Chiyoko Fujiwara, ooit de grootste actrice van Japan, leidt een rustig, teruggetrokken leventje, ver weg van alle publiciteit. Toch stemt ze in met een interview met filmproducent Genya Tachibana. Wanneer ze hem vertelt over haar leven, beginnen feit en fictie met elkaar verstrengeld te raken.
Kurosawa's verfilming van Shakespeare's MacBeth. Washizu en Miki keren terug na een gewonnen veldslag en komen een heks tegen die voor elk van hen een voorspelling doet. Washizu zal de nieuwe heer van het kasteel worden en opgevolgd worden door de zoon van Miki.
In het feodale Japan, tijdens een bloedige oorlog tussen clans, stuiten twee laffe en hebzuchtige boeren, soldaten van een verslagen leger, op een mysterieuze man die hen naar een in de bergen verborgen fort leidt.
Het weesjongetje Kotaro en zijn hondje worden opgejaagd door een bataljon Chinese Ming-soldaten. Maar ook de moorddadige samoerai van de Japanse Akaike-clan zijn naar hem op zoek. Het blijkt dat het joch, zonder het te weten, de sleutel is tot het eeuwige leven. Om die onsterfelijkheid te verkrijgen bestrijden de Ming en de Akaike elkaar. Kotaro heeft vriendschap gesloten met de langharige ex-ronin, die ze 'No Name' noemen. Vanwege een traumatische gebeurtenis in het verleden heeft hij zijn zwaard verzegeld en afstand gedaan van zijn naam. Toch is hij het die Kotaro te hulp schiet.
Japan, eind 16de eeuw. Het land beleeft een periode van hevige oorlogen tussen de verschillende feodaliteiten. De machtige Shingen Takeda geldt hierbij als een onoverwinnelijk landheer. Maar dan gebeurt het ondenkbare: Shingen wordt gedood door een kogel.
De moeder en echtgenote van krijger Kichi wachten in armoede op zijn terugkeer van het slagveld. Ze leven door verloren soldaten door het hoge gras te lokken en vermoorden hen vervolgens. Hun wapentuig verkopen ze voor voedsel.
In het Japan van de zestiende eeuw willen twee lijfeigenen rijk worden. De ene, Genjurô, wil als pottenbakker zijn waren gaan verkopen, terwijl de andere, Tôbei, liever samurai wordt.
Op 21 oktober 1600 vindt de Slag bij Sekigahara plaats tussen het westerse leger, geleid door Mitsunari Ishida, en het oosterse leger, geleid door Ieyasu Tokugawa. Ieyasu Tokugawa probeert de natie vast te houden binnen zijn hebzuchtige greep.
Lord Oda Nobunaga is van plan Japan onder controle te krijgen, waar rivaliserende krijgsheren strijden door oorlog te voeren tegen verschillende clans. Zijn vazal Araki Murashige komt in opstand en verdwijnt prompt.
Wanneer een krachtige nieuwe Makamou Hibiki aanvalt en verslaat, duikt Asumu in de geschiedenis van Takeshi en ontdekt een boek met details over de oude Oni en een jongen die zijn naam deelt. Terwijl hij verder leest, leert hij over de spanningen tussen mensen en Oni terwijl ze worstelen om de Orochi Makamou te stoppen, maar zal hij de sleutel ontdekken om de nieuwe Orochi in het heden te verslaan?
Het verhaal van de film speelt zich af nadat het door Toyotomi Hideyoshi aangewakkerde conflict was geëindigd, maar niet voordat de Slag om Sekigahara heeft bepaald wie de Shogun van Japan zal worden.
Kagetora (Enoki) en Takeda (Tsugawa), twee samoerai-leiders, willen beiden voorkomen dat de ander teveel Japanse grond in zijn bezit krijgt. De twee achtervolgen elkaar over het platteland van Japan, wat leidt tot heftige gevechten tussen hun legers. Takeda is echter jonger en minder bruut dan zijn tegenstander. Hij moet de kracht vinden om net zo bruut te zijn, maar tegen welke prijs?
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan.
The story chronicles the life of Nagao Kagetora.
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
The drama series depicts the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616). Takechiyo (who later becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu) was born as the son of a poor and powerless daimyo. Takechiyo lost his father during a war. He grew up lonely and away from his mother. Takechiyo didn't have a clue about what his future would hold. He then has a dramatic meeting with the young Oda Nobunaga.
The anime centers on a young female ninja named Chidori, whose dream is to help the Warring States-era warlord Oda Nobunaga to achieve his goals.
Princess Go was the youngest of the most famous three sisters in Japanese history, who each led a remarkable life in an age of turmoil and civil war. Go loses her parents in the war, marries three times, and feuds with her own sister in competing for power. Go's husband becomes the second Tokugawa Shogun and she ensures her prominence as she gives birth to a son who later becomes the third Shogun and a daughter, a wife of the Emperor. The drama describes the age of the civil war through the eyes of Princess Go, who plays a significant part in establishing the age of peace that lasts over 200 years in Japan.
Broadcast TV drama NHK broadcast on January 4 to December 13, 1987 (Showa 62). In the questionnaire survey conducted by NHK, it is shining in the most favorite river drama. The original is Yamaka Sosaichi's novel "Date Masamune", the biggest drama on the theme of the Date house was the first time in 17 years since the "Shinnogi remained" (1970), which painted Datejo in the Edo period. It depicts the life of Matsudo Date of Sengoku warrior · Date Masamune who built the foundation of Sendai clan 620,000 stones in his generation as a result of my own wisdom and talent.
