Akira Kurosawa

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 Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.

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.