Tokugawa shogunate movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant tokugawa shogunate movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, stylized, jidai geki, bleak and atmospheric films and TV shows about / with samurai, tokugawa shogunate, martial arts, heroes, medieval, sword fight, katana, rivalry, vengeance and sword plots mostly in Drama, Action and History genres shot in Japan, USA, UK and other countries.
tokugawa shogunate
TOP 10 movies tagged as tokugawa shogunate: Yojimbo (1961), Harakiri (1962), Devil Woman (1964), Goyokin (1969), Kagemusha (1980), Ran (1985), Lady Snowblood (1973), When the Last Sword is Drawn (2002), Zatoichi (2003), The Hidden Blade (2004).
Best films
List of tokugawa shogunate movies
125K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant ...
Style:
cynical, thought provoking, exciting, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, small town, bodyguard, betrayal, gang, martial arts, rivalry, gang war, ronin, gangsters, mercenary ...
Time:
19th century, future, 1860s, 18th century
Place:
japan, india, tokyo, asia
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59K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, melancholic, enigmatic ...
Plot:
samurai, suicide, poverty, revenge, vengeance, seppuku, sword fight, courage, tragedy, life & death, rivalry, society ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In medieval times, on a remote plain, a widow and her mother-in-law kill wandering samurai, put their bodies in a hole in the ground and sell their armour and valuables, until the daughter-in-law falls in love with one of their intended victims.
Style:
atmospheric, scary, surreal, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
samurai, murder, swamp, macabre, demon, sex, witch, vengeance, survival, suspense, tokugawa shogunate, pagan ...
Time:
14th century, middle ages
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
Style:
captivating, tense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, medieval, tokugawa shogunate, winter, fight, ninja, snow, time travel, kung fu, revenge, asian history ...
Time:
19th century, 17th century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his superior officer's mistress, whom he suspects of ...
Style:
art house, splatter, disturbing, sexy, realistic ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, sexploitation, investigation, tokugawa shogunate, medieval, violent, torture, ancient, superhero, revenge, nude ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
japan, asia
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36K
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, in order to protect his clan from appearing weak and vulnerable. But he finds himself haunted by the warlord’s spirit as well as his own ambitions.
Style:
captivating, bleak, enigmatic, epic, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, battles, war, warlord, japanese history, heroes, doppelganger, medieval, emperor, death, feudal japan ...
Time:
16th century, 18th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, india, asia
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128K
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how their new-found power will corrupt them.
Style:
visually appealing, atmospheric, thought provoking, breathtaking, cerebral ...
Plot:
samurai, greed, vengeance, war, shakespeare, feudal japan, medieval, castle, betrayal, nihilism, insanity, politics ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages
Place:
japan, tokyo, india, asia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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 but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. ...
Style:
suspenseful, bloody, exciting, melancholic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, martial arts, rape, revenge, prison, childbirth, murder, female killer, female protagonist, samurai, female assassin, female warrior ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, 1890s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town clan, he is forced by the love for his family to leave for the city in search of higher pay to support ...
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
samurai, japanese history, sword fight, political unrest, emperor, human spirit, tragic hero, life is a bitch, martial arts, hopes, unfulfillment, state affairs ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant ?
50K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Zatôichi is a 19th century blind nomad who makes his living as a gambler and masseur. However, behind this humble facade, he is a master swordsman gifted with a lightning-fast draw and breathtaking precision. While wandering, Zatôichi discovers a ...
Style:
atmospheric, humorous, exciting, harsh, stylized ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, sword fight, vengeance, master warrior, gang, violence, good versus evil, protector, blind character, escapades, rivalry ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, stylized, epic, romantic ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, caste system, vengeance, love and romance, politics, family life, medieval, tokugawa shogunate, winter, society, ninja ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant ?
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai (Kimura) and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.
Style:
serious, psychological, romantic, jidai geki, social ...
Plot:
samurai, blind character, social differences, hopes, rivalry, society, vengeance, political unrest, master warrior, blindness, martial arts, medieval ...
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Style:
unusual plot structure, intense, visually appealing, harsh, tense ...
