Meiji Period Movies
- 2012
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins7.52012HD
In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.
- 2014
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno7.6252014HD
Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto...
- 2014
Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends7.7132014HD
Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final...
- 2002
Millennium Actress
Millennium Actress7.82002HD
Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career....
- 1978
Empire of Passion
Empire of Passion71978HD
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
- 1973
Lady Snowblood
Lady Snowblood7.5411973HD
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother...
- 2013
Unforgiven
Unforgiven72013HD
An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.
- 1999
Gemini
Gemini6.61999HD
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.
- 1974
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance6.41974HD
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...
- 1969
Red Lion
Red Lion6.41969HD
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to...
- 1980
Port Arthur
Port Arthur7.61980HD
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...
- 2022
The Broken Commandment
The Broken Commandment7.42022HD
At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class...
- 1981
Why Not?
Why Not?6.41981HD
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...
- 2014
Snow on The Blades
Snow on The Blades6.52014HD
At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility...
- 2015
Gassoh
Gassoh7.22015HD
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...
- 2016
Takarazuka Revue - Rurouni Kenshin - The Romantic Story of a Meiji Swordsman-
Takarazuka Revue - Rurouni Kenshin - The Romantic Story of a Meiji Swordsman-102016HD
The critically acclaimed all-woman Japanese acting revue Takarazuka brings Rurouni Kenshin to life, creating a new twist on a globally loved story.
- 1953
The Wild Geese
The Wild Geese6.31953HD
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.
- 1958
A Wicked Woman
A Wicked Woman6.51958HD
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...
- 1976
Cruel Bondage Picture Legend
Cruel Bondage Picture Legend21976HD
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...
- 1965
Yakuza G-Men
Yakuza G-Men01965HD
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.