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Seven Samurai
(七人の侍)
Seven samurai answer a village's request for protection after they lose their masters and fall on hard times.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1954
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Katô
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Rashomon
(羅生門)
A singular crime from four different perspectives.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1950
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Takashi Shimura, Masayuki Mori, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijirô Ueda
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Ikiru
(生きる)
Mr. Watanabe tries to find a meaningful human connection after he is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1952
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari, Miki Odagiri, Shinichi Himori
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
The Hidden Fortress
(隠し砦の三悪人)
Two peasants agree to escort a couple across enemy lines in exchange for gold, but the couple is harboring a secret.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1958
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Misa Uehara, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura
- Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Kagemusha
(影武者)
A petty thief must impersonate a powerful warlord in order to lead his troops to battle.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, United States • 1980
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Jinpachi Nezu, Takashi Shimura, Kenichi Hagiwara
- Genre Action, Drama, History, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Godzilla
(ゴジラ)
A 164-foot-tall monster near Odo Island in Japan goes on a rampage that threatens the entire world.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1954
- Director Ishirō Honda
- Cast Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Fuyuki Murakami, Sachio Sakai
- Genre Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Crackle, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Channel
Throne of Blood
(蜘蛛巣城)
Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan ranks among his most acclaimed films.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1957
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Kubo, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Hiroshi Tachikawa
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Sanjuro
(椿三十郎)
Akira Kurosawa's Powerful and Newest Japanese Masterpiece
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1962
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama, Reiko Dan, Takashi Shimura
- Genre Drama, Action, Comedy
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Stray Dog
(野良犬)
During a sweltering summer, a rookie detective searches Tokyo’s streets for his stolen Colt pistol.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1949
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi, Noriko Sengoku, Noriko Honma
- Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on fuboTV, Criterion Channel, Crackle, Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel
Drunken Angel
(酔いどれ天使)
A doctor and a gangster make the most unlikely of friendships.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1948
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita, Noriko Sengoku
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Plex, Plex Channel
47 Ronin
(忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1962
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Hakuō Matsumoto, Yûzô Kayama, Akira Takarada
- Genre History, Drama, Action
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Quiet Duel
(静かなる決闘)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1949
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Miki Sanjo, Takashi Shimura, Kenjiro Uemura, Isamu Yamaguchi, Noriko Sengoku
- Genre Drama
- Available on Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel
Untamed Woman
(あらくれ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1957
- Director Mikio Naruse
- Cast Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Daisuke Katō, Masayuki Mori, Mitsuko Miura, Takashi Shimura
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Loyal 47 Ronin
(忠臣蔵)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1958
- Director Kunio Watanabe
- Cast Kazuo Hasegawa, Yataro Kurokawa, Michiyo Kogure, Shintarō Katsu, Eitarō Ozawa, Takashi Shimura
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Sanshiro Sugata
(姿三四郎)
Judo Saga
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1965
- Director Seiichirô Uchikawa
- Cast Yûzô Kayama, Toshirō Mifune, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Eiji Okada, Takashi Shimura, Kenji Kodama
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Last Days of Edo
(江戸最後の日)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1941
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Tsumasaburō Bandō, Ryōsuke Kagawa, Takashi Shimura, Kensaku Hara, Jotaro Togami, Kichijirô Ueda
- Genre History, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
I Live in Fear
(生きものの記録)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1955
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Masao Shimizu, Eiko Miyoshi, Kyoko Aoyama
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Zatoichi and the Fugitives
(座頭市果し状)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1968
- Director Kimiyoshi Yasuda
- Cast Shintarō Katsu, Yumiko Nogawa, Kayo Mikimoto, Kyōsuke Machida, Takashi Shimura, Akifumi Inoue
- Genre Adventure, Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Saga of the Vagabonds
(戦国群盗傳)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1959
- Director Toshio Sugie
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Yōko Tsukasa, Misa Uehara, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki
