An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Yasujirô Ozu

Shuhei Hirayama is a comfortably off widower in his late fifties who lives in the suburbs of Tokyo with his grown up son Kazuo and daughter Michiko...   [More...]

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Akira Kurosawa

In modern day Japan, Iwabuchi is the Vice President of one of the country's most important construction companies. Not long ago, the company was implicated in a corruption scandal, although the matter was hushed up after one of its executives, Furuya, killed himself by jumping from a seventh floor window at the corporate headquarters...   [More...]

High and Low (1963)
Akira Kurosawa

Kingo Gondo is a wealthy executive for a leading Japanese shoe manufacturing company. One evening, he hosts a meeting with several other executives at his luxurious house, which is perched high on a hill overlooking the city of Yokohama...   [More...]

Late Autumn (1960)
Yasujirô Ozu

Mamiya, Taguchi and Hirayama, three prosperous middle-aged men, meet up to attend the seventh memorial service of their mutual college friend Miwa...   [More...]

Red Beard (1965)
Akira Kurosawa

In mid-19th century Japan, Yasumoto, a young doctor fresh out of medical school, sees a bright future for himself and has high hopes of becoming the personal physician of the Shogunate...   [More...]

Sanjuro (1962)
Akira Kurosawa

Japan, sometime in the 1840s. Nine young samurai suspect that the lord chamberlain of their clan, Mutsuta, is complicit in the wave of organised crime that is threatening their community...   [More...]

Yojimbo (1961)
Akira Kurosawa

Japan, 1860. With the country in a state of terminal decline following the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, a Ronin Samurai who has fallen on hard times arrives at a small provincial town that has degenerated into gang warfare...   [More...]