Rashomon / Rashômon / Rashou-mon (1950)
Crime | Drama
A tale of rape and murder in 12th-century Kyoto.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Godzilla / Gojira (1954)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
A monster is awakened by an undersea explosion and wreaks havoc on the citizens of Tokyo.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Fuyuki Murakami, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi
Director: Ishirô Honda
Ikiru / Living (1952)
Drama
A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Sanshiro Sugata / Sugata Sanshirô (1943)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life.
Starring: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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The Hidden Fortress / Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (1958)
Action | Adventure
Lured by gold, two greedy peasants escort a man and woman across enemy lines. However, they do not realize that their companions are actually a princess and her general.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Stray Dog / Nora inu (1949)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi, Noriko Sengoku
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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I Live in Fear / Ikimono no kiroku (1955)
Drama
An aging, industrialist Japanese man becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Eiko Miyoshi, Kyôko Aoyama
Director: Akira Kurosawa
The Silent Duel / Shizukanaru kettô (1949)
Drama
A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô, Kenjiro Uemura, Chieko Nakakita
Director: Akira Kurosawa
The Bad Sleep Well / Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (1960)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Drunken Angel / Yoidore tenshi (1948)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Seven Samurai / Shichinin no samurai (1954)
Action | Adventure | Drama
A Japanese farming village, constantly besieged and pillaged by an army of bandits, recruits seven independent samurai to defend it.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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