- Genre Drama, Action, Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Idiot
(白痴)
A love triangle has tragic consequences.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1951
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga, Takashi Shimura, Chieko Higashiyama
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
Scandal
(醜聞)
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous story about a painter and a famous singer.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1950
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku, Eitarō Ozawa, Takashi Shimura
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel
Snow Trail
(銀嶺の果て)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1947
- Director Senkichi Taniguchi
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Setsuko Wakayama, Akitake Kôno, Yoshio Kosugi, Kokuten Kōdō
- Genre Drama, Crime
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Eleventh Hour
(どたんば)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1957
- Director Tomu Uchida
- Cast Takashi Shimura, Shinjirô Ehara, Kokuten Kōdō, Eiji Okada, Eijirō Tōno, Chōko Iida
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
No Time for Tears
(Otoko arite)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1955
- Director Seiji Maruyama
- Cast Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Mariko Okada, Yû Fujiki, Shizue Natsukawa, Tateo Kawasaki
- Genre Romance, Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Chushingura
(忠臣蔵 天の巻・地の巻)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1938
- Director Masahiro Makino, Tomiyasu Ikeda
- Cast Chiezō Kataoka, Tsumasaburō Bandō, Kanjūrō Arashi, Takashi Shimura, Kikutaro Onoe
- Genre History, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
(新座頭市物語・笠間の血祭り)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1973
- Director Kimiyoshi Yasuda
- Cast Shintarō Katsu, Yukiyo Toake, Takashi Shimura, Eiji Okada, Kei Satō, Yoshio Tsuchiya
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Spring Awakens
(春のめざめ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1947
- Director Mikio Naruse
- Cast Tatsuya Ishiguro, Haruko Sugimura, Yoshiko Kuga, Takashi Shimura, Yuriko Hanabusa
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
(血煙高田の馬場)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1937
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki, Masahiro Makino
- Cast Tsumasaburō Bandō, Takashi Shimura, Tokumaro Dan, Ryōsuke Kagawa, Chiyoko Ôkura, Momonosuke Ichikawa
- Genre Action, Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Sword for Hire
(戦国無頼)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1952
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Rentaro Mikuni, Toshirō Mifune, Danshirô Ichikawa, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Takashi Shimura, Shinobu Asaji
- Genre Drama, Action, Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Singing Lovebirds
(鴛鴦歌合戦)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1939
- Director Masahiro Makino
- Cast Chiezō Kataoka, Ryōsuke Kagawa, Takashi Shimura, Mitsuru Toyama, Kajô Onoe, Hidemichi Ishikawa
- Genre Music, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron
(加藤隼戦闘隊)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1944
- Director Kajirō Yamamoto
- Cast Susumu Fujita, Minoru Takada, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Takashi Shimura, Katsuhiko Haida
- Genre War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
It's Tough Being a Man
(男はつらいよ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1969
- Director Yoji Yamada
- Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Sachiko Mitsumoto, Chishū Ryū, Takashi Shimura, Shin Morikawa
- Genre Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Whale God
(鯨神)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1962
- Director Tokuzō Tanaka
- Cast Kōjirō Hongō, Shintarō Katsu, Shiho Fujimura, Michiko Takano, Takashi Shimura, Kyōko Enami
- Genre Adventure, Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Plex, Plex Channel
The Revolt
(動乱)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1980
- Director Shirô Moritani
- Cast Ken Takakura, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Masakane Yonekura, Junko Sakurada, Takahiro Tamura, Takashi Shimura
- Genre War, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Restoration Fire
(維新の篝火)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1961
- Director Sadatsugu Matsuda
- Cast Chiezō Kataoka, Chikage Awashima, Takashi Shimura, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata, Kotaro Satomi
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Three Yakuza
(股旅 三人やくざ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1965
- Director Tadashi Sawashima
- Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Hiroki Matsukata, Hiroko Sakuramachi, Wakaba Irie
- Genre Action, Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Sanshiro Sugata
(姿三四郎)
Sanshiro, a stubborn young man, travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. But upon his arrival he discovers a new form of self-defence: Judo.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1943
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Denjirō Ōkōchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata, Takashi Shimura, Ranko Hanai
- Genre News
- Available on Criterion Channel, Plex, Plex Channel
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
(虎の尾を踏む男達)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1952
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Denjirō Ōkōchi, Susumu Fujita, Kenichi Enomoto, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Akitake Kôno
- Genre Drama, Comedy, History, Thriller
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Plex, Plex Channel
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
(三大怪獣 地球最大の決戦)
The Three-Headed Monster battles Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan for the world!
