With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic…
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers…
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed…
An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur’s son…
In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position…
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that…
A former soldier is branded an idiot because of his epileptic seizures caused by wartime…
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens…
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings…


