Meiji Period Movies
- 2013
Oshin
Oshin6.62013HD
A young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family, because of her own family's financial condition. Nevertheless, the young girl lives...
- 1974
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance6.41974HD
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who...
- 2009
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity6.22009HD
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
- 1965
Yakuza G-Men
Yakuza G-Men01965HD
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.
- 1980
Port Arthur
Port Arthur7.31980HD
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of...
- 2011
Tsugaru
Tsugaru02011HD
- 1964
Punishment of a Lawless Villian
Punishment of a Lawless Villian01964HD
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...
- 1988
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis6.21988HD
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming...
- 1969
Red Lion
Red Lion6.41969HD
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to...
- 2019
This Old Road -KONOMICHI-
This Old Road -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...
- 1977
Mount Hakkoda
Mount Hakkoda6.41977HD
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with...
- 1976
Cruel Bondage Picture Legend
Cruel Bondage Picture Legend21976HD
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...
- 2005
Year One in the North
Year One in the North4.92005HD
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of...
- 2024
The Last Town We Saw
The Last Town We Saw5.72024HD
The narrative centers on Taichi Tamiya, a television scriptwriter living in modern-day Tokyo with his family. Their ordinary lives are disrupted when...
- 1948
Apostasy
Apostasy5.81948HD
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
- 1962
The Broken Commandment
The Broken Commandment6.61962HD
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...
- 2002
Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover
Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover02002HD
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.
- 2014
Oiesan
Oiesan02014HD
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...
- 2011
The Last Revenge
The Last Revenge72011HD
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...
- 1981
Why Not?
Why Not?6.41981HD
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...