The residents of an impoverished farming village in 16th-century Japan, anticipating an attack by bandits after harvest, hire seven rōnin to defend them. Upon arrival, the warriors set about to... more
Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo. One of Akira Kurosawa's classic screen achievements takes form in this compelling tale of the murder of a samurai and the rape of his wife in medieval Japan. The crimes... more
Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama. The patients at a poor medical clinic and a sharp but overbearing doctor teach an enthusiastic young intern hard lessons about the true meaning of practicing medicine. In... more
Toshiro Mifune. The tour-de-force trilogy by one of Japan's greatest actors is collected here, visually and sonically re-mastered. Follow swordsman Musashi Miyamoto from his days training to his... more
Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki. In this feudal Japan-set adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a vicious samurai warrior rises to power he cannot fully wield, and the curses of ancient... more
Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura. This great samurai epic tells the story of a princess under the protection of a brave and resourceful general who is pursued by enemies of her clan. In Japanese with... more
A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout it's history, Kenji Mizoguchi had... more
In this classic film noir, set in postwar Japan, ToshirC4 Mifune plays Matsunaga, a tough small- time gangster who takes a bullet during a fight in the slums of Tokyo. He makes his way to the office... more