Eski efsanevi suikastçı Kenshin Himura (Takeru Sato) artık gezgin bir samuray haline gelmiştir. Geçmişte yaptıkları yüzünden kefareti olarak artık yardıma ihtiyacı olanları korur. Bu süre zarfında Kenshin Himura Kaoru Kamiya (Emi Takei) ona yardımcı olurlar. Kenshin'nin şiddet dolu geçmişi ile sorunları devam eder ...
Kenshin Himura (Takeru Satô) kılıç ustası bir suikastçıdir. Ezeli düşmanı Makoto Shishio ile mücadele vermektedir. Ancak bu defa amacı daha farklıdır. Meiji hükümetine karşı yapılan saldırıları engellemektir. Ülkenin geleceği de Himura’nın mücadelesine bağlıdır.
Usta suikastçı Kenshin Himura, acımasız şeytani düşmanı Makoto Shishio’ya karşı durmaktadır. Bu kez amacı, Meiji hükümetine yönelik saldırıları engellemektir. Ülkenin kaderi Kenshin’in kılıcını ne kadar ustalıkla kullanacağına bağlıdır.
Studio Gin'ei film yapımcısı Gen'ya Tachibana, gençlik yıllarının ünlü film yıldızı Chiyoko Fujiwara'nın hayatını belgesel haline getirmeye karar verir. Chiyoko 1930'dan 1960'a kadar çalıştığı stüdyonun baş kadın oyuncusu olmuştur. Ama kariyerinin zirvesinde oyunculuğu bırakıp inzivaya çekilmiştir. Tachibana ve ekibindeki insanlar Chiyoko hayatını anlatırken kendilerini eşsiz hatıraların saklandığı bir zaman tünelinde bulurlar.
Japonya karışık bir dönemdedir. Yuki'nin babası öğretmen olarak bi köy veya kasabaya gelir o kasaba veya köyün yerel çetesi tarafında babası katledilir, annesi ise tecavüze uğrar annesi bu yerel çetenin bir elemanını öldürür ve böylece hapishaneye düşer orada intikamını almak için önüne gelen erkekle yatar intikamını bu doğan çocuğun almasını sağlamaktır amacı intikam gözünü kör etmiştir yani bi bakıma aynı zamanda böylece bir kız çocuğu doğurur bu kız çocuğunu doğurduktan bi süre sonra ölür kız hapisten çıkar ve budist bi rahip tarafından yetiştirilir her türlü dövüş tekniğini öğrenerek tabii sonra ailesini katillerinin peşine düşer filmin konusu budur. Salt intikam duygularını dayanan bir film çünkü intikam için doğmuştur Yuki ve bunu başarmalıdır.
Aksiyon bu kez 1800’lü yılların sonunda Hokkaido’da geçiyor. Başrol oyuncusu Ken Watanabe, Japonya’nın daha modern bir duruş benimsemek adına eski metodları bıraktığı dönemde, yoksulluk ve büyük bir ödül nedeniyle yeniden harekete geçen uzun zaman önce emekli olmuş bir samurayı canlandırıyor...
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.
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.