Kamatari Fujiwara

Three years before 1953's Tokyo Story, filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu constructed this elaborate drama about a complex love triangle.

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.

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.

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