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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
Yojimbo
(用心棒)
A ronin comes to a town divided between two gangs and decides to play them off each other to his advantage.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1961
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Seizaburō Kawazu
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
High and Low
(天国と地獄)
A wealthy executive becomes the victim of an extortion plot after his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1963
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura, Kenjirō Ishiyama
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Red Beard
(赤ひげ)
A look into the tumultuous relationship between an arrogant young doctor and a compassionate clinic director.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1965
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan, Miyuki Kuwano, Kyōko Kagawa
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel
Samurai Rebellion
(上意討ち 拝領妻始末)
Isaburo Sasahara is an aging swordsman living a quiet life until his clan lord orders that his son marry the lord's mistress.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1967
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Gō Katō, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Etsuko Ichihara, Isao Yamagata
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, FlixFling, Tubi TV
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
Epic Chushingura
(大忠臣蔵)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1971
- Creator
- Cast Tetsuya Watari, Toshirō Mifune, Kikugorô Onoe, Ichirô Arishima, Chūsha Ichikawa, Yōko Tsukasa
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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
The Life of Oharu
(西鶴一代女)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1952
- Director Kenji Mizoguchi
- Cast Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirō Sugai, Toshirō Mifune, Toshiaki Konoe, Kiyoko Tsuji
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Plex, Plex Channel
Shogun
(Shōgun)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States, Japan • 1980
- Creator James Clavell
- Cast Richard Chamberlain, John Rhys-Davies, Orson Welles, Alan Badel, Vladek Sheybal, Toshirō Mifune
- Genre Action & Adventure, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel
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
The Bad Sleep Well
(悪い奴ほどよく眠る)
A young executive hunts down his father's killer in this chilling corporate take on "Hamlet."
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1960
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kamatari Fujiwara, Takeshi Katō, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
- Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Sword of Doom
(大菩薩峠)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1966
- Director Kihachi Okamoto
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama, Michiyo Aratama, Yōko Naitō, Toshirō Mifune, Tadao Nakamaru
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Burning Mountain River
(山河燃ゆ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1984
- Creator Toyoko Yamasaki
- Cast Hakuō Matsumoto, Toshirō Mifune, Kenji Sawada, Kiyoshi Kodama, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yumi Takigawa
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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
Falcons of Edo
(江戸の鷹 御用部屋犯科帖)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1978
- Creator
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Ken Tanaka, Kakutaro Ichiyanagi, Teppei Kazami
- Genre Action & Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Rainy Night Duel
(Kuro-obi sangokushi)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1956
- Director Senkichi Taniguchi
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Shin Saburi, Akio Kobori, Kyōko Kagawa, Mariko Okada, Asami Kuji
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Japan's Longest Day
(日本のいちばん長い日)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1967
- Director Kihachi Okamoto
- Cast Seiji Miyaguchi, Rokkō Toura, Chishū Ryū, Sō Yamamura, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshio Kosugi
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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
The Rickshaw Man
(無法松の一生)
A poor but optimistic rickshaw driver becomes a surrogate father to the young son of a widow.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1958
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshiro Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Chōko Iida, Chishū Ryū, Haruo Tanaka
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion 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.
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
(宮本武蔵完結編 決闘巌流島)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1956
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Kurôemon Onoe, Michiko Saga
- Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, IndieFlix, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
The Important Man
(Ánimas Trujano)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mexico • 1961
- Director Ismael Rodríguez
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Columba Domínguez, Flor Silvestre, Pepe Romay, Titina Romay, Amado Zumaya
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Youth and His Amulet
(ゲンと不動明王)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1961
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Toru Koyanagi, Hisako Sakabe, Chishū Ryū, Nobuko Otowa
- Genre Comedy, Fantasy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
(宮本武蔵)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1954
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Mariko Okada, Kurôemon Onoe, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mitsuko Mito
- Genre Drama, Action, Adventure
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
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
Samurai Assassin
(侍)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1965
- Director Kihachi Okamoto
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Yūnosuke Itō, Michiyo Aratama, Eijirō Tōno, Tatsuyoshi Ehara
- Genre Drama, Action, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Fort Graveyard
(血と砂)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1965
- Director Kihachi Okamoto
- Cast Toshiro Mifune, Makoto Satō, Reiko Dan, Yūnosuke Itō, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre Drama, War
- 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.
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
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
(続宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決闘)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1955
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Michiyo Kogure, Akihiko Hirata
- Genre Drama, Action, Adventure
- Available on Criterion Channel, IndieFlix, Max Amazon 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
The Lower Depths
(どん底)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1957
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyōko Kagawa, Ganjirô Nakamura I, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
- Genre Drama
- 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
The Fall of Ako Castle
(赤穂城断絶)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1978
- Director Kinji Fukasaku
- Cast Shin'ichi Chiba, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Masaomi Kondo, Toshirō Mifune, Kyōko Enami, Tsunehiko Watase
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Shout! Factory TV, Hoopla, 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
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.
The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel
(海燕ジョーの奇跡)
He avenges himself and escapes far south to the Philippines. He lives only for today. That's his youth.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1984
- Director Toshiya Fujita
- Cast Saburo Tokito, Miwako Fujitani, Kentarô Shimizu, Midori Satsuki, Yoshio Harada, Toshirō Mifune
- Genre Action, Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Tokyo Sweetheart
(東京の恋人)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1952
- Director Yasuki Chiba
- Cast Setsuko Hara, Toshirō Mifune, Yōko Sugi, Hisaya Morishige, Murasaki Fujima, Hiroshi Koizumi
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Incident at Blood Pass
(待ち伏せ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1970
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Yûjirô Ishihara, Ruriko Asaoka, Shintarō Katsu, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Chūsha Ichikawa
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Samurai Banners
(風林火山)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1969
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Yoshiko Sakuma, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Yûjirô Ishihara, Katsuo Nakamura, Umenosuke Nakamura
- Genre Action, War, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
(座頭市と用心棒)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1970
- Director Kihachi Okamoto
- Cast Shintarō Katsu, Toshirō Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa, Masakane Yonekura, Shin Kishida
- Genre Adventure, Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
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.
Tora-san Goes North
(男はつらいよ 知床慕情)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1987
- Director Yoji Yamada
- Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi, Toshirō Mifune, Chieko Baisho, Keiko Takeshita, Masami Shimojô, Chieko Misaki
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Death of a Tea Master
(千利休 本覺坊遺文)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1989
- Director Kei Kumai
- Cast Eiji Okuda, Toshiro Mifune, Gō Katō, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Shinsuke Ashida, Eijirō Tōno
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
(新選組)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1969
- Director Tadashi Sawashima
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Kinya Kitaoji, Yōko Tsukasa, Yuriko Hoshi, Kan'emon Nakamura
- Genre Action, Drama, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Red Lion
(赤毛)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1969
- Director Kihachi Okamoto
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Shima Iwashita, Etsushi Takahashi, Minori Terada, Nobuko Otowa, Yūko Mochizuki
- Genre Action, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Red Sun
(Soleil Rouge)
The greatest fighting machine the West has ever known.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy, Spain • 1971
- Director Terence Young
- Cast Charles Bronson, Toshirō Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress, Capucine, Hiroshi Tanaka
- Genre Western
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel
Admiral Yamamoto
(連合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1968
- Director Seiji Maruyama
- Cast Toshiro Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, Toshio Kurosawa, Makoto Satō
- Genre War, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Wedding Ring
(婚約指輪)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1950
- Director Keisuke Kinoshita
- Cast Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshirō Mifune, Jūkichi Uno, Kenji Susukida, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
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