Takashi Shimura

Japanese villagers hire a team of traveling samurai to defend them against a bandit attack.

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

In medieval Japan, four people offer conflicting accounts of a rape and murder.

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

Sanshiro, a strong but stubborn youth, abandons his jujutsu training to master the art of judo from the master Shogoro Yano by combining the competitive elements of the art with the quiet, meditative aspects of the fighting style.

In medieval Japan, a samurai fights to save a feudal lord's daughter from bandits.

The follow-up to hugely successful Yojimbo, sees the return of star Toshiro Mifune as the samurai who cleans up corruption in a small town.

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.

In this loose adaptation of Hamlet, Japanese police and a tycoon's son-in-law discover deadly corporate corruption.