Takashi Shimura

Akira Kurosawa's classic 1949 film noir stars frequent collaborator Toshiro Mifune as a detective on a mission to recover his stolen gun.

A doctor and a mobster form an unlikely friendship in this 1948 drama from master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

In this crime mystery, Kōichi Nishi (Toshirō Mifune, Yojimbo) ascends the ranks of a corrupt company, plotting to avenge his father's death.

Toshiro Mifune leads Akira Kurosawa's companion piece and sequel to Yojimbo, following a jaded samurai who helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

In this daikaiju classic, an expedition discovers a lost tribe, along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman, Mothra sets out to rescue them.

Akira Kurosawa's landmark and hugely influential crime drama, following a crime and its aftermath recalled from differing points of view.

Kurosawa transforms an Ed McBain thriller into an epic moral tale in which a man is faced with a terrible dilemma when his son is kidnapped.

This Cannes Palme d'Or-winning Kurosawa epic unfolds during a period of clan warfare and questions the very nature of power.

A middle-aged bureaucrat with terminal cancer determines to do something useful with the remainder of his life in this Kurosawa classic.

Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic about a poor farming community who hire seven unemployed samurai to help defend their village against an incoming horde of ruthless bandits. Ranked number one in Empire Magazine’s The 100 Best Films of World Cinema in 2010, and the highest rated foreign language film in IMDb’s Top 250 Films.

Classic Japanese adventure from legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, made four years after the masterful Seven Samurai. The film was a huge influence on George Lucas and the creation of Star Wars.

Akira Kurosawa transposes the plot of Shakespeare's Macbeth from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan. Stars Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada.

Toshiro Mifune stars in this Kurosawa-directed classic set in late-Edo era Japan. Mifune's performance as a wandering ronin who commits to ridding a terror-stricken town of corruption garnered him two Best Actor awards at the 1961 Venice Film Festival.