Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she’s grown up in the Kosugi…
Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao’s grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo,…
Director Masaki Kobayashi uses the sharpest-edged knife in this cutting indictment of selfishness, greed, and…
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic…
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that…
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of…
In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island…
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa…
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed…