A disaffected civil servant in late middle-age (Takashi Shimura) learns that he has terminal cancer and a few months left to live. After t...

Kameda (Masayuki Mori) is a naive man who suffers from epilepsy. He returns home to Hokkaido after almost being shot by the firing squad i...

'I just don't understand,' mutters a woodcutter (Takashi Shimizu), and he shelters under the half-ruined eaves of the Rashomon...

A painter named Ichiro Aoe (Toshiro Mifune) meets a pop singer named Miyako Saigo (Yoshiko Yamaguchi) in the mountains. She has missed her...

During a crippling Tokyo heatwave, a homicide detective (Toshiro Mifune) has his gun stolen right out of his holster while taking the tram...

Dr Kyoji Fujisaki (Toshiro Mifune) is an army doctor during the Pacific War. When operating on an injured soldier, he accidentally cuts hi...

Sanada (Takashi Shimura) is an alcoholic doctor working in a post-war Tokyo suburb. One night a local hoodlum named Matsunaga (Toshiro Mif...

Yuzo (Isao Numasaki) and Masako (Chieko Nakakita) meet in Tokyo one Sunday morning for a date. They have only 35 yen between them. Over th...

Akira Kurosawa's fifth film, No Regrets for Our Youth , was his first to be made following the end of the Pacific War. With Japan'...

Let's have a look at Akira Kurosawa's fourth feature film, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail,  which is to be honest more ...

Movie goers concerned that Hollywood produces too many needless, money-hungry sequels should feel reassured that it's not just a conte...

A few weeks ago I watched and reviewed Sanshiro Sugata , the debut film from legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. Watching it was p...

In the mid-1950s Japanese film finally started to get international recognition, largely through the films of Akira Kurosawa. His films st...