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Toshirō Mifune

Tatsuya Nakadai

Keiju Kobayashi

Yūzō Kayama

Reiko Dan

Takashi Shimura

Kamatari Fujiwara

Takako Irie

Masao Shimizu

Yūnosuke Itō

Sanjuro Collection

In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro 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

Sanjuro

Juan Pablo Gomez Sanchez

Mark Dalthorp

Letterboxd: Carson Bayle

Sanjuro (1962) Original Trailer [4K]

Tatsuya Nakadai on Shooting SANJURO

Tatsuya Nakadai on SANJURO

SANJURO Trailer (1962) - The Criterion Collection

Ryūzō Kikushima

Hideo Oguni

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Yōko Tsukasa

Isuzu Yamada

Daisuke Katō

Seizaburō Kawazu

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Yōsuke Natsuki

Eijirō Tōno

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Yojimbo

Mr.Blue

Gianni

Yojimbo (1961) Original Trailer [4K]

YOJIMBO Trailer (1961) - The Criterion Collection

Minoru Chiaki

Misa Uehara

Susumu Fujita

Ikio Sawamura

Kōji Mitsui

Takeo Oikawa

Yū Fujiki

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

The Hidden Fortress

Jake

Jonathan Costa

Lucas Bold

Hidden Fortress | 1958 Trailer - Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki

Steven Berkoff on The Hidden Fortress

Brian Trenchard-Smith on The Hidden Fortress

Shinobu Hashimoto

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Akira Kubo

Takamaru Sasaki

Gen Shimizu

Kokuten Kōdō

Kichijirô Ueda

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

Throne of Blood

Chuck

Bradley Lovelace

Angelos Loukatos

Throne of Blood (1957) Original Trailer [HD]

Shooting the Arrows in Throne of Blood

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Tsutomu Yamazaki

Kenichi Hagiwara

Jinpachi Nezu

Hideji Ōtaki

Daisuke Ryū

Masayuki Yui

Kaori Momoi

Mitsuko Baisho

Hideo Murota

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.

Kagemusha

Hampus

Joshua Prado

Breno Villa

Kagemusha (1980) Original Trailer [4K]

Masato Ide

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Akira Terao

Mieko Harada

Yoshiko Miyazaki

Mansai Nomura

Hisashi Igawa

Shinnosuke Ikehata

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

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Stevie Southworth

Ismam Uz Zaman

Ran (1985) Original Trailer [HD]

Official Trailer

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Akira Ishihama

Shima Iwashita

Tetsurō Tamba

Masao Mishima

Ichirō Nakatani

Kei Satō

Yoshio Inaba

Toru Takeuchi

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

Masaki Kobayashi

Harakiri

Zarq Khan

BruceB

Trailer

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Keiko Awaji

Eiko Miyoshi

Noriko Sengoku

Noriko Honma

Reikichi Kawamura

Chōko Iida

Yasushi Nagata

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

Stray Dog

Forest Haywood

Mitchell Moore

Stray Dog (1949) Original Trailer [4K]

1949 - Stray Dog Trailer

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Miyuki Kuwano

Kyōko Kagawa

Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Terumi Niki

Akemi Negishi

Yoshitaka Zushi

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

Red Beard

Sam Willwerth

Adrian

Clip

Red Beard / 赤ひげ (1965) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD]

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Tatsuya Mihashi

Isao Kimura

Kenjirō Ishiyama

Takeshi Katō

Jun Tazaki

Nobuo Nakamura

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

High and Low

Jacob Hall

High and Low (1963) Original Trailer [4K]

'High and Low' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times

Eijirô Hisaita

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Machiko Kyō

Masayuki Mori

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Rashomon

Alexandre

Isaac Banks

Boo Boo Kitty

BFI Re-Release Trailer

Rashômon (1950) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

Robert Altman on Rashomon

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Haruo Tanaka

Nobuo Kaneko

Bokuzen Hidari

Miki Odagiri

Shinichi Himori

Minosuke Yamada

Makoto Kobori

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Ikiru

Andrew

Mack

Kate

Ikiru (1952) Original Trailer [4K]

Ikiru - The Moment He Started Living

Anne Wiazemsky

Walter Green

François Lafarge

Jean-Claude Guilbert

Philippe Asselin

Pierre Klossowski

Nathalie Joyaut

Marie-Claire Fremont

Jean-Joël Barbier

The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

Robert Bresson

Au Hasard Balthazar

Aram

Radmehr Shirzady

José Gama Guimaraes Netoo

"Au hasard Balthazar" | "Наудачу, Бальтазар", 1966 (Rialto Pictures trailer, english subs)

Donald Richie on Au Hasard Balthazar

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Chishū Ryū

Chieko Higashiyama

Setsuko Hara

Haruko Sugimura

Sō Yamamura

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

Tokyo Story

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