🏷 Discover The Best Edo Period Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Immerse Yourself in Japan's Golden Age: Discovering the Best Movies and TV Shows Related to Edo Period

Experience the vibrant culture, stunning landscapes, and intricate traditions of Japan's Edo period through the lens of captivating movies and TV shows. From sweeping dramas to witty comedies, explore the best on-screen adaptations that bring this fascinating era to life.

Cast

Maya Erskine

George Takei

Masi Oka

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

BLUE EYE SAMURAI (2023) TV Show

8.5 788 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: France, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.

Style: violent

Plot: samurai, revenge, adult animation, edo period, action, overcoming the odds

Time: 17th century

Place: japan

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai

Akira Ishihama

Shima Iwashita

Tetsuro Tamba

Harakiri (1962)

8.4 1.2K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Country: Japan

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

Style: philosophical

Plot: suicide, samurai, asia, flashback, revenge, poverty, black and white, seppuku, ...

Time: 17th century

Place: japan

Red Beard (1965)

8.2 410 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 185 min.

Story: Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

Plot: uniform, career, small town, brothel, heal, lunatic asylum, rural area, clinic, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Chiaki Kobayashi

Yumiri Hanamori

Ryohei Kimura

Rie Takahashi

Hell's Paradise (2023) TV Show

8.2 486 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 25

Audience: TV-14

Story: For a chance at a pardon, a ninja assassin joins other condemned criminals on a journey to a mysterious island to retrieve an elixir of immortality.

Plot: martial arts, supernatural, ninja, based on manga, historical, combat, dark fantasy, edo period, ...

Cast

Toshiru014d Mifune

Tatsuya Nakadai

Yu014dko Tsukasa

Isuzu Yamada

Yojimbo (1961)

8.1 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: NR

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 Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Plot: samurai, swordplay, gambling, sword, bodyguard, black and white, fighting, period drama, ...

Time: 19th century

Place: japan

Cast

Toshiru014d Mifune

Tatsuya Nakadai

Keiju Kobayashi

Yu016bzu014d Kayama

Sanjuro (1962)

7.9 727 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

Plot: samurai, corruption, temple, fighter, black and white, jidaigeki, edo period, feudal japan, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Miyoko Shoji

Mami Koyama

Fumiko Orikasa

Showko Tsuda

Millennium Actress (2002)

7.9 1.1K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance

Country: Japan

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.

Style: surreal

Plot: key, earthquake, second sino-japanese war (1937-45), historical, recluse, adult animation, movie star, story within the story, ...

Place: japan, china

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai

Yu016bzu014d Kayama

Michiyo Aratama

Yu014dko Naitu014d

The Sword of Doom (1966)

7.7 265 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.

Plot: martial arts, samurai, based on novel or book, swordplay, murder, jidaigeki, edo period, shinsengumi, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Koji Yakusho

Takayuki Yamada

Yu016bsuke Iseya

Goro Inagaki

13 Assassins (2010)

7.3 1.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: Japan, United Kingdom

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: R

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.

Plot: suicide, mission, assassin, samurai, immortality, swordsman, massacre, battle, ...

Time: 19th century

Place: japan

Farewell Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Countdown

Cast

Dori Sakurada

Takeru Satoh

Yuichi Nakamura

Tamaki Matsumoto

Farewell Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Countdown (2008)

7.3 6 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, History

Country: Japan

Duration: 83 min.

Story: When the Imagin and Kohana take a trip to visit Ryotaro and Airi, they are attacked by the legendary Ghost Train, and onboard are two Imagin and the evil Kamen Rider Yuuki, who is none other than Ryotaro! But when all hope seems lost, a blue DenLiner appears, delivering someone claiming to be Kamen Rider New Den-O! Just who is he, and can he help everyone save Ryotaro and save time once again?

Plot: superhero, possession, time travel, train, super power, edo period, tokusatsu

Cast

Yukie Nakama

Joe Odagiri

Tomoka Kurotani

Erika Sawajiri

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (2005)

6.6 176 votes

Genre: Action

Country: Japan

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take place between the five best shinobi from each village. Gennosuke and Oboro's love is made even more impossible when they each got picked as the leader of the five to represent their respective villages.

Plot: samurai, ninja fighter, forbidden love, ninja, samurai sword, japanese soldier, jidaigeki, edo period, ...

Place: japan

Kamen Rider OOO Wonderful: The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals

Cast

Shu Watanabe

Ryosuke Miura

Riho Takada

Hiroaki Iwanaga

Kamen Rider OOO Wonderful: The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals (2011)

6.3 14 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, History

Country: Japan

Duration: 65 min.

Story: Leading an expedition in Germany, Kougami unseals the resting place of one of the alchemists that created the Core Medals in an effort to retrieve a set of lost Medals. However, upon the seal being undone, millions of Cell Medals erupt into a tower while creating a magical barrier that causes parts of Japan to flip over. As the alchemist reveals her plans to become a new OOO, Eiji and his friends are thrown into the past and must find their way back home and stop the alchemist before she destroys the world!

Plot: superhero, family relationships, super power, edo period