Shinobu Hashimoto

Akira Kurosawa's landmark and hugely influential crime drama, following a crime and its aftermath recalled from differing points of view.

Akira Kurosawa transposes the plot of Shakespeare's Macbeth from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan. Stars Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada.

Classic Japanese adventure from legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, made four years after the masterful Seven Samurai. The film was a huge influence on George Lucas and the creation of Star Wars.

Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic about a poor farming community who hire seven unemployed samurai to help defend their village against an incoming horde of ruthless bandits. Ranked number one in Empire Magazine’s The 100 Best Films of World Cinema in 2010, and the highest rated foreign language film in IMDb’s Top 250 Films.

A middle-aged bureaucrat with terminal cancer determines to do something useful with the remainder of his life in this Kurosawa classic.