Edo movies About 150 years ago, The revolution called "Meiji-ishin" occurred and after that Japan was modernized very quickly. Before that, Japanese life style was quite old-fashioned. We hadn't used

Edo movies

About 150 years ago, the revolution called "Meiji-ishin" occurred* 1 and after that Japan was modernized very quickly.
Before that, the Japanese life style was quite old-fashioned. We hadn't used electricity nor steam engines. Japan was in its Medieval Age until only 150 years ago.
We call this age the "Edo era" or "Tokugawa period".
I like the Edo era very much.
It is very fascinating.
If time machine is invented I want to go to Edo era/If I had a time machine I would travel back in time to the Edo era*2.

I love watching dramas and movies that are set in the Edo era.
Although they are now making very less much fewer *3 dramas of the Edo era than before.
When I was a child, we had about ten Edo dramas in on the air(?)*4 a week but now we have only one or two.
It's too bad a shame.
The reason of that/for it *5 seems to be that that it costs much more money than for modern movies.
They need some knowledges *6 to shoot Edo dramas and movies. It must be passed down to the next generation. I want them to keep making Edo movies.
If they stop making Edo movies at all entirely *7, the knowledges *6 will go extinct forever and we can never won't get to see new Edo movies anymore.

I don't want it to happen.

* 1 "The [something] revolution occurred" isn't incorrect but it has a slightly negative tone to it, which is fine in this case since you like the Edo period. Though if you want to sound a little more natural you can change the wording to "the Meiji-ishin revolution occurred" by removing the extra "called" and swapping Meiji-ishin and revolution around.
* 2 There's nothing wrong with what you wrote, it just sounds a bit strange. When we talk about what we would do if time machines existed, we usually say "if I had a time machine I would [...]" which is more natural.
* 3 "Very less" is incorrect. You can change it to simply "less" but if you want to stress that there are not nearly as many as before you should say "much fewer."
* 4 The way this is worded makes it a little difficult to understand exactly what you meant and it could be interpreted as 10 whole dramas being scheduled each week. I'm assuming you were talking about TV dramas, so in this case "on the air" (meaning that 10 different shows are airing in the same period of a week, not necessarily that they are shown in their entirety in a week) is more natural. The expression "on the air" means a show is being broadcast; the signal which you need to watch it travels through the air, so you could say the show is "on" the air.
* 5 "For it" makes the intended meaning a bit more clear and sounds more natural than "of that."
* 6 "Knowledge" is an uncountable noun, meaning we always say it in its singular form. Furthermore, in the first example, I think replacing this word with something else would make just what they need more clear. They might need a historian, a whole crew of people who can make authentic costumes, and so on. You could also say "they need to know a lot about the Edo period to make a drama of it" which works just as well.
* 7 "At all" is not correct in this case. You could say "altogether" or "entirely."

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