Takashi Shimura

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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