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Directed by Akira KurosawaOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Alternate history filmsActors Takashi Shimura,
Toshiro Mifune,
Isao Kimura,
Seiji Miyaguchi,
Yoshio Inaba,
Daisuke KatōRating85%
Marauding bandits approach a rural mountain village, but their chief decides to spare it until after the harvest because they had raided it before. The plan is overheard by a farmer who tells the rest of village. Lamenting their fate, three farmers ask Gisaku, the village elder and miller, for advice. He declares they should hire samurai to defend the village. Since they have no money to offer, Gisaku tells them to find hungry samurai., 1h45
Directed by Akira KurosawaOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Théâtre,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Political films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on works by William Shakespeare,
Films about royaltyActors Toshiro Mifune,
Isuzu Yamada,
Takashi Shimura,
Minoru Chiaki,
Akira Kubo,
Kokuten KōdōRating79%
Generals Miki and Washizu are Samurai commanders under a local lord, Lord Tsuzuki, who reigns in the castle of the Spider's Web Forest. After defeating the lord's enemies in battle, they return to Tsuzuki's castle. On their way through the thick forest surrounding the castle, they meet a spirit, who foretells their future. The spirit tells them that today Washizu will be named Lord of the Northern Garrison and Miki will now be commander of the first fortress. She then foretells that Washizu will eventually become Lord of Spiderweb Castle, and finally she tells Miki that his son will also become lord of the castle., 3h5
Directed by Akira KurosawaOrigin JaponGenres DramaThemes Medical-themed films,
Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts filmsActors Toshiro Mifune,
Kinuyo Tanaka,
Takashi Shimura,
Yūzō Kayama,
Kyōko Kagawa,
Chishū RyūRating82%
The film takes place in Koishikawa, a district of Edo (the former name of the city of Tokyo), in the 19th century. Young Dr. Noboru Yasumoto (Yūzō Kayama) is the film's protagonist. Trained in a Dutch medical school in Nagasaki, the arrogant Yasumoto aspires to the status of personal physician of the Shogunate, a position currently held by a close relative; his father is already a well-established, highly competent physician. Yasumoto believes that he should progress through the safe, and well-protected, army structure of medical education. However, for Yasumoto's post-graduate medical training, he has been assigned to a rural clinic under the guidance of Akahige ("Red Beard"), Dr. Kyojō Niide (played by Toshiro Mifune). Dr. Niide may seem like a tyrannical task master, but in reality he is a compassionate clinic director. Initially, Yasumoto is livid at his posting, believing that he has little to gain from working under Akahige. Dr. Yasumoto feels that Dr. Niide is only interested in his medical notes and soon rebels against the clinic director. He refuses to wear his uniform, disdains the food and spartan environment, and enters the forbidden garden where he meets "The Mantis" (Kyōko Kagawa), a mysterious patient that only Dr. Niide can treat., 1h28
Directed by Akira KurosawaOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Seafaring films,
Films about sexuality,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Rape in fiction,
Martial arts filmsActors Toshiro Mifune,
Masayuki Mori,
Machiko Kyō,
Takashi Shimura,
Minoru Chiaki,
Noriko HonmaRating81%
The film opens on a woodcutter (木樵り; Kikori, played by Takashi Shimura) and a priest (旅法師; Tabi Hōshi, Minoru Chiaki) sitting beneath the Rajōmon city gate to stay dry in a downpour. A commoner (Kichijiro Ueda) joins them and they tell him that they have witnessed a disturbing story, which they then begin recounting to him. The woodcutter claims he found the body of a murdered samurai three days earlier while looking for wood in the forest; upon discovering the body, he says, he fled in a panic to notify the authorities. The priest says that he saw the samurai with his wife traveling the same day the murder happened. Both men were then summoned to testify in court, where they met the captured bandit Tajōmaru (多襄丸), who claimed responsibility for killing the samurai and raping his wife., 1h50
Directed by Akira KurosawaOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Toshiro Mifune,
Tatsuya Nakadai,
Yōko Tsukasa,
Isuzu Yamada,
Takashi Shimura,
Daisuke KatōRating81%
It is 1860, and the era of the Tokugawa shogunate is coming to a close. A rōnin, or masterless samurai, wanders into a small town divided by a gang war between two gangsters, Seibei and Ushitora. Ushitora used to be Seibei's right-hand man, until Seibei decided that his son Yoichiro would succeed him. Tazaemon, the silk merchant and mayor, backs Seibei, while Tokuemon the sake brewer is allied with Ushitora. Gonji, the owner of an inn, advises the stranger to leave while he can, but after sizing up the situation, the rōnin tells Gonji that the town would be better off with both sides dead, and that he intends to stay., 59minutes
