The very best of japanese movies.

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

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 crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

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

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.