Masayuki Yui

Ran

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an agi...

Kagemusha

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen,...

Dreams

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s...

Madadayo

In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce...

Casting Blossoms to the Sky

In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated d...

Sword of Desperation

A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Ren...

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and sh...

Tokyo Eyes

The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the...

Tora-san Goes North

When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his rel...

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hid...

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro...

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray D...

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Kagemus...

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru"...

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven S...

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Yojimbo...

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Drunken Angel'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Drunken...

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "High an...

To End All Wars

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captiv...

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad...

Siberian Express 2

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Dodes'k...

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Low...

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Throne...

Hokori to Gensou

A Class to Remember II

The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.

Karanukan

Through the Night

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroy...

Cicada

Cicada is the story of Jumpei-- a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but the...

Persimmon

Tamotsu is expecting a persimmon to dry and yet he cannot accept that it is time for a man on his deathbed to d...

Bicycle

A co-worker confronts Mamoru on his apparent apathy toward life, and this results in Mamoru leaving his job out...