List of the best Akira Kurosawa movies: Ran(1985), Yojimbo(1961), Rashomon(1950), Sanjuro(1962), The Lower Depths(1957), Akira Kurosawa's Dreams(1990), The Bad Sleep Well(1960), Dodes 'Ka-Den(1970), Seven Samurai(1954), The Hidden Fortress(1958), Stray Dog(1949), Rhapsody in August(1991) ... ...
8.2/10
Drama, History
Japan|France
1985
160 Minutes
Director
Tatsuya Nakadai Mieko Harada Akira Terao Jinpachi Nezu Daisuke Ryu Yoshiko Miyazaki Kazuo Kato Masayuki Yui Hitoshi Ueki Hisashi Igawa Takeshi Nomura
lord son brother messenger fool dark bleak castle japan greed revenge betrayal death conspiracy injustice fall pursuit rivalry 12th century
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
8.2/10
Comedy, Adventure
Japan
1961
110 Minutes
Director
Toshirô Mifune Tatsuya Nakadai Eijiro Tono Takashi Shimura Seizaburô Kawazu Isuzu Yamada Hiroshi Tachikawa Kyû Sazanka Daisuke Kato Yosuke Natsuki Kamatari Fujiwara
samurai mayor shopkeeper henchmen villager confident gripping touching small town japan gambling crime honor rivalry adventure 16th century
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
8.2/10
Drama
Japan
1950
88 Minutes
Director
Toshirô Mifune Machiko Ky? Masayuki Mori Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki Kichijiro Ueda Daisuke Kato Noriko Honma
husband assassin criminal samurai priest ghost crafty intricate witty suspenseful japan forest suicide rape assassination justice crime mystery pursuit 12th century
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
8.1/10
Adventure, Action
Japan
1962
96 Minutes
Director
Toshirô Mifune Tatsuya Nakadai Takashi Shimura Yûzô Kayama Reiko Dan Masao Shimizu Yunosuke Ito Takako Irie Kamatari Fujiwara Keiju Kobayashi
samurai uncle warrior anti-hero gang member intricate suspenseful small town barn japan corruption revenge rescue disillusionment loyalty tradition fall rise 19th century
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
7.4/10
Drama
Japan
1957
125 Minutes
Director
Toshirô Mifune Isuzu Yamada Kyoko Kagawa Ganjirô Nakamura Minoru Chiaki Kamatari Fujiwara Akemi Negishi Nijiko Kiyokawa Kôji Mitsui Eijiro Tono Haruo Tanaka
landlady thief sister husband actor gambler striking passionate boardinghouse japan infidelity jealousy love triangle sibling rivalry poverty decadence rivalry revenge 19th century
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Drama
1990
119 Minutes
Akira Kurosawa Akira Terao Mitsunori Isaki Martin Scorsese Mitsuko Baishô Mieko Harada Chishu Ryu Hisashi Igawa Toshihiko Nakano Yoshitaka Zushi Toshie Negishi
young boy art student vincent van gogh soldier young man elderly man profound creative moving japan mountain forest countryside tunnel field childhood environmentalism nature war art
Filmmaker Kurosawa follows the life of "I" from boy (Mitsunori Isaki) to man (Akira Terao) in eight episodes of themes like war, nature and nuclear horror.
Crime, Drama
1960
144 Minutes
Director
Toshirô Mifune Takeshi Kato Masayuki Mori Kyoko Kagawa Tatsuya Mihashi Takashi Shimura Kô Nishimura
daughter son father businessman vice president lawyer outlandish eerie japan wedding cemetery office revenge suicide corporate greed corruption cover-up rivalry wretched excess pursuit
Japanese police and a tycoon's (Masayuki Mori) son-in-law (Toshirô Mifune) discover deadly corporate corruption.
