Mikijirō Hira

内野聖陽がトラックドライバーに！エリート銀行マンから運送業へ。異彩を放った個性派キャラで魅力あふれる人間ドラマを展開！

Soma, an immigrant from a defeated country, lives as a fortuneteller in Japan. She is saved from corrupt court officials by Kojiro Masakado, a warrior from Bando. They get swept up in a conflict between Bando and the imperial forces.

大阪の団地で祖父母と両親、そして三つ子の姉たちと暮らす小学３年生の渦原琴子、通称こっこは、大家族の温かな愛情に包まれながらいつも不満だらけで、孤独に憧れていた。家と学校という限定された世界の中でいろいろなことに悩み、考えるこっこは、祖父・石太が教えてくれたイマジンという言葉を胸に少しずつ成長していく。

司法試験浪人の健太郎は、結果を出せないことで進路に疑問を抱き始めていた。そんなとき、彼は今の祖父とは血のつながりがなく、宮部久蔵という血縁上の祖父が太平洋戦争末期に特攻で命を落としていた事実を知る。そのときの祖父が自分と同じ26歳だったと聞き、健太郎は祖父の人生をたどり始める。だが当時の祖父を知る人々は、宮部は天才的なパイロットながら、生還に執着する臆病者、卑怯者だったと口をそろえて非難するのだった。

Pilot for a TV series. In the pilot Hiroshi Tachi is a lower ranked samurai investigating the the murder of Tanuma Okitsugu's son Mototomo by Sano Masakoto. Those events are a matter of history but the plot that Hiroshi unveils and is eventually killed for is fictional.

The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group of rival ninjas culminating in a race to ring a bell on top of a mountain.

Jiantan is a young boy who has to leave Xi'an after the death of his mother to go deep into the Tibetan prairies to start living with the father he barely remembers. His dad, LaGeBa, is a busy doctor who decided to depart from the city and reside in Tibet where he is the essential physician of the poor community he lives in. To help his father, Jiantan has to learn how to herd sheep. While trying to learn his new responsibility, he is saved by a stray gold-colored Tibetan Mastiff. Both Jiantan and the big dog help each other as they try to adjust to this new environment.

江戸時代末期。将軍・家慶の弟で明石藩主・松平斉韶（なりつぐ）の暴君ぶりは目に余った。斉韶は近く、老中への就任も決まっている男。幕府の存亡に危機感を募らせる老中・土井利位は、かねてより良く知る御目付・島田新左衛門に斉韶暗殺の密命を下す。さっそく、甥の新六郎をはじめ十一人の腕に覚えある男たちを集めた新左衛門は、後に加わる山の民・木賀小弥太を含む総勢十三人の暗殺部隊を組織、入念な計画を練り上げていく。しかし、斉韶の腹心・鬼頭半兵衛もまたその動きを抜け目なく察知し、大切な殿を守り抜くべく周到な準備を進めていた。

織田信長（中村橋之助）を暗殺した明智光秀が討伐され、豊臣秀吉（奥田瑛二）が天下を取った時代。超人的な身体能力を武器に金持ちから金品を盗み、貧しき者に分け与える盗賊・石川五右衛門（江口洋介）がすい星のごとく現れ、庶民を熱狂させる。そんな中、五右衛門は盗み出した財宝の中に重大な秘密が隠されている南蛮製の箱を見つける。

謎の記号から始まる首都壊滅のカウントダウン 浮かび上がる巧妙に仕組まれた爆破計画!? 東京郊外の巨大なテレビ塔で元人気ニュースキャスターの仲島孝臣の死体が発見された。現場には「f6」という謎の記号が――。 警視庁特命係の杉下右京と亀山薫は、刑事部長らから、小包爆弾のターゲットとなった衆議院議員の片山雛子の護衛を命じられた。雛子は爆発物で襲われるも、無事に海外視察に出立。襲撃現場には「d4」の記号があった。 右京と薫は、会員制webサイトSNS内に「処刑リスト」と名づけられた掲示板があることを知り、仲島と雛子の事件が予告殺人だったことを突き止める。さらに、2週間前に交通事故死していた来生判事の名前もリストに連ねられ、その事故現場から「e4」の記号を発見した右京は、それらの暗号がチェスの手を示す棋譜の記号で、一連の事件は連続殺人であると確信する。 手詰まりとなった捜査一課をよそに、右京は「処刑リスト」サイトを管理者から乗っ取ったという正体不明の人物のアドレス「stalemate@hot-free.net」にあてて、次の一手をメールしていた。意外にも返事があり、そのまま真剣勝負の対局へ。薫らが見守る中、ついに右京が「チェックメイト」を告げる。そしてその投了図から驚愕の事実が発覚！それは未曾有の大事件の始まりだった。右京と薫が史上最大の難問に挑む!!

