The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Drama • Country: Japan, France • Language: Japanese
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Writer
Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide
Cast
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Plot
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Writer
Eijirô Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa, Keiji Matsuzaki
Cast
Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Denjirô Ôkôchi
Plot
The daughter of a politically disgraced university professor struggles to find a place for herself in love and life, in the uncertain world of Japan leading into WWII.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Writer
Kazuo Kikuta, Akira Kurosawa, Senkichi Taniguchi
Cast
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô
Plot
A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Writer
Akira Kurosawa, Keinosuke Uekusa
Cast
Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe
Plot
During a Sunday trip into war-ravaged Tokyo, despairing Yuzo and optimistic Masako look for work and lodging, as well as affordable entertainments to pass the time.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Writer
Maxim Gorky, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
Cast
Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa
Plot
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese, English
Director
Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda
Writer
Ishirô Honda, Akira Kurosawa, Hyakken Uchida
Cast
Tatsuo Matsumura, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro
Plot
Following World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students.