During the Sengoku period, there are many factions constantly at war. One of these is led by a one-eyed man named Date Masamune and another by the imposing Takeda Shingen. The latter has a fiercely loyal subordinate named Sanada Yukimura who goes head to head against Date Masamune multiple times, but the battles between them tend to get interrupted. One such battle occurs when both men try to go after another leader named Imagawa, and they’re forced to break off their heated duel when Imagawa attempts to flee the scene with his body doubles. Yukimura and Masamune go after separate Imagawas, but all of the doubles are killed by a third party, and when their paths cross again, they are in front of the menacing Oda Nobunaga and his army. It was Nobunaga’s subordinates that killed those body doubles, and Nobunaga himself proceeds to kill the real Imagawa with a shotgun blast to the head.
The 41st NHK Taiga Drama is Toshiie to Matsu. During the turbulent Warring States Era, one man's life and career intertwined with the three great generals of Japanese history-Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu. With political savvy and the support of his fiercely loyal wife, Maeda Toshiie rose to second in power in the shogunate and built up a fiefdom that encompassed Echizen, Noto and Kaga.
A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga. With an extraordinary combination of intelligence, bravery and military skill, Hideyoshi rose to near-absolute power and greatly expanded upon Nobunaga's unification of Japan's warlords. This series also focused on Hideyoshi's personal life, particularly his relationships with his mother and his wife, and the pair's rivalry for influence over him.
Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing Toyotomi forces, but eludes the enemy as they hunt down the vanquished soldiers. He then spends years wandering the countryside mastering the sword. As his fame spreads throughout the nation, men seek him out to test their skills against him--most notably Sasaki Kojiro who faces Musashi in the ultimate duel at Ganryujima.
Fūrin Kazan was the 46th NHK Taiga drama beginning on January 7, 2007. It was aired throughout 2007. The four characters from left to right are wind, woods, fire, and mountain. The title is a reference to the war banner used by Takeda Shingen, which in turn was taken from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. It means "Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain."
After the Onin War, the world is plunged into chaos. Amid this situation, heroes of the warring states begin to emerge in an attempt to unify the country and rule in these turbulent times. In the mid-1540s, there is a young wandering samurai in Mino which is strategically located between the East and West. His name is Akechi Mitsuhide. At this time, there is plenty of internal strife within the Toki clan which rules Mino. Surrounded by the Oda of Owari, the Imagawa of Suruga and the Asakura of Echizen, Mino has constantly faced the risk of invasion. Mitsuhide is pulled into battle and destroys the enemy. His bravery as well as stratagem catches the attention of Saito Toshimasa, the chief retainer of the Toki clan, and he is singled out. This man who is also known as Saito Dosan will go on to takeover the Toki and make Mino his own.
Sasuke Furuta is a vassal of the great warlord Nobunaga Oda and a man obsessed with tea ceremony and material desires in his pursuit of a fortuitous life. Having learned from Nobunaga and the legendary tea master Soueki Senne, Sasuke walks the way of the Hyouge Mono.
Dynamic reenactments and expert commentaries bring to life the tumultuous history and power struggles of a warring 16th-century feudal Japan.
Spanning over 50 episodes, we follow the historical fiction of the Sanada clansmen as they plotted and fought their ways to survive the changing political alliances during the Warring States Period of Japan.
Saburo is a high school student good in sports, but not very good with his studies. One day, Saburo travels back in time and arrives in the Sengoku period of 1549. There, Saburo meets Nobunaga Oda who looks and sounds just like Saburo. Nobunaga Oda is the son of a warlord and magistrate of the lower Owari Province. Nobunaga Oda, though, is physically weak, and he asks Saburo to take his place. Then, Saburo as Nobunaga Oda attempts to unify the country of Japan.
Brave 10 is a manga series by Kairi Shimotsuki, serialized in Media Factory's Comic Flapper from 2007 to 2010. The series was resumed on June 15, 2011 and retitled Brave 10 Spiral, better known as Brave 10 S, serialized in Monthly Comic Gene. An anime adaptation by Studio Sakimakura and TMS Entertainment began airing on January 8, 2012. The original manga series is licensed by Tokyopop, though no volumes have been released as of 2012. The series is based on the legendary Sanada Ten Braves, a group of ninja that assisted warlord Sanada Yukimura during the Sengoku period of Japan. The series had been licensed for streaming on Crunchyroll.
The 36th NHK Taiga Drama is Mori Motonari. This series chronicles the life of Mori Motonari, a warlord of the early 1500s who stood at the vanguard of the Warring States era. All Japanese school textbooks contain the Mitsuya no kyokun, Mori's famous lesson to his three sons that teaches that while one arrow is easily broken, three arrows together cannot be broken. In 1997, 500 years after his birth, NHK dramatizes Motonari's rise from a chief of the region of Aki (now Hiroshima) to a daimyo who rules over ten provinces of the Chugoku region. Motonari was 64 years old and already the patriarch of a powerful dynasty about the time Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen appeared on the scene. And even after his death, the Mori family figured prominently in Japanese history. His grandson Terumoto became a loyal Toyotomi vassal. Defeated at the Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu confiscated most of his lands, leaving him only with Suwo and Nagato, later known as Choshu. But 260 years later, the Mori got their ultimate revenge, leading the imperial forces against the Tokugawa in the Meiji Restoration.