狸と人は恋に落ちてはならないといわれている中、唐の国から狸御殿に招かれた狸姫（チャン・ツィイー）とがらさ城城主の世継ぎ・雨千代（オダギリジョー）はひと目で恋に落ちてしまう。

群雄割拠の戦国時代が終わりを告げ、世を二分する徳川と豊臣の戦いもいよいよ終盤を迎えていた頃。剣を手にして戦場を駆け抜けるひとりの少女がいた。天下取りの夢に浮かされた大名たちによって、未だにくすぶり続ける戦乱の時代に終止符を打ち、世の中に平和をもたらす為に、少女の使命は皮肉にも徳川の刺客となって対抗する豊臣の大名たちの命を奪うこと。なぜ、闘い続けなくてはいけないのか。安堵の人生を生きる幸せは許されないのか。刃をふるうたび少女の心は震える。少女の名はあずみ......。

The samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered his father to justice. In the course of their quest they uncover a plot by one of the clan officials that could change the course of history.

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

The year 1864: The Shinsengumi, the shogun’s armed force in Kyoto ripped the city apart, with blades in hand, searching for pockets of resistance, slaughtering the samurai who sought to bring down the shogunate and restore Japan’s emperor to power. By chance, Murao Mayumi and his sister Shiho, meet samurai Kurata. Murao, seeking his fortune with his sword-arm, will join Shinsengumi, never suspecting his friend Kurata is secretly Kurama Tengu, who hides his face in a black hood, and who will tear a bloody swath through Shinsengumi’s massed blades, to aid the samurai who had taken up the emperor’s cause. Will friend kill friend in a time of war?

Zuiketsu Genso: Tonkararin Yume Densetsu is a 1998 Japanese historical drama directed by Takashi Miike. It is one of three historical films included in the 2002 DVD compilation, Kumamoto Monogatari. The other two are Kikuchi-jo Monogatari: Sakimori-tachi no Uta and Onna Kunishuu Ikki, both also directed by Miike.

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.

梅安が音羽の元締から依頼された仕掛けの相手は、大阪の大元締・白子屋菊右衛門だった。以前、藤枝梅安は白子屋の世話になっていたが、剣客・小杉十五郎の件で対立する間柄に変わっていた。愛人をかどわかされ、江戸まで乗り込んでくる白子屋。命を付け狙われた梅安は、対決する覚悟を決め、白子屋に捨て身で立ち向かっていく…。

A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza family. When his boss gets shot, he decides to go after the plotters.

During the age of warring clans (Sengoku Jidai), many samurai lords sought to unite the country under their banners by becoming the supreme leader. One of the first to vie for power in this way was Saito Dosan, the 'Viper'. His son-in-law, Oda Nobunaga, did in fact unite the nation after subduing all of his enemies, yet falling at last to the treachery of one of his most trusted generals. This story is a pre-cursor to those later events as the brilliant military strategist Saito Dosan rises to power and notoriety as a great lord in his own right. Directed by Kudo Eiichi and with a tremendous supporting cast that includes Nakamura Toru as Oda Nobunaga and Chiba Shinichi as Akechi Mitsutsugu, battle scenes of awesome power and a unique view of Japanese history, this is a marvelous production highlighted by the action scenes done by the Japan Action Club (JAC).

