The Silent Duel (1949)
Akira Kurosawa

During WWII, a young doctor named Kyoji Fujisaki contracts syphilis whilst performing an operation on an infected patient...   [More...]

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
Kenji Mizoguchi

Tokyo in the mid-1880s. Kikunosuke Onoue intends to follow in the footsteps of his adopted father, the great Kabuki actor Kikugoro Onoue...   [More...]

Stray Dog (1949)
Akira Kurosawa

In post-war Tokyo, a trainee cop Murakami becomes obsessed with recovering his Colt pistol when it is stolen by a pickpocket...   [More...]

That Night's Wife (1930)
Yasujirô Ozu

Shuji Hashizume, a struggling professional artist, is driven to steal money at gunpoint so that he can pay for medical treatment for his chronically sick infant daughter...   [More...]

There Was a Father (1942)
Yasujirô Ozu

Shuhei Horikawa is a schoolteacher and widower who is devotedly attached to his ten-year-old son, Ryohei. During a class outing, some of his pupils disobey his instructions and go off on a boating trip, in which one of them drowns...   [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...]

Tokyo Story (1953)
Yasujirô Ozu

Shukichi and Tomi Hirayama, a retired couple in their sixties, undertake a long journey from their home in the Japanese town of Onomichi to visit their grown-up children in Tokyo...   [More...]

Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Yasujirô Ozu

Shukichi Sugiyama is a senior bank employee who lives in Tokyo with his two grown-up daughters, Akiko and Takako. It has been many years since Shukichi's wife walked out on him and his daughters to pursue an affair with another man, and now history appears to be repeating itself...   [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...]

Ugetsu monogatari (1953)
Kenji Mizoguchi

In 16th Century Japan, Genjurô and Tôbei are peasant farmers who live on the shore of Lake Biwa with their wives, Miyagi and Ohama...   [More...]

Walk Cheerfully (1930)
Yasujirô Ozu

Koyama Kenji, nicknamed Kenji the Knife, is a small-time crook who makes a dishonest living with his friends Senko, Gunpei and Chieko...   [More...]

Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932)
Yasujirô Ozu

Tetsuo Horino, the spoiled son of an important company director, enjoys a carefree existence at college with his three close friends...   [More...]

Woman of Tokyo (1933)
Yasujirô Ozu

Ryoichi is a student who is financially dependent on his older sister Chikako. To pay for her brother's education, Chikako supplements her daytime income as a typist by, so she claims, working evenings for a university professor...   [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...]