Watch Ikiru

Kurosawa's epic of villagers and hired swords (1954).

Rashomon. four witnesses, four irreconcilable accounts of the same killing.

Macbeth relocated to feudal Japan, ending in a storm of arrows.

King Lear as a sixteenth-century warlord epic, in Kurosawa's fiercest colour.

The first Kurosawa-Mifune film: a slum doctor and a tubercular gangster.

A young doctor learns humility in a nineteenth-century clinic for the poor.

A thief is made to impersonate a dead warlord to hold a clan together.

A masterless samurai plays two gangs against each other for money.