On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi, Keizō Kawasaki, Ken Mitsuda, Mayumi Kurata, Michiko Ono, Shigeru Kōyama, Takashi Shimura, Yoshie Mizutani, Yukio Mishima

The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu’s underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there’s a contract on his ...

Genre: Action,Drama

Actors:Bunta Sugawara, Gorō Ibuki, Gorō Ōki, Hiroki Matsukata, Kei Satō, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mayumi Nagisa, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tsunehiko Watase

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father’s house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister ...

Genre: Comedy

Actors:Chieko Baisho, Chishū Ryū, Gajirō Satō, Gin Maeda, Keiroku Seki, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Sachiko Mitsumoto, Shin Morikawa, Taisaku Akino, Takashi Shimura

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Hiroshi Hijikata, Hisataro Hojo, Hōsei Komatsu, Jōtarō Senba, Kayo Mikimoto, Kyōsuke Machida, Shōbun Inoue, Takashi Shimura, Yumiko Nogawa

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the ...

Genre: Drama,History,War

Actors:Chishū Ryū, Etsushi Takahashi, Rokkō Toura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Sō Yamamura, Tadao Nakamaru, Takao Inoue, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshio Kosugi

During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein’s monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the ...

Genre: Horror,Science Fiction

Actors:Jun Tazaki, Kenji Sahara, Koji Furuhata, Kumi Mizuno, Nick Adams, Nobuo Nakamura, Susumu Fujita, Tadao Takashima, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Tsuchiya

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.

Genre: Action,Fantasy,Science Fiction,Thriller

Actors:Akihiko Hirata, Akiko Wakabayashi, Emi Ito, Hiroshi Koizumi, Hisaya Itō, Minoru Takada, Takashi Shimura, Yōsuke Natsuki, Yumi Ito, Yuriko Hoshi

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur’s son is ...

Genre: Crime,Drama,Mystery,Thriller

Actors:Isao Kimura, Jun Tazaki, Kenjirō Ishiyama, Kyōko Kagawa, Nobuo Nakamura, Takashi Shimura, Takeshi Katō, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirō Mifune

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In ...

Genre: Action,Comedy,Drama

Actors:Kamatari Fujiwara, Keiju Kobayashi, Masao Shimizu, Reiko Dan, Takako Irie, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirō Mifune, Yūnosuke Itō, Yūzō Kayama

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim ...

Genre: Action,Drama,History

Actors:Akira Takarada, Makoto Satō, Matsumoto Hakuō I, Seizaburō Kawazu, Tadao Takashima, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Toshirō Mifune, Yōsuke Natsuki, Yūzō Kayama

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the ...

Genre: Drama,Thriller

Actors:Daisuke Katō, Eijirō Tōno, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Isuzu Yamada, Seizaburō Kawazu, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirō Mifune, Yōko Tsukasa, Yōsuke Natsuki

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan’s Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl ...

Genre: Drama,War

Actors:Aiko Mimasu, Jun Tazaki, Keiju Kobayashi, Koji Tsuruta, Makoto Satō, Misa Uehara, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Toshirō Mifune, Yōsuke Natsuki

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by ...

Genre: Action,History,War

Actors:Akihiko Hirata, Isuzu Yamada, Jun Tazaki, Kyōko Kagawa, Tadao Nakamaru, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga, Yōsuke Natsuki, Yuriko Hoshi

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native ...

Genre: Adventure,Fantasy,Science Fiction

Actors:Akihiko Hirata, Akihiro Tayama, Emi Ito, Frankie Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Jerry Itō, Ken Uehara, Kyōko Kagawa, Takashi Shimura, Yumi Ito

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Aiko Mimasu, Akira Takarada, Fubuki Koshiji, Isuzu Yamada, Mitsuko Kusabue, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yōko Tsukasa, Yoshie Mizutani, Yumi Shirakawa

In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and ...

Genre: Crime,Drama,Thriller

Actors:Kamatari Fujiwara, Kō Nishimura, Kyōko Kagawa, Kyū Sazanka, Masayuki Mori, Someshō Matsumoto, Takashi Shimura, Takeshi Katō, Tatsuya Mihashi, Toshirō Mifune

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but ...

Genre: Action,Drama,Fantasy

Actors:Akira Kubo, Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno, Kyōko Kagawa, Misa Uehara, Setsuko Hara, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Yōko Tsukasa

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Ikio Sawamura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kōji Mitsui, Minoru Chiaki, Misa Uehara, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, Takeo Oikawa, Toshirō Mifune, Yū Fujiki

Returning to their lord’s castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part ...

Genre: Drama,History

Actors:Akira Kubo, Gen Shimizu, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Isuzu Yamada, Kichijirō Ueda, Kokuten Kōdō, Minoru Chiaki, Takamaru Sasaki, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Bokuzen Hidari, Haruo Tanaka, Kamatari Fujiwara, Makoto Kobori, Miki Odagiri, Minoru Chiaki, Minosuke Yamada, Nobuo Kaneko, Shinichi Himori, Takashi Shimura

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Chieko Higashiyama, Eijirō Yanagi, Kokuten Kōdō, Masayuki Mori, Minoru Chiaki, Noriko Sengoku, Setsuko Hara, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Eitarō Ozawa, Fumiko Okamura, Ichirō Shimizu, Kōji Mitsui, Noriko Sengoku, Shinichi Himori, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Yōko Katsuragi

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.

Genre: Crime,Drama,Mystery

Actors:Daisuke Katō, Kichijirō Ueda, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Minoru Chiaki, Noriko Honma, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

A young idealistic doctor works at his father’s clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Chieko Nakakita, Isamu Yamaguchi, Kenichi Miyajima, Kenjiro Uemura, Masatoki Sasaki, Miki Sanjō, Noriko Sengoku, Seiji Izumi, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes ...

Genre: Crime,Drama,Mystery,Thriller

Actors:Chōko Iida, Eijirō Tōno, Eiko Miyoshi, Keiko Awaji, Noriko Honma, Noriko Sengoku, Reikichi Kawamura, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Yasushi Nagata

Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Chieko Nakakita, Eitarō Shindō, Masao Shimizu, Michiyo Kogure, Noriko Sengoku, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Shizuko Kasagi, Taiji Tonoyama, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Akitake Kōno, Eizaburô Sakauchi, Fumio Ōmachi, Kokuten Kōdō, Nobumitsu Mochizuki, Setsuko Wakayama, Taizō Fukami, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshio Kosugi

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the ...

Genre: Drama,History,War

Actors:Akitake Kōno, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Eiko Miyoshi, Haruko Sugimura, Kokuten Kōdō, Masao Shimizu, Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Taizō Fukami, Takashi Shimura

Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to ...

Genre: Adventure,Drama,History,Thriller

Actors:Akitake Kōno, Dekao Yokoo, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Hanshiro Iwai, Kenichi Enomoto, Masayuki Mori, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, Yasuo Hisamatsu, Yoshio Kosugi

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Denjirō Ōkōchi, Ichirō Sugai, Kokuten Kōdō, Ranko Hanai, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata, Sugisaku Aoyama, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Kosugi, Yukiko Todoroki