Kyōko Kagawa

Toshirô Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa’s highly influential High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku).

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.

When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave traders. Under Kenji Mizoguchi’s dazzling direction, this classic Japanese story became one of cinema’s greatest masterpieces, a monumental, empathetic expression of human resilience in the face of evil.

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

Featuring Toshiro Mifune's last role for Akira Kurosawa, Red Beard chronicles the tumultuous relationship between an arrogant young doctor and a compassionate clinic director.

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s revelatory international breakthrough finds the recently deceased in a limbo realm where they must select a single cherished moment from their life for them to take into the next world. This bittersweet fantasia serves as a panoramic vision of the human experience and a profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time.

Yasujirô Ozu’s Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, postwar Tokyo.