Sisters1 1967 HD
The Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration.
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2020
Awaiting Kirin
Awaiting Kirin8.30 2020 HD
After the Onin War, the world is plunged into chaos. Amid this situation, heroes of the warring states begin to emerge in an attempt to unify the...
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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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1972
Professional Killers
Professional Killers7.00 1972 HD
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one...