In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Akitake Kōno, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Actors:George Tokoro, Hisashi Igawa, Kyōko Kagawa, Masayuki Yui, Tatsuo Matsumura

The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Hidetaka Yoshioka, Mieko Suzuki, Mitsunori Isaki, Sachiko Murase, Tomoko Otakara

A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

Genre: Drama,Fantasy

Actors:Akira Terao, Mieko Harada, Mitsuko Baisho, Mitsunori Isaki, Toshie Negishi

Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an ageing warlord divides his ...

Genre: Action,Drama,History

Actors:Akira Terao, Daisuke Ryū, Jinpachi Nezu, Mieko Harada, Tatsuya Nakadai

Akira Kurosawa’s lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order ...

Genre: Action,Drama,History,War

Actors:Hideji Ōtaki, Jinpachi Nezu, Kenichi Hagiwara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one ...

Genre: Adventure,Drama

Actors:B. Khorulev, Maksim Munzuk, Mikhail Bychkov, Vladimir Kremena, Yuriy Solomin

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Kin Sugai, Shinsuke Minami, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Yoshitaka Zushi, Yūko Kusunoki

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Miyuki Kuwano, Reiko Dan, Toshirō Mifune, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yūzō Kayama

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, Kyōko Kagawa, 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:Keiju Kobayashi, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirō Mifune, 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, Isuzu Yamada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirō Mifune, Yōko Tsukasa

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, Kyōko Kagawa, Masayuki Mori, Takeshi Katō, Toshirō Mifune

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:Kamatari Fujiwara, Minoru Chiaki, Misa Uehara, Susumu Fujita, Toshirō Mifune

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, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Eiko Miyoshi, Masao Shimizu, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai ...

Genre: Action,Drama

Actors:Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshio Inaba

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, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, 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:Masayuki Mori, 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, Noriko Sengoku, Toshirō Mifune, Yōko Katsuragi, Yoshiko Yamaguchi

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

Genre: Crime,Drama,Mystery

Actors:Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Minoru Chiaki, 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:Isamu Yamaguchi, Kenjiro Uemura, Miki Sanjō, 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:Eiko Miyoshi, Keiko Awaji, Noriko Sengoku, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

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, Michiyo Kogure, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

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:Denjirō Ōkōchi, Eiko Miyoshi, Haruko Sugimura, Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita

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:Denjirō Ōkōchi, Kenichi Enomoto, Masayuki Mori, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura

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, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, Yukiko Todoroki