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: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Masaki Kobayashi
Writer
Shinobu Hashimoto, Yasuhiko Takiguchi
Cast
Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Gô Katô
Plot
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
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 • 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: Adventure, War • Country: USA • Language: English, Japanese
Director
John Boorman
Writer
Alexander Jacobs, Eric Bercovici, Reuben Bercovitch
Cast
Lee Marvin, Toshirô Mifune
Plot
During World War II, an American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain are deserted on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. There, they must cease their hostility and cooperate if they want to survive, but will they?
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Kihachi Okamoto
Writer
Shinobu Hashimoto, Jiromasa Gunji
Cast
Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama
Plot
When a samurai clan attempting to assassinate a feudal lord begin to suspect a traitor, they start an investigation on a ronin who is helping their cause.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Hiroshi Inagaki
Writer
Toshio Yasumi
Cast
Yûzô Kayama, Chûsha Ichikawa, Toshirô Mifune
Plot
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Kihachi Okamoto
Writer
Kihachi Okamoto, Kan Shimozawa, Tetsurô Yoshida
Cast
Toshirô Mifune, Shintarô Katsu, Ayako Wakao
Plot
Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same...
Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great honor usually conferred upon the wealthiest and most resp...
Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt officials and businessmen.
