Tatsuya Nakadai

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.

The first feature of director Masaki Kobayashi's classic trilogy of war films.

The second feature of director Masaki Kobayashi's classic trilogy of war films.

The final feature of director Masaki Kobayashi's classic trilogy of war films.

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.

Akira Kurosawa’s epic re-telling of Shakespearean tragedy King Lear.

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.