Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "shogunate"

1. Silence (I) (2016)

R | 161 min | Drama, History

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano

Votes: 123,037 | Gross: $7.10M

2. Harakiri (1962)

Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba

Votes: 68,755

3. Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku (2023– )

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A squad of prisoners and their guards are sent to investigate a mysterious island. They get stranded there and must rely on each other to survive the island's mysterious and monstrous residents.

Stars: Chiaki Kobayashi, Yumiri Hanamori, Marisa Duran, Alejandro Saab

Votes: 12,681

4. Rurouni Kenshin (1996–1998)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The adventures of a young wandering swordsman who stumbles upon a struggling martial arts school in Meiji era Japan.

Stars: Mayo Suzukaze, Dorothy Elias-Fahn, Richard Cansino, Rebecca Forstadt

Votes: 20,566

5. Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012)

TV-MA | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A former assassin who has resolved to never kill again has his vow sorely tested.

Director: Keishi Otomo | Stars: Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei, Yû Aoi, Munetaka Aoki

Votes: 29,027

6. Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Horror

Three tales of punishment and torture set in Japan in the Middle Ages.

Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Fumio Watanabe, Reiko Mikasa

Votes: 676

7. Blade of the Immortal (2017)

R | 140 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Cursed with a life of immortality, a samurai is tasked by a young girl to help avenge the death of her father. Based on the manga series by Hiroaki Samura.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Takuya Kimura, Hana Sugisaki, Sôta Fukushi, Hayato Ichihara

Votes: 19,450 | Gross: $0.15M

8. Inferno of Torture (1969)

18+ | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Two highly skilled tattoo artists clash as the demand for tattooed geishas rises to satisfy European clients.

Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Asao Koike, Yumiko Katayama

Votes: 633

9. Samurai Marathon (2019)

TV-14 | 103 min | Action, Adventure, History

In 1855, a daimyo sends his men on a grueling marathon to discover if they're tough enough to face the newly arrived Americans. Misunderstanding his intent, the Shogun dispatches assassins.

Director: Bernard Rose | Stars: Takeru Satoh, Nana Komatsu, Mirai Moriyama, Shôta Sometani

Votes: 1,188

10. Katanagatari (2010)

TV-PG | 50 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Kyotoryuu, is the legendary fencing school. However, instead of a sword, it uses one's hands and legs as weapons. Shichika and his sister Nanami are the sole remaining descendants of the ... See full summary »

Stars: Yoshimasa Hosoya, Yukari Tamura, Masako Ikeda, Haruka Tomatsu

Votes: 1,594

11. Taboo (1999)

Unrated | 100 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him, threatening to disturb the rigid code of their squad.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Ryûhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano

Votes: 8,077 | Gross: $0.05M

12. The Dagger of Kamui (1985)

Not Rated | 132 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

An orphan named Taro killed who Tein-Hei told her was the killer of his family. Taro found out, years later that Tein-Hei is the true killer and the man he killed was his father. Taro's ... See full summary »

Director: Rintarô | Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Mami Koyama, Tarô Ishida, Yuriko Yamamoto

Votes: 792

13. Red Lion (1969)

115 min | Action, Comedy

Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt officials and businessmen.

Director: Kihachi Okamoto | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Shima Iwashita, Etsushi Takahashi, Minori Terada

Votes: 799

14. Samurai Resurrection (2003)

106 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

37,000 Peasants perished in the Shimbara Revolt: among them, the leader of that uprising, Shiro Amakusa. Amakusa is resurrected from hell bent on revenging the death of his fellow comrades ... See full summary »

Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Yôsuke Kubozuka, Kumiko Asô, Tetta Sugimoto, Tomoka Kurotani

Votes: 444

15. Assassination (1964)

104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In 1863, when Americans warships approach Japan, a enigmatic ronin becomes a important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.

Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Shima Iwashita, Eiji Okada, Isao Kimura

Votes: 969

16. Why Not? (1981)

151 min | Drama

Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.

Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Masao Kusakari, Ken Ogata

Votes: 689

17. Yoshitsune (2005– )

Action, Biography, Drama

Fictionalized account of the last years of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159-1189), one of the great folk heroes of Japan, and the political intrigues that sealed his fate.

Stars: Hideaki Takizawa, Noriko Nakagoshi, Mutsumi Fujita, Tatsuo Ito

Votes: 100

18. The Lightning Tree (2010)

133 min | Romance

The mentally troubled son of a shogun falls for a girl who's been raised in the mountains.

Director: Ryûichi Hiroki | Stars: Yû Aoi, Pîtâ, Kengo Kôra, Masaki Okada

Votes: 142

19. The Revolutionary (1962)

100 min | Biography, Drama, History

In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Hashizô Ôkawa, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Satomi Oka, Rentarô Mikuni

Votes: 205

20. Samurai Shifters (2019)

120 min | Comedy, History

The noble Katagiri Harunosuke is both a warrior and a scholar. He is a samurai in the employment of his lord or Daimyo and also a bookworm. His newest and somewhat surprising task is to ... See full summary »

Director: Isshin Inudô | Stars: Gaku Hamada, Gen Hoshino, Yutaka Matsushige, Masahiko Nishimura

Votes: 292

21. Female Ninja Magic: 100 Trampled Flowers (1974)

76 min | Drama

This action-packed softcore melodrama concerns a group of female ninjas who use sexual magic along with their considerable fighting skills to protect their province from takeover by a ruthless shogun and his band of fighters.

Director: Chûsei Sone | Stars: Junko Miyashita, Hitomi Kozue, Yuko Katagiri, Hiroshi Chô

Votes: 47

22. The Blue Wolves of Mibu (2024– )

Animation, Action, History | Pre-production

In 1860s Japan, an idealistic young boy joins a group of revolutionaries to change his land for the better.

Stars: Shuichiro Umeda, Tomokazu Sugita, Kenshô Ono, Yôhei Azakami

23. Ninja in Moonshade (1963)

87 min | Action, Adventure, History

Terror is threatening to dethrone Shogun Yoshimun. Chaos is in Japan and is Ijyuin Tanomo, using ninja to instigate rebellion? Narumiya Shinbei, is a samurai who must uncover the cause of ... See full summary »

Director: Junji Kurata | Stars: Hiroki Matsukata, Kôtarô Satomi, Jûshirô Konoe, Ichirô Nakatani

24. 7 Blades (2000 Video Game)

Action

In the year Kanei 17, the man-made island of Dejima, home of many foreigners, has been brutally attacked by a ninja squad sent by the shogunate. At the same time, a mysterious golden dragon... See full summary »

Directors: Shinsuke Mukai, Kenyo Sato | Stars: Toshiaki Doi, Daisuke Egawa, Fumihiko Gotô, Masaya Hashimoto

Votes: 11

25. Sengoku (2011 Video Game)

T | History, War

Rise to power in Feudal Japan with your Samurai family in the epic Grand Strategy Sengoku In this deep character driven strategy game, you play as the head of an illustrious Samurai family.

Director: Thomas Johansson

26. Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode: The Samurai (1994)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A descendant of one of Duncan's teachers comes to him claiming a long-ago promise of help, that pits Duncan against cruel Immortal Michael Kent.

Director: Dennis Berry | Stars: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Philip Akin, Jim Byrnes

Votes: 223

27. The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode: Evolution of Japanese Uniforms (2021)

12 min | Documentary, Animation

The Armchair Historian traces and illustrates the evolution of Japanese army uniforms from the fall of the shogunate in 1868 to the recent changes in 2018.

Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen

28. Captivating History (2017– )
Episode: 5 Ways the Atomic Bombing Changed Japan (2023)

13 min | Documentary, History

The history and social reforms of post-World War Two Japan.