Daisuke Katō

After his master is slain in a drunken dispute, spear-bearer Gonpachi discovers the weight of human emotion as he sets out on a path of revenge.

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.

Mikio Naruse’s best-known film is a masterful study of Ginza hostess struggling under constant pressures to compromise her honour.

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