Cast: Yoshitaka Zushi

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yûzô Kayama · Yoshio Tsuchiya · Kyôko Kagawa

Synopsis In the Nineteenth Century, in Japan, the arrogant and proud just-graduated Dr. Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) is forced to work in the Koshikawa Clinic, a non-profit health facility ruled by...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Akira Terao · Jinpachi Nezu · Pîtâ

Synopsis A reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally among his three...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Martin Scorsese · Akira Terao · Mitsuko Baisho · Mieko Harada

Synopsis Akira Kurosawa's Dreams comprises eight dream sequences, featuring impressive special effects and beautiful scenery from Japan. Kurosawa's dream sequences are elusive, metaphoric and influenced by Japanese legends, reflecting in some...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Yoshitaka Zushi · Kin Sugai · Kazuo Katô · Junzaburo Ban

Synopsis Episodes from the lives of a group of Tokyo slum-dwellers: Rokkuchan, a retarded boy who brings meaning and routine to his life by driving an imaginary streetcar; children who support...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Hikari Ishida · Tomoko Nakajima · Toshinori Omi · Tomoka Shibayama

Synopsis Futari (Two of Us) is about two sisters, one of them the perfect child, the other clumsy and slow. One day, the perfect sister dies, and comes back as a...

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Chiemi Eri · Aiko Mimasu · Hiroshi Koizumi · Tadao Takashima