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The Birth of California Shamisen

Kevin Masaya Kmetz, an American musician picked up a Japanese traditional instrument called, Tsugaru Shamisen. This film follows Kevin as he journeys to Japan and performs in Japan...

Junko's Shamisen

A young Japanese orphan, and her mystical friend, exact poetic justice on a malevolent samurai lord.

Ghostly Tales: The Shamisen

A popular dance master in Edo meets a yakuza man, and the maddened master is killed in the end of their tremendous love affair. The master becomes a vengeful spirit that haunts the...

The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen

Mitsue is a popular stage actress and the lover of a shamisen player named Seijuro. She jealously murders two other objects of his affection: Okiyo, a young woman from a samurai fa...

Tsugaru Shamisen: The World of Michihiro Sato

art documentary and part concert, this video features Michihiro Sato, the preeminent player of the Tsugaru shamisen -- a three-stringed instrument vital to Japanese folk music -- p...

Nitaboh

At a young age, Nitaroh is stricken with an illness that leaves him blind. He inherits the shamisen guitar once used by his mother and is taught its basics by a blind travelling sh...

Love New and Old

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

Only Love You

Jin Se is on a mission to infiltrate the palace when she unexpectedly reunites with her former lover, General Gu Yunshen. As old feelings resurface, her plan for revenge is jeopard...