伝説の黄金の国ジパングを巡って、七つの刀を持つ無敵の男、地獄極楽丸の活躍を描く冒険活劇。とある古墳内より黄金の剣を盗み出した盗賊・地獄極楽丸。しかしその剣の正体は伝説の国・ジパングへの鍵となる物だった......。

北海道・静内の小さな牧場。ここである日、一頭の仔馬が生まれる。伝説の名馬ゴドルフィンの血をひくこの仔馬は、“オラシオン（祈り）”と名付けられ、元気に育っていく。やがて、オラシオンは和具工業社長・和具平八郎に買い取られる。ある悩みを抱えた平八郎はオラシオンに自らの夢を託すのだった。

明治４５年。実業家の渋沢栄一は、東京の町を軍事面からだけではなく霊的にも守護する“東京改造計画”を始める。しかし、東京の壊滅をたくらむ謎の男・加藤保憲は平将門の霊を呼び覚まそうとする。大正１２年、加藤は関東大震災を起こすが、文豪の幸田露伴らの努力によって東京壊滅に失敗する。東京は渋沢らの手によって急速に復興するが昭和２年、加藤が再び東京に現われる。しかしそれを妨害しようとする面々が現われる。

A jewelry broker is killed and a large amount of money is stolen. A female detective from the Metropolitan Police Department transforms into a geisha to catch the criminal.

This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames them in front of the entire nation.

高校の写真部に所属する17歳の少女・瞳。母親は数年前に亡くなり、父親の修三は別の女性と再婚する予定だった。瞳はカメラを手に地元・鎌倉を歩くうち、梶川という中年男性と出会うが、自分が大学生だと嘘をつく。東京で梶川と再会した瞳は、すっかり彼に夢中になる。そんな瞳だが、母親の命日に偶然アルバムを見ると、亡き母親と梶川らしい男性が一緒に写った写真を見つけて驚く。20年前、梶川と瞳の母親は交際していた。

幕末。14代将軍・家茂が逝去し、跡継ぎ慶喜の住む京都に将軍家の密書が運ばれることになる。だが、主水ら品川宿の同心が護衛する中、何者かに密書が奪われてしまった。責任を問われた主水と上司の筆頭同心・田中は、密書奪還のため京都へ。密書には初代将軍家康公が築いた黒谷屋敷に隠されている秘密が記されていたという。屋敷に向かった主水たちだが、そこは侵入者を阻む罠がいたるところに仕掛けられたからくり屋敷だった。

A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.

The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead with flashy clothes and a handsome face, and is proficient in all the military arts and called Bored Hatamoto. Mikijiro Hira acts as such a hero in history. Mondonosuke is secretly ordered to look into the suspicious movement in Nagoya castle by the Ometsuke, and he found out about the misconduct and sole it. This is a period movie about the hero!

14歳の少年と娼婦が天城峠を旅しているときに起きた殺人事件と、30年間、事件を追い続けた老刑事の姿を描く。家が嫌になり静岡の兄を訪ねるため、ひとり天城越えの旅に出た少年。途中、素足で旅するハナという女性と出会い、二人並んで歩く。しかし、道中、旅の資金を手に入れるために行きずりの男に声をかけるハナ。無理やり少年と別れたハナの後を、密かに追った少年は草陰で情交を重ねる二人の姿を目撃してしまう…。

By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domen. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have infiltrated Satsuma in order to scout everything on the spot. However, they had all disappeared, and it was unclear whether they were alive or dead. Kenzaburo Kamiya and Iori Matsumura successfully infiltrate as the eighth and ninth spies and witness law-breaking exercises using a cannon. However, soon Satsuma men found them and drove them to the cliff...

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly desperate as events spin out of control, culminating in an audacious hijack at sea...

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?

In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Tanemura General Hospital in Tokyo, Setagaya. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Inspector Kitahara, who received the report, goes quickly to the Tanemura home, along with other police to speak to the family of the child. Then, suddenly, the phone rings. The kidnapper wants money.

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.

世界で初めて農民を組織したといわれる大原幽学を主人公に、笹川繁蔵、平手造酒、飯岡助五郎など浪曲でお馴じみの「天保水滸伝」をからませて、その時代に生きた人間群像を描く。脚本は「わが青春のとき」の山内久、監督は「不毛地帯」の山本薩夫、撮影は「君よ憤怒の河を渉れ」の小林節雄がそれぞれ担当。

A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.

