Jidaigeki (period dramas)
113 films, oldest first within each decade.
1920s (5)
- Chōkon (1926) – Daisuke Itō
- A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1927) – Daisuke Itō
- Chuji’s Travel Diary I: Koshu tate hen (1927) – Daisuke Itō
- Chuji’s Travel Diary II: Story of Bloody Shinshu (1927) – Daisuke Itō
- Chuji’s Travel Diary III: The Chuji Patrol Episode (1927) – Daisuke Itō
1930s (3)
- The Million Ryo Pot (1935) – Sadao Yamanaka
- Akanishi Kakita (1936) – Mansaku Itami
- The Giant (1938) – Mansaku Itami
1940s (2)
1950s (19)
- Five Men of Edo (1951) – Daisuke Itō
- Awa Odori Tanuki Battle (1954) – Bin Katō
- Sansho the Bailiff (1954) – Kenji Mizoguchi
- Christ in Bronze (1955) – Minoru Shibuya
- Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) – Hiroshi Inagaki
- Akō Rōshi: Ten no Maki, Chi no Maki (1956) – Sadatsugu Matsuda
- Gonpachi (1956) – Kenji Misumi
- Nazo no yurei-sen (1956) – Sadatsugu Matsuda
- Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) – Hiroshi Inagaki
- Three Women Around Yoshinaka (1956) – Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Tsukigata Hanpeita: Hana no maki; Arashi no maki (1956) – Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Yagyū Ren'yasai: Hiden Tsukikage-shō (1956) – Katsuhiko Tasaka
- Adauchi sōzenji baba (1957) – Masahiro Makino
- The 7th Secret Courier for Edo (1958) – Kazuo Mori
- The Bored Hatamoto Samurai (1958) – Sadatsugu Matsuda
- Travels of Lord Mito (1958) – Kenji Misumi
- Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka (1959) – Tomu Uchida
- Life of an Expert Swordsman (1959) – Hiroshi Inagaki
- Samurai Vendetta (1959) – Kazuo Mori
1960s (31)
- The Story of Osaka Castle (1961) – Hiroshi Inagaki
- Enter Kyōshirō Nemuri the Swordman (1963) – Tokuzō Tanaka
- New Tale of Zatoichi (1963) – Tokuzō Tanaka
- The Lost World of Sinbad (1963) – Senkichi Taniguchi
- Warring Clans (1963) – Kihachi Okamoto
- Zatoichi the Fugitive (1963) – Tokuzō Tanaka
- Zoku Shinobi no Mono (1963) – Satsuo Yamamoto
- Assassination (1964) – Masahiro Shinoda
- Kunoichi ninpō (1964) – Sadao Nakajima
- Nemuri Kyoshiro: She-Devil Slaying Sword (1964) – Kazuo Ikehiro
- Revenge (1964) – Tadashi Imai
- Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Adventure (1964) – Kenji Misumi
- The Scarlet Camellia (1964) – Yoshitarō Nomura
- Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964) – Kazuo Ikehiro
- Akuto (Film) (1965) – Kaneto Shindō
- Ninpō-chushingura (1965) – Yasuto Hasegawa
- Red Beard (1965) – Akira Kurosawa
- Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Fire (1965) – Kenji Misumi
- Sword Devil (1965) – Kenji Misumi
- Sword of the Beast (1965) – Hideo Gosha
- Daimajin (1966) – Kimiyoshi Yasuda
- Sleepy Eyes of Death: A Trail of Traps (1967) – Kazuo Ikehiro
- Kill! (1968) – Kihachi Okamoto
- Sleepy Eyes of Death: Hell Is a Woman (1968) – Tokuzō Tanaka
- Goyokin (1969) – Hideo Gosha
- Hiken Yaburi (1969) – Kazuo Ikehiro
- Lady Sazen and the Drenched Swallow Sword (1969) – Kimiyoshi Yasuda
- Red Lion (1969) – Kihachi Okamoto
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman (1969) – Kazuo Mori
- Sleepy Eyes of Death: Castle Menagerie (1969) – Kazuo Ikehiro
- The Magoichi Saga (1969) – Kenji Misumi
1970s (14)
- Bakumatsu (1970) – Daisuke Itō
- Machibuse (1970) – Hiroshi Inagaki
- Onna Gokuakuchō (1970) – Kazuo Ikehiro
- Hissatsu Shikakenin (1972) – Kinji Fukasaku
- Hissatsu Shiokinin (1973) – Eiichi Kudo
- Hissatsu shikakenin (1973) – Yūsuke Watanabe
- Kiso Kaido Isogitabi (1973) – Kazuo Mori
- Professional Killers Assassins Quarry (1973) – Yūsuke Watanabe
- Professional Killers Assignment By Night (1974) – Masahisa Sadanaga
- Edo no Kaze (1975) – Kazuo Mori
- Hissatsu Shiokiya Kagyō (1975) – Eiichi Kudo
- Hissatsu Karakurinin Keppūhen (1976) – Eiichi Kudo
- Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978) – Hideo Gosha
- Jigoku no mushi (1979) – Tatsuo Yamada
1980s (4)
- Shogun Assassin (1980) – Robert Houston
- Hissatsu: Sure Death (1984) – Masahisa Sadanaga
- Hissatsu! III Ura ka Omote ka (1986) – Eiichi Kudo
- Sure Death 4: Revenge (1987) – Kinji Fukasaku
1990s (5)
- Sure Death 5 (1991) – Toshio Masuda
- The Great Shogunate Battle (1991) – Toshio Masuda
- Kaettekita Kogarashi Monjirō (1993) – Kon Ichikawa
- Hissatsu! Mondo Shisu (1996) – Masahisa Sadanaga
- Hissatsu! Shamisenya no Yuji (1999) – Shigeru Ishihara
2000s (13)
- Sakuya: Slayer of Demons (2000) – Tomoo Haraguchi
- Chūshingura 1/47 (2001) – Shunsaku Kawake
- I Went To (2001) – Kon Ichikawa
- Kah-chan (2001) – Kon Ichikawa
- Onmyōji (2001) – Yōjirō Takita
- Vengeance for Sale (2002) – Kihachi Okamoto
- Onmyoji 2 (2003) – Yōjirō Takita
- Samurai Resurrection (2003) – Hideyuki Hirayama
- Izo (2004) – Takashi Miike
- Nagurimono: Love & Kill (2005) – Hideaki Sunaga
- Three for the Road (2007) – Hideyuki Hirayama
- Tsubaki Sanjuro (2007) – Yoshimitsu Morita
- Hana no Hokori (2008)
2010s (11)
- Saya Zamuraï (2010) – Hitoshi Matsumoto
- Sword of Desperation (2010) – Hideyuki Hirayama
- The Kunoichi: Ninja Girl (2011) – Seiji Chiba
- A Tale of Samurai Cooking (2013) – Yūzō Asahara
- A DUEL TALE (2015) – Shigemichi Sugita
- Onmyōji (2015) – Tomohiko Yamashita
- Samurai Hustle Returns (2016) – Katsuhide Motoki
- Sanada 10 Braves (2016) – Yukihiko Tsutsumi
- Tatara Samurai (2016) – Yoshinari Nishikoori
- Falling Camellia (2018) – Daisaku Kimura
- Flea-picking Samurai (2018)
2020s (6)
- Viddana (2020) – Khrystyna Syvolap
- Okiku and the World (2023) – Junji Sakamoto
- A Samurai in Time (2024) – Jun'ichi Yasuda
- Muromachi Burai (2025) – Yū Irie
- Revenge In Kobikicho (2026) – Takashi Minamoto
- The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026) – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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