Avainsana Jidaigeki

Maailmankuulu seikkailuelokuva ja Akira Kurosawan pääteos kylästä, joka palkkaa muutaman samurain turvakseen kiertelevää rosvojoukkiota vastaan.

1630-luvun Japani. Isännöttömät samurait, roninit, alkavat menettää asemaansa ja merkitystään. Kunniakas tapa kuolla on tehdä harakiri, rituaali-itsemurha. Hanshiro Tsugumo saapuu feodaaliherran luo etsimään paikkaa harakirilleen, mutta tämä alkaakin puhua nuoremmasta aikaisemmin saapuneesta samuraista, ja tilanne muuttuu toiseksi.

Nainen ja hänen miniänsä selviytyvät onnekkaasti hengissä sisällissodasta 1300-luvulla. Toimeen tullakseen naiset tappavat samuraita ja ryöstävät nämä. Kun naisten naapuri Hachi palaa sodasta, hän aloittaa suhteen nuoremman naisen kanssa. Vanhempi nainen keksii kuitenkin kauhistuttavan keinon, jolla yrittää saada nuoremman naisen jättämään rakastajansa. Hyytävä elokuva kuuluu japanilaisten elokuvien kaanoniin ja on kriitikoiden suosikki ympäri maailman.

Yksinäinen, miekkaa kantava vaeltaja, johon tutustuimme elokuvassa Yojimbo – onnensoturi, kuulee sattumalta muutamien nuorten sotureiden välisen kiihkeän keskustelun. He ovat kiihtyneitä lahjonnasta ja petturuudesta, jota tapahtuu heidän johtajansa poissa ollessa. He päättävät iskeä takaisin, mutta eivät ole varmoja miten. Niinpä tämä mies, joka hallitsee miekan jalon taidon paremmin kuin kukaan muu, päättää auttaa heitä.

Rashomon – paholaisen temppeli, myös Rashomon – paholaisen portti on vuonna 1950 ensi-iltansa saanut japanilainen elokuva. Sen on ohjannut Akira Kurosawa, ja elokuva perustuu kahteen Ryūnosuke Akutagawan kirjoittamaan tarinaan. Rashomon sai Venetsian elokuvajuhlien Kultaisen leijonan vuonna 1951. Rashomon oli Kurosawan läpimurtoelokuva[1], ja sen jälkeen yleensäkin japanilainen elokuva on noussut kansainväliseen suosioon. Elokuvaa pidetään yhtenä Kurosawan parhaista.Elokuvassa kuvataan murhaa ja raiskausta neljän eri todistajan kertomien selostusten kautta. Elokuvan juoni asettaa totuuden luonteen kyseenalaiseksi. Katsojan on kuitenkin määrä omaksua epätoivon sijaan myönteinen asenne – kuten köyhä mies, joka ottaa hylätyn lapsen suojaansa. Kurosawa poikkeaa elokuvaperinteestä, jossa roolihenkilö voi valehdella, mutta näytetty takauma kertoo touuden. Elokuva ei kuitenkaan torju katsojaa, vaan päinvastoin vetää hänet mukaan pohtimaan totuutta.

Kagemusha – varjokenraali kertoo mahtavan Takeda-klaanin romahtamisesta ja tuhosta Japanin sotaisella Sengoku-kaudella 1570-luvulla, samurai-ylimys Takeda Shingenin kohtalon kautta. Elokuvassa Takeda Shingeniä ja tämän kaksoisolentoa (kagemushaa) esittää Kurosawan luottonäyttelijöihin kuulunut Tatsuya Nakadai.

Mestariohjaajan kuuluisin teos, humanistinen runoelma savenvalajan ja hänen soturiksi haluavan lankonsa perheistä maata ravistelevan sisällissodan keskellä. Elokuva voitti Hopeisen leijonan parhaasta ohjauksesta Venetsian elokuvajuhlilla 1953.

Akira Kurosawan tyylikäs samurai-klassikko toimi esikuvana Kouralliselle dollareita. Isännätön samurai alkaa ovelasti pelata kylän kilpailevia sotaherroja toisiaan vastaan.

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.

A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan.

Mini-drama with a historical character having a smartphone.

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.

Set in the 18th century, the show follows the Shogun Yoshimune, who likes to disguise himself as a low-ranking samurai and go into his capital of Edo to see the life of the common man, as well as to seek out and punish evildoers who would hurt his citizens. He is aided by Magistrate Oo'oka and a vivacious fireman, Tatsugoro, as well as a rotating cast of other recurring characters. Along with Zenigata Heiji and Mito Kōmon, it ranks among the longest-running series in the jidaigeki genre. Like so many other jidaigeki, it falls in the category of kanzen-chōaku, loosely, "rewarding good and punishing evil."

