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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...

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in...

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.

A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.

Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do...

When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.

Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him....

Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."

A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown.

A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing...

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara