
8
Sanjuro
IMDb: 8 1962 96 min
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In ...

8
The Bad Sleep Well
IMDb: 8 1960 150 min
In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and ...

0
The Hidden Fortress
1958 139 min 39 views
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man ...

7.2
The Lower Depths
IMDb: 7.2 1957 125 min
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle ...

8.6
Seven Samurai
IMDb: 8.6 1954 207 min 7 views
A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai ...

8.3
Ikiru
IMDb: 8.3 1952 143 min 14 views
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to ...