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...

On March 23, 1585, Japanese Christian envoys visited Pope Gregory XIII at the Papal Court in Rome, Italy. The drama begins 45 years earlier - in 1540 outside Lisbon, Portugal.

Yoshitsune is a Japanese television drama series originally broadcast between 9 January and 11 December 2005, with a three-part special compilation being aired from 24 December to 25 December 2005. The 44th Taiga Drama, the original work is by Miyao Tomiko, screenplay by Kaneko Narito and starring Hideaki Takizawa.

In this gripping period drama, Matsudaira Ukon, the younger brother of the 11th Tokugawa Shogun Ienari, lives in the city as Yabutaro, a doctor in the Ukiyo Koji district, while fighting the evil that has infested the city of Edo.

Murasaki Shikibu (Yoshitaka Yuriko), the heroine of this story, wrote the bestseller 'The Tale of Genji,' transcending a thousand years during the Heian period. She weaves the story of Hikaru Genji, fueled by her love for Fujiwara no Michinaga (Emoto Tasuku), with her hidden passion and incomparable imagination. It is a tale of a woman who lived with unchanging love in an ever-changing world. (From TV JAPAN)

The drama series depicts the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616). Takechiyo (who later becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu) was born as the son of a poor and powerless daimyo. Takechiyo lost his father during a war. He grew up lonely and away from his mother. Takechiyo didn't have a clue about what his future would hold. He then has a dramatic meeting with the young Oda Nobunaga.

During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo, and all across the Kansai region, stealing large sums of money with skillful techniques. They only target the very wealthy and never kill or injure people. They appear with the clouds and disappear like the mist. On the night that the beautiful Ochiyo is to become the bride of a dry goods dealer, a large amount of money hidden inside the shop is stolen. The gang disappears without injuring anyone. It was a two-year plan to marry Ochiyo off so that she could bring them in. The leader of this gang is Kumokiri Nizaemon, the greatest bandit of all time. He keeps a rein on his highly-skilled and notorious followers Nanabake no Ochiyo, Kinezumi no Kichigoro, Subashiri no Kumagoro, Ingakozo Rokunosuke and others.

Following the ascension to power of Taira no Kiyomori, the Minamoto clan is exiled. Minamoto no Yoritomo meets Masako, the sister of Hōjō Yoshitoki and later marries her. Following this marriage, the gears of Yoshitoki's destiny begin to turn.

Fumi becomes Genzui Kusaka’s wife. During the turbulent times of the closing days for the Tokugawa shogunate, she lives positively and tries to keep up Shoin Yoshida's will. Shoin Yoshida is her older brother and intellectual.

Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of 19th-century Japanese historical figures Iwasaki Yatarō and Sakamoto Ryōma. It has been announced that the series will be aired in several other countries, for example Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.

The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the highest rank in Ooku, the inner palace of the Edo castle where women related to the reigning shogun resided. Iesada dies soon after their marriage and Atsuhime assumes the name Tenshoin at the age of 23. She exerts herself for the Tokugawa clan and for the nation during the upheaval in the Meiji Restoration, headed by those from Satsuma.

Villain or hero, Taira no Kiyomori changed Japanese history forever 900 years ago. Without ever knowing his real father, Kiyomori was raised as a samurai. Together with his stepfather, he wiped out piracy along Japan's western coast, becoming a full-fledged warrior samurai. In an age when samurai were looked down on as members of the lower class, Kiyomori was skillful at winning the hearts and minds of the people. By rounding up surrendered pirates and achieving other successes, Kiyomori eventually became the de facto ruler of Japan.

Shadow Warriors is a Japanese television jidaigeki show featuring Sonny Chiba that ran for four seasons in the early 1980s. Chiba played different ninja characters in each series. In the first series he played Hattori Hanzō III, in second one he played Tsuge Shinpachi, in the third one he played Tarao Hanzō, in the fourth series and in Bakumatsu Hen, he played Hattori Hanzō XV. In the 2003 direct-to-DVD series Shin Kage no Gundan he played Hattori Hanzō I.

Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima Prefecture). His simple honesty caught the attention of its charismatic feudal lord of Satsuma, Shimazu Nariakira. Nariakira’s assertion that the love of people is what will enrich and strengthen the nation captivated Saigo who took on Nariakira’s secret mission and eventually became a key person for Satsuma. Not a portrait of him survives today and much of his life is a mystery. He is a man who was twice exiled and thrice married. He overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate with exceptional bravery and action. Although he accomplished the restoration, he lost his life in a fight with the new Meiji government.

Yae no Sakura is a 2013 Japanese television series. It is the 52nd NHK taiga drama. The story focuses on Niijima Yae, who is portrayed by Haruka Ayase.