1950s samurai films

1954 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa

is a 1950 Japanese period drama (jidaigeki) film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura, it follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest. The plot and characters are based upon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove", with the title and framing story taken from Akutagawa's "Rashōmon". Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the assault of the wife, an

1957 film by Akira Kurosawa

1958 film by Akira Kurosawa

1953 film by Teinosuke Kinugasa

Ugetsu (雨月物語, Ugetsu Monogatari, lit. "Rain-moon tales") is a 1953 Japanese period fantasy film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō. It is based on the stories "The House in the Thicket" and "The Lust of the White Serpent" from Ueda Akinari's 1776 book Ugetsu Monogatari, combining elements of the jidaigeki (period drama) genre with a ghost story.

1954 film by Hiroshi Inagaki

1955 film by Hiroshi Inagaki, Jun Fukuda

1956 film by Hiroshi Inagaki

1955 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

1952 Japanese film by Hiroshi Inagaki

1959 film by Hiroshi Inagaki

1958 film by Kunio Watanabe

1957 film by Yuzo Kawashima

1955 film by Tomu Uchida

1957 film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki

1952 film by Kazuo Mori