Kurosawas films

Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life.

Sugata returns to prove his judo mastery in a match against Western opponents.

World War II film about female volunteer workers at an optics plant who do their best to meet production targets.

A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.

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.

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An elderly woman is reaching close to her cut-off age during her last days with her family.

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

The legendary Forty-seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku.

Two Geisha with a connection to a young man deal with life's hardships.

Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.

The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.

A seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients' sexual advances to survive.

The heartwarming tale of Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who transcended from her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.

In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.

A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

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.

A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.

Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective seeks advice from a seasoned colleague while trying to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.

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.