JAPONESES

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

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

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

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

The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.

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.

Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.

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

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 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.

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

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

Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn't the most important man in his workplace.

The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.

A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.

A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.

A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.