Set after the drama series "Meiji Tokyo Renka." High school student Mei Ayazuki (Rikka Ihara) has travelled back in time to Tokyo in the Meiji period. She meets various historical figures from that time period. The identity of mysterious magician Chari (Yutaka Kobayashi) is revealed. (via Asianwiki)
At the beginning of the Meiji era, Sayoko, the daughter of a large banker in Tokyo, comes to Sotobo's villa for the first time in eight years, guided by her student, Yasu. In fact, Yasu is the son of Keizo Naya, the keeper of this villa. His father and older sister, Kyoko, live quietly in this place, where people rarely visit, like recluses. Sayoko, who grew up sickly and full of selfishness, treats Yasu, who has feelings for her, like a slave, blindfolds him, makes him help her change clothes, and makes him imitate Sansuke in the bathroom.
This is the true story of the last officially recorded case of adauchi, when a young man avenged the death of his father by brutally killing the murderers in broad daylight. Samurai revenge killings, or adauchi, was considered a rightful and noble act of honor and virtue.But all that changed abruptly on February 7, 1873, when adauchi became prohibited as part of the Meiji Restoration’s goal to Westernize Japan.
Traces the rise of the company Suzuki Shoten from the 1880's to 1919. After the death of her husband, Yoni Suzuki and her general manager built the company from a small sugar importer into Japan's largest trading and manufacturing company.
In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young policeman, but is coerced into becoming the mistress of and procurer for a vice boss.
It was a tumultuous time. In the early Meiji period, there was the first photographer in Japan who lived a heroic life. What fascinated him with photography was a photograph of a naked woman.
The critically acclaimed all-woman Japanese acting revue Takarazuka brings Rurouni Kenshin to life, creating a new twist on a globally loved story.
In the year 1868, three young men join the elite Shogitai division of the Shogunate. The Shogitai fights to the end and opposes the dismantling of the feudal military dictatorship known as the Bakufu system.
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class “untouchables,” leaving his hometown to serve as an elementary school teacher where he excels and is loved by his students. But he constantly struggles with the secret of his low-birth status and is disturbed by all of the discrimination levelled upon his class. It prevents him from pursuing a romance with Shiho, whom he meets at the temple where he resides, but who descends from a samurai family.
34th year of Meiji (1901). Japanese gangster Shuntaro Hibiki is forced to work for the police to find out who robbed a truck full of gold.
Retrata o cerco sangrento da fortaleza de Port Arthur, uma das posições mais fortemente fortificadas do mundo, durante a Guerra Russo-Japonesa de (1904 - 1905). Na história dominou o personagem Ten Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), professores e um oficial da reserva que se tornou comandante do pelotão e posteriormente da companhia. Paralelamente, acompanha a conduta do comandante do exército general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), que foi comissionado do imperador Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) para a conquista do forte.
At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility and shame for this failure is Shimura Kingo, master swordsman and chief of the guard. Forbidden to take his own life in atonement, he is instead tasked with hunting down the remaining assassins; however, fate intervenes and now only one is left. Devoted to his late lord and his duty, he relentlessly pursues the sole remaining assassin for the next thirteen years. But times are changing in Japan and the way of the sword has become outlawed. What does this mean for Kingo?
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.
Anos depois da trama do primeiro filme, Lady Snowblood está presa, sentenciada à morte pelos crimes que cometeu. Ela é salva, a caminho da execução, por integrantes da polícia secreta, que lhe oferecem o perdão e a liberdade caso ela mate o líder de um grupo de revolucionários. Porém, ao constatar as tristes condições em que vive o povo, a assassina resolve se aliar aos seus alvos contra os políticos que a contrataram.
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
A família de Yuki é quase exterminada antes de nascer devido às maquinações de um bando de criminosos. Esses criminosos sequestram e brutalizam sua mãe, mas deixá-a viva. Mais tarde, a mãe de Yuki acaba na prisão com uma sede ainda maior de vingança, levando-a a engravidar propositadamente para concretizar seu desejo. Yuki nunca soube o amor de uma família, apenas cumpri seu destino de matar os sequestradores e vingar sua mãe.
Remake do filme Os Imperdoáveis, de Clint Eastwood. E um vilarejo, um grupo de cowboys corta o rosto de uma prostituta e não são punidos. Insatisfeitas com a impunidade do grupo e a postura do Xerife da cidade, as prostitutas colocam um preço pela cabeça dos cowboys responsáveis pelo ocorrido. As ofertas atraem para o local dois personagens que mudaram completamente a vida dos habitantes.
Um estúdio cinematográfico será fechado. Genya Tachibana, uma reporter de televisão, localizou a sua mais famosa estrela, Chiyoko Fujiwara, que vive reclusa desde que deixou de atuar há mais de 30 anos. A repórter entrega uma chave à ela, o que a faz refletir sobre a sua carreira: enquanto ela conta a sua trajetória, Genya e seu sofredor cameraman mergulham numa fascinante história.