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, samurai sword, warrior, seppuku, battles, martial arts, revenge, fight, massacre, shogun, swordsman ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of smugglers, with stolen ...
Style:
jidai geki
Plot:
samurai, tokugawa shogunate, hotel, asian history, time travel, edo period, stolen money, feudal japan, servant, father daughter relationship, drunkenness, prostitute ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan
Is relevant ?
39K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, witty, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, corruption, betrayal, rescue, martial arts, police investigation, culture clash, visceral, transformation, small town, one against many ...
Time:
19th century, future
Place:
japan, india, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, ...
Style:
jidai geki
Plot:
samurai, japanese history, martial arts, tokugawa shogunate, medieval, ancient, samurai era, katana, sword fight, warrior, japanese culture
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
japan, kyoto japan
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
samurai, catholic, mental disorder, tokugawa shogunate, christianity, religious persecution, jesuit, life is a bitch, human nature, society, clergy, disorder ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant ?
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, ninja, tokugawa shogunate, woman with a gun, battles, escapades, rivalry, master warrior, military, state affairs, heroes ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
japan, asia, usa
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13K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 547 min.
TV show
Story:
An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.
Style:
atmospheric, epic, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
samurai, shogun, jesuit, martial arts, intrigue, leadership, interracial relations, white man asian woman relationship, historical event, world history, tokugawa shogunate, dutch history ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, portugal, asia
Is relevant ?
664
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ee 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 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, cynical, witty, clever ...
Plot:
samurai, tokugawa shogunate, sex, prostitute, edo period, satire, society, state affairs, heroes, dark humor, rich and poor, fish out of water ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant ?
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.
Style:
perverse, serious, exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, ninja, medieval, deal with the devil, tokugawa shogunate, undead, heroes, master warrior, supernatural, good versus evil, nude ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant ?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Iemitsu, Tokugawa Shogun III, hates his eldest son Takechiyo; all his love is given to his younger son Tokumatsu. One day, he orders Takechiyo to an initiation rite in Yedo (today's Tokio). Takechiyo lives far away under the surveillance of ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, countryside, asian history, tokugawa shogunate, fight
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan
Is relevant ?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, tokugawa shogunate, flashback, scheming, rebel army, emperor, sword, seppuku, revolt, hara kiri, selfishness ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
[Period covered: 1575-1681] Fist film in the Shinobi series starring Raizo Ichikawa. Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan, a young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, jidai geki
Plot:
ninja, samurai, martial arts, medieval, tokugawa shogunate, kung fu, sword, assassination, battles, religions or cults, undercover, escapades ...
Time:
60s
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha’s Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, stylized ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, medieval, kung fu, ronin, tokugawa shogunate, ancient, fight, fencing, gambling, strangulation, reform ...
Time:
19th century, 60s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the ...
Style:
epic, breathtaking, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night, manly
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, battles, war, military, courage, warrior, pride and honor, self discovery, katana, human spirit, martial arts ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
japan, asia, africa, pacific ocean, san francisco ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the ...
Style:
tense, emotional, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, poverty, love, friendship, single father, character study, tragedy, love story, visceral, assassination, samurai era ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: History
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A film about the assination of Ii Naosuke at the gate of Edo castle in 1860 by ronin from the mito domain.
Plot:
samurai, medieval, tokugawa shogunate, japanese history, anti christianity, edo period, snow, katana, xenophobia, sword fight, historical event, government official ...
Time:
1860s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant ...
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
shogun, samurai, epidemic, matriarchy, harem, palace, romantic rivalry, forbidden love, multiple contestants, rivals, relationships, male female relationship ...
Time:
18th century, 17th century
Is relevant ?
972
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Jin is a Japanese television drama series, first broadcast on TBS in 2009 and a second season in 2011. It is based on the Japanese manga series, Jin, written by Motoka Murakami.
It was one of the most popular dramas of the year and won many major ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, suspenseful, medical drama
Plot:
time travel, medical profession, saving a life, fiance fiancee relationship, hospital, surgery, changing the future, time traveler, doctor, palace intrigue, time portal, surgeon ...
Time:
1860s
Place:
japan, tokyo
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