Drama
1970
140 Minutes
Director
Yoshitaka Zushi Kin Sugai Toshiyuki Tonomura Shinsuke Minami Yûko Kusunoki Junzaburô Ban Kiyoko Tange Michio Hino Keiji Furuyama Tappei Shimokawa Kunie Tanaka
disabled person mother father son artist young woman moving engaging japan slum dump shack poverty outsider's life aspirations family rape alcoholism adventure growing up
Action
1954
208 Minutes
Director
Toshirô Mifune Takashi Shimura Yoshio Inaba Seiji Miyaguchi Minoru Chiaki Daisuke Kato Isao Kimura Kunihori Kodo Kamatari Fujiwara Yoshio Tsuchiya
samurai villager bandit monk farmer tense intricate village japan honor kidnapping showdown violence father/daughter relationship hope rescue quest rivalry sacrifice 16th century
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves.
Comedy
1958
139 Minutes
Director
Toshirô Mifune Misa Uehara Minoru Chiaki Kamatari Fujiwara Susumu Fujita Takashi Shimura
general peasant princess wife young girl amusing rousing thrilling battlefield japan forest fort dangerous assignment expedition gold war adventure quest middle ages
Two medieval misfits help a beaten Japanese warlord (Toshirô Mifune) and his princess (Misa Uehara) escape with the royal gold.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
1949
122 Minutes
Director
Toshirô Mifune Takashi Shimura Keiko Awaji Eiko Miyoshi Noriko Sengoku Noriko Honma Reikichi Kawamura Eijiro Tono
police officer criminal stripper mentor brooding dark tokyo slum nightclub police station crime corruption poverty murder pursuit mystery 1940s
Two detectives (Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura) track one's stolen revolver into the underworld of late-1940s Tokyo.
Drama
1991
98 Minutes
Director
Richard Gere Sachiko Murase Tomoko Ohtakara Hisashi Igawa Narumi Kayashima Mitsunori Isaki Hidetaka Yoshioka Mie Suzuki
elderly woman brother nephew grandchild widow american emotional frenetic japan city mountain house nuclear attack world war ii siblings death horrors of war discovery quest 1990s
An American relative (Richard Gere) visits four teens and their grandmother (Sachiko Murase) near Nagasaki.
Drama
1957
108 Minutes
Director
Toshirô Mifune Isuzu Yamada Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki Akira Kubo Takamaru Sasaki Chieko Naniwa
samurai lord wife son rival gripping chilling japan castle forest ambition assassination revenge fall transformation 15th century
A Japanese version of "Macbeth" features a samurai (Toshirô Mifune), his scheming wife (Isuzu Yamada) and a flurry-of-arrows finale.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
1952
143 Minutes
Director
Takashi Shimura Miki Odagiri Kyôko Seki
bureaucrat co-worker writer mayor prostitute sad emotional dark office japan illness politics death alcoholism loneliness meaning of life transformation fall 1950s
A rigid clerk (Takashi Shimura) resolves to do something of lasting importance after learning that he is dying of cancer.
Adventure, Drama
1975
140 Minutes
Director
Maxim Munzuk Yuri Solomin V. Kremena Suymenkul Chokmorov Svetlana Danilchenko Igor Sykhra
hunter soldier explorer friend dark intense heartwarming forest siberia friendship retribution travel hope adventure discovery transformation 20th century
A Russian explorer develops a unique and lasting relationship with a frontiersman during an expedition in Siberia.
Drama
1955
105 Minutes
Director
Toshirô Mifune Eiko Miyoshi Haruko Tôgô Masao Shimizu Yutaka Sada Noriko Sengoku Minoru Chiaki Kyôko Aoyama Akemi Negishi Kichijiro Ueda Takashi Shimura
factory worker business owner doctor counselor old man wife bleak disheartening moving japan court house nuclear war fear family dysfunction insanity escape fall underdog 1950s
Believing that nuclear holocaust is imminent, an elderly industrialist (Toshirô Mifune) decides to move his family to Brazil.
Drama
1948
102 Minutes
Director
Toshirô Mifune Takashi Shimura Reizaburo Yamamoto Michiyo Kogure
doctor gangster criminal victim neighbor gritty tokyo doctor's office alcoholism disease injury teamwork quest 1940s
Akira Kurosawa's postwar allegory focusing on an alcoholic doctor's determination to cure a gangster of tuberculosis.
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