Akira Kurosawa

Dersu Uzala 1975

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

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Stars: Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Mikhail Bychkov

8.2 IMDB Rating 60 Views
Ran
Ran 1985

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.

Category: Action, Drama, War

Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu

8.2 IMDB Rating 794 Views
Red Beard 1965

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

Category: Drama

Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki

8.3 IMDB Rating 529 Views
The Hidden Fortress 1958

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

Category: Action, Adventure, Drama

Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki

8.1 IMDB Rating 509 Views
Throne Of Blood 1957

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.

Category: Drama

Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada

8.1 IMDB Rating 465 Views
Rashomon 1950

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.

Category: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori

8.2 IMDB Rating 497 Views
Kagemusha 1980

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.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara

7.9 IMDB Rating 575 Views
Yojimbo 1961

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

Category: Action, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai

8.2 IMDB Rating 4,153 Views
The Bad Sleep Well 1960

In Kurosawa's HAMLET-like story of corporate scandal in post-war Japan, a young man attempts to use his position at the heart of a corrupt company to expose the men responsible for his father's death.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Toshirô Mifune,Masayuki Mori,Kyôko Kagawa,Tatsuya Mihashi

8.1 IMDB Rating 2,887 Views
Sanjuro 1962

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.

Category: Action, Crime, Drama

Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi

8.0 IMDB Rating 3,622 Views
Seven Samurai 1954

A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.

Category: Adventure, Drama

Stars: Toshirô Mifune,Takashi Shimura,Keiko Tsushima,Yukiko Shimazaki

8.7 IMDB Rating 5,052 Views