Kumazou, a "cleaner" for hire, encounters a woman attempting to commit suicide with her two young siblings one night. Kumazou gives them all the money he has and saves them from jumping off a bridge. The next morning, he wakes up to find that the woman and her sons have invaded his home and settled in…
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest w...
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon ha...
An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Pr...
Tajibee, a cockfighting expert from Kawachi, and Kitahachi, a carpenter from Edo, survive a shipwrec...
Geisha Yaeko is approached by a samurai who has just returned to Edo while she is painting a picture...
Shinza is known for his stubborn personality and continues to hold a low-ranking position as a magis...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
GOZEN is a jidageki (period piece) dramas. The word “gozen” refers to a feudal game held in the pres...
Echizen Fukui Domain. Futago Rokubei, who backs down even at the sight of a gecko, is called "Coward...
In the era of the ninth shogun, Ieshige, the Ooku of Edo Castle was a world of only women, with Toki...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari...
When the brutal Boshin War breaks out in Japan, a group of inmates on death row unite to defend a fo...
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular histori...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...