Minoru Chiaki

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

This time around, Godzilla is reawakened by an A-Bomb again but decides to wreak havoc on Osaka.

This time around, Godzilla is reawakened by an A-Bomb again but decides to wreak havoc on Osaka.

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

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

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.

Transposing the action to sixteenth century Japan, Kurosawa's re-telling of Shakespeare's Macbeth remains immensely successful. A truly remarkable film, Throne of Blood manages to combine beauty and terror to produce a mood of truly haunting power. Starring the irrepressible Toshiro Mifune as the doomed warlord Washizu and a wonderfully creepy turn by Isuzu Yamada as the Lady Macbeth inspired Asaji, the film shows Kurosawa's familiar mastery of atmosphere and action combined with the savagery of war.

A dying man devotes his last months to building a children's playground.