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Drunken Angel - Widescreen
(2007)
Rated: NR
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Takashi Shimura,
Toshiro Mifune
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In this powerful early noir from the great Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune bursts onto the screen as a volatile, tuberculosis-infected criminal who strikes up an unlikely, unhealthy relationship with Takashi...
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1941
(1979)
Rated: PG
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Dan Aykroyd,
Ned Beatty,
John Belushi,
John Candy,
Lorraine Gary
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Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when fear of a Japanese invasion threw the city into a state of Pandemonium. Screwball characters run wild on Hollywood Boulevard as manic servicemen,...
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The Sword Of Doom
(1965)
Rated: UR
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Toshiro Mifune
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Tatsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune star in the story of a wandering samurai who exists in a maelstrom of violence. A gifted swordsman-plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule...
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Yojimbo
(1961)
Rated: UR
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Toshiro Mifune,
Eijiro Tono,
Isuzu Yamada
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The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo (The Bodyguard). In order to rid a village of corruption, masterless samurai Sanjuro turns...
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The Bad Sleep Well
(1960)
Rated: NR
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Toshiro Mifune,
Masayuki Mori
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In Kurosawa's HAMLET-like story of corporate scandal in post-war Japan, a young man attempts to use his position at the heart of a corrupt company to expose the men responsible for his father's death.
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The Hidden Fortress
(1958)
Rated: UR
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Toshiro Mifune,
Misa Uehara,
Minoru Chiaki,
Kamatari Fujiwara
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A General and a princess must dodge enemy clans while smuggling the royal treasure out of hostile territory with two bumbling, conniving peasants at their sides; it's a spirited adventure that only Akira...
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Throne Of Blood (The Criterion Collection)
(1957)
Rated: UR
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Isuzu Yamada,
Minoru Chiaki,
Takashi Shimura,
Toshiro Mifune
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One of the most celebrated screen adaptations of Shakespeare into film, Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood re-imagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa's longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and...
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Seven Samurai
(1954)
Rated: UR
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Toshiro Mifune,
Seiji Miyaguchi,
Takashi Shimura,
Yoshio Inaba
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A desperate village hires seven samurai to protect it from marauders in the crown jewel of Japanese cinema. No other film so seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and...
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Rashomon
(1950)
Rated: UR
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Toshiro Mifune,
Masayuki Mori,
Takashi Shimura,
Machiko Kyo,
Minoru Chiaki
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Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to challenge perceptions of reality and justice. Through an ingenious use of camera...
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