Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto
Rinosuke is a samurai without pity or moral qualities. When he is selected to participate in his school's fencing competition, his rival's wife begs him to give up the fight and offers himself to her in return. He accepts the woman's offer, but kills her husband in the fight and...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Susumu Fujita, Takeshi Katô
After the detonation of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese army and government are faced with demands from the Allies for unconditional surrender. The Japanese defense minister leads officers who believe that even to the death of all Japanese citizens, they must continue to fight and...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Ikio Sawamura, Susumu Fujita, Hideyo Amamoto
This movie is the story of a group of samurai who plan to attack the prime minister but find out there is an informer among them. Some of the samurai are assigned to investigate about the people in the group, and in this way, the complicated story of Naliro's life is gradually revealed. Naliru is a poor samurai who didn't have a job before joining the group and hopes to rise to higher ranks by completing his samurai mission.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Hideyo Amamoto, Yasuzô Ogawa, Rinsaku Ogata
Two ronin, a samurai and a farmer, get caught up in the complex and dangerous game of the local authorities and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yûnosuke Itô
During World War II, a Japanese soldier joins a "kamikaze" mission against an American ship and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ikio Sawamura, Hideyo Amamoto, Shôji Ôki, Naoya Kusakawa
A college teacher, named Shinji Keiko, returns home one day to find the target of a murder frenzy. He miraculously uses other agents and with the help of the reporter...
Stars: Hiroshi Tachikawa, Ikio Sawamura, Hideyo Amamoto, Naoya Kusakawa, Yasuzô Ogawa
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman aims to depict the daily life of an ordinary salaried man. This man decides to follow his own way of life and use it to write a novel. Interesting things happen to him until...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Daigo Kusano, Yûji Hamada, Shintarô Katsu, Hiroshi Tanaka
Zatwicki is trying to put an end to the unrest caused by a mob on a small village. But the leader of the group is none other than Yujimbo the hero. Will these two heroes get along or not?
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Ichirô Nakatani, Sachio Sakai, Hideyo Amamoto, Nakajirô Tomita
A poor servant, who dressed in the uniform of the royal army and introduced himself instead of one of them, returns to his village after ten years to root out corruption...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ichirô Nakatani, Sachio Sakai, Yutaka Sada
Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War IIs Battle of Okinawa - a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead.
Stars: Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto, Shôji Ôki, Yû Fujiki, Kyûsaku Shimada
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place between captors and captive, to the difficulty and eventual astonishment of the prefectures Chief of Police.
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Naoto Takenaka, Kyûsaku Shimada, Ken'ichi Takitô
A samurai who has lived a successful life and gained great fame returns to his hometown. An urban businessman has some ideas to profit from his presence and intends to deceive him...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Seizaburô Kawazu, Yôsuke Natsuki, Ikio Sawamura
Japanese police detective Sabo Fujika has been convicted of corruption, and is now forced to move to the city of Kojian...
Stars: Ichirô Nakatani, Sachio Sakai, Senkichi Ômura, Yukiko Shimazaki, Yûzô Kayama
Jiro returns to his hometown after working in Alaska for a long time. After entering his hometown, he finds out that his father was killed. Jiro's father was the mayor of the city, and in his absence, several criminal gangs have taken control of the city. He gets very angry about this and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Sachio Sakai, Hideyo Amamoto, Naoya Kusakawa
During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the senator joined a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate to fight the imperial forces. But the senator's friendship with a pickpocket changes its direction with the wind and...
