Movies: Meiji period

  • 1953
    The Wild Geese

    The Wild Geese (1953)

    The Wild Geese

    6.51953HD

    A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age....

    The Wild Geese
  • 2014
    Oiesan

    Oiesan (2014)

    Oiesan

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    Traces the rise of the company Suzuki Shoten from the 1880's to 1919. After the death of her husband, Yoni Suzuki and her general manager built the company from a small sugar importer into Japan's largest trading and manufacturing company....

    Oiesan
  • 2014
    Snow on The Blades

    Snow on The Blades (2014)

    Snow on The Blades

    6.62014HD

    At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility and shame for this failure is Shimura Kingo, master swordsman and chief of the guard. Forbidden to take his o...

    Snow on The Blades
  • 1962
    The Whale God

    The Whale God (1962)

    The Whale God

    7.31962HD

    A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it....

    The Whale God
  • 2024
    The Last Town We Saw

    The Last Town We Saw (2024)

    The Last Town We Saw

    5.62024HD

    The narrative centers on Taichi Tamiya, a television scriptwriter living in modern-day Tokyo with his family. Their ordinary lives are disrupted when they inexplicably time-travel to June 1944, during the height of World War II. Confronted with the h...

    The Last Town We Saw
  • 1958
    A Wicked Woman

    A Wicked Woman (1958)

    A Wicked Woman

    6.51958HD

    In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young policeman, but is coerced into becoming the mistress of and procurer for a vice boss....

    A Wicked Woman
  • 2022
    The Broken Commandment

    The Broken Commandment (2022)

    The Broken Commandment

    7.42022HD

    At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class “untouchables,” leaving his hometown to serve as an elementary school teacher where he excels and is loved by his students. But he constan...

    The Broken Commandment
  • 2018
    Laughing Under the Clouds

    Laughing Under the Clouds (2018)

    Laughing Under the Clouds

    5.32018HD

    In the dawn of the Meiji period, the Gokumonjou, an inescapable prison, has been established in the middle of an enormous lake to counter the soaring crime rates the new era has brought. Serving as the ferrymen are the famous Kumou brothers: the ecce...

    Laughing Under the Clouds
  • 2019
    Konomichi

    Konomichi (2019)

    Konomichi

    7.72019HD

    A genius and reckless poet and a hard working musician are asked by the CEO of a children literature magazine to write a war song to send children into the battlefield....

    Konomichi
  • 1985
    Kinbakuka: Biniku no Mori

    Kinbakuka: Biniku no Mori (1985)

    Kinbakuka: Biniku no Mori

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    At the beginning of the Meiji era, Sayoko, the daughter of a large banker in Tokyo, comes to Sotobo's villa for the first time in eight years, guided by her student, Yasu. In fact, Yasu is the son of Keizo Naya, the keeper of this villa. His father a...

    Kinbakuka: Biniku no Mori
  • 1964
    Punishment of a Lawless Villian

    Punishment of a Lawless Villian (1964)

    Punishment of a Lawless Villian

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    In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many obstacles. Adapted from Shugoro Yamamoto novel....

    Punishment of a Lawless Villian
  • 2011
    The Last Revenge

    The Last Revenge (2011)

    The Last Revenge

    72011HD

    This is the true story of the last officially recorded case of adauchi, when a young man avenged the death of his father by brutally killing the murderers in broad daylight. Samurai revenge killings, or adauchi, was considered a rightful and noble ac...

    The Last Revenge
  • 2015
    Gassoh

    Gassoh (2015)

    Gassoh

    7.62015HD

    In the year 1868, three young men join the elite Shogitai division of the Shogunate. The Shogitai fights to the end and opposes the dismantling of the feudal military dictatorship known as the Bakufu system....

    Gassoh
  • 2023
    Oshorin

    Oshorin (2023)

    Oshorin

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    Oshorin
  • 2002
    Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover

    Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover (2002)

    Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover

    02002HD

    Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for one year before his death....

    Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover
  • 2019
    Meiji Tokyo Renka

    Meiji Tokyo Renka (2019)

    Meiji Tokyo Renka

    72019HD

    Set after the drama series "Meiji Tokyo Renka." High school student Mei Ayazuki (Rikka Ihara) has travelled back in time to Tokyo in the Meiji period. She meets various historical figures from that time period. The identity of mysterious magician Cha...

    Meiji Tokyo Renka
  • 1976
    Cruel Bondage Picture Legend

    Cruel Bondage Picture Legend (1976)

    Cruel Bondage Picture Legend

    21976HD

    It was a tumultuous time. In the early Meiji period, there was the first photographer in Japan who lived a heroic life. What fascinated him with photography was a photograph of a naked woman....

    Cruel Bondage Picture Legend
  • 1965
    Yakuza G-Men

    Yakuza G-Men (1965)

    Yakuza G-Men

    01965HD

    34th year of Meiji (1901). Japanese gangster Shuntaro Hibiki is forced to work for the police to find out who robbed a truck full of gold....

    Yakuza G-Men
  • 1943
    The Life of Matsu the Untamed

    The Life of Matsu the Untamed (1943)

    The Life of Matsu the Untamed

    6.91943HD

    Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy, Toshio, and is hired by the boy's parents....

    The Life of Matsu the Untamed
  • 2019
    A Town and a Tall Chimney

    A Town and a Tall Chimney (2019)

    A Town and a Tall Chimney

    82019HD

    Japan in 1910, industrialization is unstoppable and devastating entire areas in the name of progress. In X, a farming village in Ibaraki Prefecture, the environment is so polluted that the plants in the fields die and the air, which is laden with tox...

    A Town and a Tall Chimney