Best Japanese Period Dramas on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Japanese Period Dramas on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 7 titles in category code 1402191. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. The Magnificent Nine (2016)
Rated 6.5/10 on IMDb, from 2016, 2h 09m. Residents of an impoverished and overtaxed town decide to fight back by outwitting their oppressors through a risky financial scheme.
2. Hanayoi Dochu (2014)
Rated 6.3/10 on IMDb, from 2014, 1h 42m. High-class courtesan Asagiri plans to finish her indenture and leave the Yoshiwara pleasure district of Edo, until she meets the handsome Hanjiro.
3. Honnouji Hotel (2017)
Rated 6.3/10 on IMDb, from 2017, 1h 58m. An aimless young woman checks into a hotel and time slips to Honnouji Temple in 1582, the year feudal lord Oda Nobunaga changed the course of history.
4. Time Trip App (2014)
Rated 5.9/10 on IMDb, from 2014, 1h 47m. An earnest high school history teacher and her excitable students travel back to the Edo era and try really hard not to alter the course of time.
5. Ooku (2006)
From 2006, 2h 06m. Two factions struggle for control over the child shogun within Edo Castle, leaving senior attendant Ejima caught between friendship and true love.
6. Samurai Hustle Returns (2016)
From 2016, 1h 59m. After fulfilling his duty to visit the shogun, feudal lord Masaatsu Naito and his entourage must return home immediately to quell a peasant uprising.
7. Free and Easy Samurai Edition (1998)
From 1998, 1h 57m. In the series's medieval-era entry, a traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.