Directed by Akira KurosawaOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Théâtre,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Films based on playsActors Denjirō Ōkōchi,
Takashi Shimura,
Susumu Fujita,
Ken'ichi Enomoto,
Masayuki Mori,
Akitake KōnoRating66%
In 1185, the Heike family fights against the Minamoto family. After a bloody naval battle in the Pacific Ocean, Yoshitsune Minamoto defeats the enemy and the survivors commit suicide. When the triumphant Yoshitsune arrives in Kyoto, his brother, the Shogun Yoritomo, is uneasy and orders his men to arrest Yoshitsune. However, Yoshitsune escapes with six loyal samurai led by Benkei and they head to the country of his only friend Hidehira Fujiwara. Near the border, after crossing the forest disguised as monks, their porter discovers that they are Yoshitsune and the six samurais and advises that the fearful Kajiwara and his soldiers are waiting for them in the border to arrest them. Yoshitsune disguises as a porter and at the barrier at the border, Benkei has to convince Kajiwara that they are six monks traveling to collect donation to build a large temple in Kyoto., 1h36
Directed by Akira KurosawaOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Comedy,
ActionThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Toshiro Mifune,
Tatsuya Nakadai,
Keiju Kobayashi,
Reiko Dan,
Yūzō Kayama,
Takashi ShimuraRating79%
Nine young samurai, including his nephew, believe that the lord chamberlain, Mutsuta, is corrupt after he tore up their petition against organised crime and said maybe he himself was behind the crimes. One of them tells the superintendent of this and he agrees to intervene. As the nine meet secretly at a shrine and discuss their problem, a ronin (Mifune) emerges from another room where he has been resting. The ronin has overheard their plans, and suggests that the superintendent is in fact the real corrupt official. While at first the samurai are insulted by his claims, they soon find themselves surrounded by the superintendent's men, proving that he was correct. The ronin hits a few of the attackers and bluffs their leader into leaving, taking only a small amount of money in reward to buy food because he is starving; however, after realizing that Mutsuta and his family must now be in danger, he decides to help the samurai bring down the corrupt officials., 1h37
Directed by Akira KurosawaOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Martial arts,
Action,
Martial artsThemes Sports films,
Martial arts filmsActors Denjirō Ōkōchi,
Susumu Fujita,
Ranko Hanai,
Takashi Shimura,
Yukiko Todoroki,
Ryūnosuke TsukigataRating66%
En 1882, le jeune Sanshiro Sugata veut apprendre l'art ancestral du ju-jitsu, mais il découvre le judo et en devient immédiatement un adepte. Cette nouvelle discipline attire rapidement la méfiance et la jalousie des écoles de jiu-jitsu. L'école de judo est défiée par des écoles de jiu-itsu de la ville. Sanshiro Sugata est désigné par son maître pour la représenter., 1h38
Directed by Akira KurosawaOrigin JaponGenres DramaThemes Films about alcoholism,
Medical-themed films,
Seafaring films,
Films about drugs,
Transport films,
Yakuza films,
Gangster filmsActors Takashi Shimura,
Toshiro Mifune,
Noriko Sengoku,
Yoshiko Kuga,
Michiyo Kogure,
Chieko NakakitaRating75%
It stars Takashi Shimura as an alcoholic doctor in postwar Japan who treats a young, small-time hood named Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune), after a gunfight with a rival syndicate. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster with tuberculosis, and convinces him to begin treatment (and quit boozing and womanizing). The two enjoy an uneasy friendship until the gangster's former boss, Okada, who is also the former abusive boyfriend of the doctor's female assistant, is released from prison and seeks to take his gang over once again. The sick young man then stops following the doctor's advice, slips back into old habits and going to night clubs with Okada. But Matsunaga realizes that Okada is not a true friend when Okada threatens to kill the doctor if he doesn't reveal the female assistants whereabouts, and then finds out that the big Yakuza crime boss is grooming Okada and merely using Matsunaga as a pawn to be given up to the rival gang. When the doctor leaves his house to go report on Okada to the police, despite the doctor's orders to remain in bed, Matsunaga slips out to confront Okada (who has also managed to steal Matsunaga's girlfriend Nanae) but Matsunaga is killed in the ensuing knife fight. The film ends with a local shop-owner woman who had feelings for Matsunaga planning to take Matsunaga's ashes to be buried on her farm, far from the corrupt and dirty city, and the doctor happily learning that one of his younger patients has followed his advice and has been fully cured of tuberculosis.