A treasured jidaigeki classic in Japan, the film depicts the harsh realities of life under the shogunate. It is believed to ...

Shiraishi Kazuya’s brutal Boshin War period piece about a group of death-row criminals recruited to defend a dilapidated fortress challenges the notion of the noble samurai.

During Netflix's International Showcase this past week, the streaming giant teased a ton of upcoming non-English language ...

After opening the Tokyo Film Festival, Shiraishi’s lusty samurai ... which ended centuries of feudalism under the isolationist Tokugawa shogunate and triggered Japan’s rapid transformation ...

The war against the Tokugawa Shogunate ended years ago. But there are some who are not happy with the outcome. Shigure Takimi watched his friends and family get slashed down in the name of freedom ...