The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Akira Kurosawa

In war-torn feudal Japan, two peasants, Tahei and Matashichi, attempt to escape across the border from their own country, but are captured by enemy soldiers and forced into slavery...   [More...]

Ran (1985)
Akira Kurosawa

In 16th century Japan, the aging warlord Hidetora Ichimonji gathers together his family and announces his intention to pass on his power to his three sons, who will each have a share of his kingdom...   [More...]

Sanjuro (1962)
Akira Kurosawa

Japan, sometime in the 1840s. Nine young samurai suspect that the lord chamberlain of their clan, Mutsuta, is complicit in the wave of organised crime that is threatening their community...   [More...]

Seven Samurai (1954)
Akira Kurosawa

Japan in the sixteenth century is riven by civil wars which allow gangs of maraudiung bandits to tyrannise village communities across the country...   [More...]

Throne of Blood (1957)
Akira Kurosawa

Sent by the Lord Tzuzuki, two samurai warriors, Washizu and Miki, succeed in crushing a local uprising led by a treacherous warlord...   [More...]

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Richard Fleischer

1941. In an attempt to weaken Japan after its seizure of Indochina, the United States imposes an embargo that will deprive the country of essential raw materials...   [More...]

Yojimbo (1961)
Akira Kurosawa

Japan, 1860. With the country in a state of terminal decline following the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, a Ronin Samurai who has fallen on hard times arrives at a small provincial town that has degenerated into gang warfare...   [More...]