Isuzu Yamada

Two very different geisha sisters struggling to survive in pre-World War II Kyoto clash when a businessman hit by hard times enters their lives.

Spurred by his wife and a witch's prediction, a samurai murders his lord to steal the throne.

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.

Yojimbo is the story of Sanjuro, a samurai in nineteenth-century Japan who drifts into a rural town and learns from the innkeeper that the town is divided between two gangs.

A woman leaves her abusive husband and moves in with her father, who is also sheltering another daughter, pregnant from a dead-end affair.