Period Drama Movies

This show is based on the jidaigeki TV series “Hissatsu Shigotonin,” which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s....

Gertrud is young, beautiful, rich, and the mother of three-month-old Vilhelm, whom she adores. When he is kidnapped, she is initially paralyzed with...

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...

In 1960s Paris, Billie and Carl, a tight-knit brother and sister duo, survive on small-time thefts. But when a high-society gala offers a...

This is a story of a young heir to a powerful house, sent away to be raised by his nanny, so the young lord Genrokuro grew up bitter about his...

A young woman's summer in New York includes working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, her return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all...

Inspired by the legacy of the Mirabal Sisters, siblings in the Dominican Republic who opposed the brutal dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. Three of...

The son of a small-town doctor returns to his hometown after being kicked out of Yale, and begins a new career on the town's newspaper.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.

Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa...

During the Sino-Japanese War, a Chinese couple, Yang Zihan and Liu Yuru, build a new life in Southeast Asia but are drawn into the fight for their...

It is Singapore in the late 1930s. Kai and Fei are childhood friends and aspiring violinists. When Japan invades Malaya in 1941, Kai chooses to forgo...

Chun-hyang, the only daughter of an old gisaeng named Wolmae, falls in love with Lee Mong-nyong and promises to marry him. But Lee leaves for Seoul...

Two German soldiers has taken a Norwegian soldier as prisoner, during one of the cold Scandianvian winter nights during WW2. They are thankful that...

An adaptation of Henry James' novel about the Countess Eugenia Münster and her brother Robert, expatriate Americans who have grown up in Europe....

Mary Wollstonecraft, an impoverished young Englishwoman on the eve of the French Revolution, makes the bold decision to lead her life according to...

A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes from the mountains to the ocean defeating the...

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class...