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1964
- Director Ishirō Honda
- Cast Yōsuke Natsuki, Yuriko Hoshi, Akiko Wakabayashi, Hisaya Itô, Hiroshi Koizumi, Takashi Shimura
- Genre Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Crackle, Shout! Factory TV, Freevee, Plex, Plex Channel
Attack Squadron
(太平洋の翼)
A dramatic story of the last days of the Imperial Japanese Air Force
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1963
- Director Shûe Matsubayashi
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Takashi Shimura, Yōsuke Natsuki, Makoto Satō, Susumu Fujita
- Genre Action, Drama, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Vendetta for a Samurai
(荒木又右衛門 決闘鍵屋の辻)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1952
- Director Kazuo Mori
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Yuriko Hamada, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Katayama, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Katō
- Genre Drama, Action, History
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Three Treasures
(日本誕生)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1959
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Setsuko Hara, Kinuyo Tanaka, Yōko Tsukasa, Kyōko Kagawa
- Genre Fantasy, Action, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
(日本暴力団 組長と刺客)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1969
- Director Jun'ya Satô
- Cast Koji Tsuruta, Fumio Watanabe, Takashi Shimura, Hitomi Nozoe, Sanae Kitabayashi, Asao Uchida
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Afraid to Die
(からっ風野郎)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1960
- Director Yasuzō Masumura
- Cast Yukio Mishima, Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki, Eiji Funakoshi, Takashi Shimura, Yoshie Mizutani
- Genre Drama, Action
- Available on Tubi TV
A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless
(現代やくざ 与太者の掟)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1969
- Director Yasuo Furuhata
- Cast Bunta Sugawara, Kyōsuke Machida, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Sumiko Fuji, Takashi Shimura, Shingo Yamashiro
- Genre Drama, Crime
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
(弥次喜多道中記)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1938
- Director Masahiro Makino
- Cast Chiezō Kataoka, Kyoji Sugi, Takashi Shimura, Shigeo Kusunoki, Dick Mine
- Genre Comedy, Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Seven from Edo
(大江戸七人衆)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1958
- Director Sadatsugu Matsuda
- Cast Chiyonosuke Azuma, Shinobu Chihara, Utaemon Ichikawa, Takashi Shimura, Hashizo Okawa
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Mysterians
(地球防衛軍)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1957
- Director Ishirō Honda
- Cast Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Momoko Kôchi, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Takashi Shimura
- Genre Science Fiction, Action, Drama, Thriller, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, FlixFling
The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
(唐獅子警察)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1974
- Director Sadao Nakajima
- Cast Akira Kobayashi, Noboru Andô, Tsunehiko Watase, Fumio Watanabe, Takashi Shimura, Yukie Kagawa
- Genre Crime
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Godzilla Raids Again
(ゴジラの逆襲)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1955
- Director Motoyoshi Oda
- Cast Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Masao Shimizu, Seijirô Onda
- Genre Science Fiction, Horror
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Crackle, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Freevee, Plex, Plex Channel
The Most Beautiful
(一番美しく)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1944
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Takashi Shimura, Shôji Kiyokawa, Ichirō Sugai, Takako Irie, Yôko Yaguchi, Sayuri Tanima
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Plex, Plex Channel
Godzilla
The greatest apocalypse in cinema history
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, United States, Italy • 1977
- Director Ishirō Honda, Terry O. Morse, Luigi Cozzi
- Cast Raymond Burr, Akihiko Hirata, Momoko Kôchi, Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada
- Genre Science Fiction, Horror
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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