Jidaigeki films

1954 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa

is a 1950 Japanese period drama (jidaigeki) film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura, it follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest. The plot and characters are based upon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove", with the title and framing story taken from Akutagawa's "Rashōmon". Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the assault of the wife, an

1985 film by Akira Kurosawa

is a 1961 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe. In the film, a rōnin arrives in a small town where competing crime lords fight for supremacy. The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard.

1957 film by Akira Kurosawa

1958 film by Akira Kurosawa

is a 1980 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class petty thief who is taught to impersonate the dying daimyō Takeda Shingen to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. Kagemusha is the Japanese term for a political decoy, literally meaning "shadow warrior". The film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino.

1953 film by Teinosuke Kinugasa

Ugetsu (雨月物語, Ugetsu Monogatari, lit. "Rain-moon tales") is a 1953 Japanese period fantasy film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō. It is based on the stories "The House in the Thicket" and "The Lust of the White Serpent" from Ueda Akinari's 1776 book Ugetsu Monogatari, combining elements of the jidaigeki (period drama) genre with a ghost story.

is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed, co-written and edited by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune. It is a sequel to Kurosawa's 1961 Yojimbo.

1945 film by Akira Kurosawa

1962 film by Masaki Kobayashi

1954 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

1954 film by Hiroshi Inagaki

1964 Japanese film by Masaki Kobayashi

1952 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

2010 film by Takashi Miike

1964 Japanese film by Kaneto Shindō

, also known as Taboo, is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. Its subject is homosexuality in the Shinsengumi during the bakumatsu period, the end of the samurai era in the mid-19th century. The production was Õshima's final film before his death, thirteen years after Gohatto's premiere.

2012 film by Keishi Ōtomo

1980 jidaigeki film

2014 film by Keishi Ōtomo

1941 film directed by Kenji Mizokuchi

2003 film by Ryuhei Kitamura

1967 film by Masaki Kobayashi

1999 Japanese film directed by Takashi Koizumi

is a 1968 Japanese jidaigeki horror film directed by Kaneto Shindō, and an adaptation of a supernatural folktale. Set during a civil war in feudal Japan, the film's plot concerns the vengeful spirits, or onryō, of a woman and her daughter-in-law, who are raped and murdered by a band of samurai. It stars Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, and Kiwako Taichi.

2011 film directed by Takashi Miike

2004 film by Yōji Yamada

2017 film by Takashi Miike

1958 film by Keisuke Kinoshita

1966 film by Kihachi Okamoto

1955 film by Hiroshi Inagaki, Jun Fukuda

1962 film by Kenji Misumi

2006 film, directed by Hirokazu Koreeda

1954 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

2006 film by Yōji Yamada

1989 film by Hiroshi Teshigahara

1998 film by Hiroyuki Nakano

1993 film directed by Akira Inoue

1956 film by Hiroshi Inagaki

1946 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

2001 film by Yōjirō Takita

2017 film by Yūichi Fukuda

1927 film by Yasujirō Ozu and Torajirō Saitō

2003 film by Ryuhei Kitamura

1963 film by Tadashi Imai

2002 film directed by Takashi Miike

is a 2015 Japanese jidaigeki drama film directed by Masato Harada. It was released in Japan on May 16, 2015.

is a 1969 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Hideo Gosha. Set during the late Tokugawa period, the story follows a reclusive rōnin who is trying to atone for past transgressions.

2008 film by Fumihiko Sori

1963 film by Eiichi Kudo

1962 film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki

1955 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

1964 film by Kihachi Okamoto

1952 Japanese film by Hiroshi Inagaki

1962 film directed by Kinuyo Tanaka

1969 film by Hideo Gosha

1981 film by Shōhei Imamura

1982 film by Kōsei Saitō