海辺に父と二人で住むホルスは、岩男のモーグの肩に刺さっていた二本の剣を手に入れた。 その剣は太陽の剣と呼ばれる名剣で、その剣を鍛え上げ、使いこなせるようになった時、ホルスは太陽の王子 とよばようとモーグは言う。 父を失ったホルスは、一切合切を焼くと、父の遺言に従い人々のいる北の村に向かってコロとともに舟出した 。再びこの地に帰ることはない。 途中ホルスは悪魔グルンワルドに弟になれと誘われるが断って、崖から落とされてしまう。ホルスは 倒れたまま流氷にのって村に流れ着いた。ホルスは村の一員として受入れられるかに思えたが、グルンワルドのたくらみで村に送り込まれた一人の 少女ヒルダのために、村人達の不信を買い、とうとう村を追い出されてしまう。悪魔が勝つかに見えた。 しかしヒルダの心の奥底には、密かに人間らしさへの憧れが兆していた。悪魔の攻撃が始まった。ホルスは 人々を励まし、力をあわせて太陽の剣を鍛え上げ、ついに悪魔を倒した。ヒルダも仲間に受け入れられる。

Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her family, she finds herself unable to confide in her husband, and the pain she carries within begins to weigh heavily on her sanity...

When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon business in this family drama. Only one daughter cares to carry on her father's work, but she is met with resistance from her stepmother. One sister cares nothing for the artisan tradition, while the other is an icy opportunist whose only love is for money. It is the daughter who cares the most for her father's work who wanders away in a symbolic journey of self discovery.

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assassinate three strangers given to him on a list. However, upon meeting his first potential victim, Oida has second thoughts. Yet, even as he tries to back out, the body count starts climbing. Oida must now try to alert the people on his list of their impending danger, and find out why they are being targeted in the first place.

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.

Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, moonlights as a hostess at a bar. One of the regulars, Eiji Kitami, invites her out on a date. Still only 19, she goes along out of curiosity and ends up spending the night at a hotel where she gives herself to him. They begin a passionate love affair and move in together, after which Yoshie begins skipping work at the factory and rarely returns to her family home. Before long, Eiji’s demeanor changes and he begins to constantly ask her for money. Despite claiming to be a businessman, he is actually a local thug, and his inability to pay his dues to his gang leads him to force Yoshie into prostitution.

江戸時代史の謎である甲府宰相怪死事件の真相をえぐる、スリルと興奮に満ちたサスペンス時代劇。四代将軍・家綱の世、大老・酒井忠清は甲府宰相・綱重を五代将軍に推すことによって政道をわがものにしようと企んでいた。この陰謀を破壊せんと軍学者・山鹿素行の下に結束した、十人の暗殺者の凄絶な争いを描く。

丹波哲郎、平幹二朗、長門勇。若き日の大御所３人が暴れまわり、当時大人気となったTVシリーズの映画化。五社英雄の記念すべき初監督作品でもある。時代劇全盛期の迫力ある殺陣は今でもまったく色褪せない。

Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a treacherous clan in an arranged duel. 73 against one. Boastful Kojiro watches, secure in the knowledge that only he is a worthy opponent.

大坂冬の陣、夏の陣に活躍した真田十勇士の物語を、加藤泰監督が奇想天外な楽しさと面白さを盛り込み描いた型破りの時代活劇！！宇宙から降ってきた隕石の放射能の影響を受け、不思議な能力を身につけた戦国浮浪児の佐助。彼は成長して猿飛佐助と名乗り、むささびのお霧らとともに、カッコいい大将・真田幸村の部下となって、八百長だらけの大坂冬の陣、夏の陣を暴れまわる！

First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii

In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on a mission of learning; with the introduction of his arch-rival Sasaki Kojiro; and lastly the large cast of characters rendezvouses for a fateful finale.

A yakuza man is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom score.

Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain their turf from their rival, Domoto family. To reciprocate the kindness of the Kikkyos, Hishakaku heads to meet the leader of Domoto, Osumi, and finds himself emotionally involved with her.

人入れ稼業井筒屋の抱え人足で槍奴ぶりが評判の伊達男、権三と浪人者凡河内典膳の娘ちづはかねてからの恋仲だが、娘の夫は武士でなければという典繕の一徹さのために結婚出来ないでいた。そんなことから権三は武士になりたいと願うようになった。ある日、井筒屋に小大名小此木藩から九州へ帰国のための人足を雇いたいという注文が舞い込み、権三は仲間の助十たちと旅に出ることになった。ちづと変らぬ愛情を誓い合い旅に出た権三は...

The supply of sea bream to the fish market has decreased, and the price has increased to a whopping 1 ryo, and unable to face his customers openly anymore, Tasuke closes the shop and goes on a trip to celebrate the first wedding anniversary with his wife Onaka. Staying at the inn, Tasuke sees that dishes from magnificent sea bream are served here, which is very cheap. Tasuke goes to a fishing village and finds out here that a rich merchant is stopping the shipment of fish...

Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his unavoidable battle with Toyotomi Hideyori and goes into Fushimi Castle. At the night, Hattori Hanzo, the leader of 36 Iga members who were performing as guards of the castle, perceives the existence of a ninja and captures the mysterious sneaker.

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi skills and lives a fanatically devoted shogi game supported by the love of his family. This is the 3rd adaptation of Hideji Hojo's famous play.

Kamio a mistreated samurai clerk of Edo Castle and ronin (“Sir Quarrel”) Ibara, take up a vendetta against 17 wicked castle men.

A touching drama about a love triangle between a young architect, Koroku, and two women, Ranko and Teruko. Ranko comes from a wealthy family and is offering to repay Koroku’s family debts in exchange for marriage, but Koroku is in love with his landlord’s daughter, Teruko. Things are further complicated when the wicked Tsugawa takes interest in both women, for his own marriage.

Kimie, a traveling guitarist, performs at various inns at help out her sickly mother. One night while out with her mother, Otoshi, Kimie unexpectedly sees her father, who had abandoned the family 20 years ago. Her hopes for a happy reunion are quickly dashed as her father, having married into a wealthy family, wants nothing to do with her. Will Kimie be able to regain her father’s love?

An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his reconciliation with his brother Yoritomo.

From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the great warlords vied for power over the nation. Princess Sen, a daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu, is caught amidst the family feud between the Tokugawa and Toyotomi families. When her father Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu attacks her husband Toyotomi Hideyori's castle, her life takes a sudden turn for the worse. Will she ever find peace in her life again? One of Hibari Misora's most memorable performances, a movie you will never forget!

In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.

On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown to his family and colleagues. A bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to procure the money for themselves, enlisting the aid of impostors and blackmail.

Katsujiro the fisherman overcomes his laziness when he learns of his younger sister Okiku’s unfortunate fate. Nakamura Kinnosuke stars in two roles (Katsugoro and Aoyama Harima) in this film about the tragic nature of society in the late Edo period.

Detective Umon’s services are called upon when ronin Yaichiro is killed with a peculiar weapon, a stone wrapped in a towel.

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mother dies, they are sold to Sansho the Bailiff, a cruel man who subjects them to hideous torments. While Anju falls into a lake and is transformed into a swan, Zushio escapes and after being adopted to a nobleman grows to a young man. He will then fight to defeat the evil Dayu and free all the slaves.

The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda.

Namie's back in trouble, after getting snatched by an evil gang in search of the treasure. Kirimaru sets out to rescue his sweetheart and falls in with a band of pirates also hunting the hidden stash.

Tange Sazen interferes with an evil plot against the Iga Yagyu family.

Young swordsman, Tsukigata Hanpeita, longs for the day when rival clans cease their struggles for power and put an end to meaningless feudal wars. When he is appointed to oversee the Choshu Clan, he takes it upon himself to work towards the peace that he has dreamed about. With his affectionate personality and compassion for life, Hanpeita’s popularity grows among the people, making him a threat to those thirsty for conflict and power. A betrayal by those closest to him leaves Hanpeita caught in a trap that could ultimately cost him his life.

The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defeated leader of the Genji, Minamoto Yoritomo resolves to end his clan's exile and avenge the brutal loss in December, 1159 as they had fought under the white banner of the Emperor, while the Taira fought under their red flags in a battle to the death. The fight only took one day, with the Genji suffering utter defeat which led to their exile. His father, Yoshitomo, took responsibility for the loss and rather than live in humiliation, he decides to commit suicide with all his sons following him. However, the bravest warrior among them, Yoritomo stands tall and declares that he will not kill himself, but rather will fight to restore the clan.

With plenty of action, and a strong story about the growth and development of an expert swordsman, who just happens to be from an extremely privileged background.

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing sensei has been murdered in the dead of night, he must find the culprit and exact revenge. His return sets off a series of violent incidents and incites a high ranked female skilled in sword to test his mettle after he unwittingly offends her. The ever delightful Misora Hibari co-stars with the great Tsuruta Koji in this exciting tale set in the earliest days of the Tokugawa shogunate. Lots of exciting swordfights highlight this entertaining motion picture!