Toho films

1954 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa

2013 film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

is a 1961 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe. In the film, a rōnin arrives in a small town where competing crime lords fight for supremacy. The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard.

1985 film by Akira Kurosawa

1998 film directed by Roland Emmerich

1954 film directed by Ishirō Honda

is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

1957 film by Akira Kurosawa

2019 film directed by Rob Letterman

1958 film by Akira Kurosawa

is a 1980 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class petty thief who is taught to impersonate the dying daimyō Takeda Shingen to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. Kagemusha is the Japanese term for a political decoy, literally meaning "shadow warrior". The film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino.

1963 film by Akira Kurosawa

1948 film by Akira Kurosawa

1999 anime film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama

1965 film by Akira Kurosawa

2020 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed, co-written and edited by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune. It is a sequel to Kurosawa's 1961 Yojimbo.

1962 film directed by Ishirō Honda

1945 film by Akira Kurosawa

is a 1970 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, and Shinsuke Minami. It is based on Shūgorō Yamamoto's 1962 novel A City Without Seasons and is about a group of homeless and poverty-stricken people living on the outskirts of Tokyo.

1960 film by Akira Kurosawa

1946 film by Akira Kurosawa

Pulgasari is a 1986 monster film directed and produced by Shin Sang-ok during his North Korean abduction. A co-production between North Korea, Japan, and China, it is supposedly a remake of Bulgasari, a 1962 South Korean film that also depicts Bulgasari/Pulgasari, a creature from Korean folklore. The ensemble cast includes Chang Sŏnhŭi, Ham Kisŏp, Ri Chongguk, Ri Ingwŏn, and Yu Kyŏngae, with Kenpachiro Satsuma in the title role. Set during the Goryeo dynasty, Pulgasari follows a blacksmith's daughter who brings to life a metal-eating monster her late father created to defeat the monarchy.

2023 film directed by Takashi Yamazaki

2004 film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura

1943 film by Akira Kurosawa

1955 film by Akira Kurosawa

2023 film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda

2016 film by Hideaki Anno

1947 film by Akira Kurosawa

1957 film by Akira Kurosawa

1954 film by Hiroshi Inagaki

1955 Japanese film directed by Motoyoshi Oda

1965 film by Ishirō Honda

1964 Japanese film by Masaki Kobayashi

1964 film directed by Ishirō Honda

1944 film by Akira Kurosawa

1984 Japanese action/adventure film by Kōji Yakusho, Koji Hashimoto

2020 anime film directed by Gorō Miyazaki

1964 Japanese science fiction dramatic horror film by Ishirō Honda

1974 film by Jun Fukuda

1967 monster (kaiju) film

1945 film by Akira Kurosawa

2010 film by Takashi Miike

1989 Japanese science fiction action film by Kazuki Ómori

1991 Japanese Sci-Fi/Adventure film by Kazuki Ōmori

1967 film by Jun Fukuda

2019 anime film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama

1971 film by Yoshimitsu Banno

1992 film by Takao Okawara

2010 film by Tran Anh Hung

1972 film by Jun Fukuda

1966 film by Jun Fukuda

1968 Japanese Horror/Sci-Fi film directed by Ishirō Honda

1969 Japanese sci-fi/action film by Ishirō Honda

1993 film by Takao Okawara

2015 Japanese film directed by Shinji Higuchi

1999 Japanese sci-fi/action film by Takao Okawara

2001 film by Shūsuke Kaneko

2003 film by Masaaki Tezuka