Part gangster film, part melodrama and part social critique, Akira Kurosawa’s first critical success follows the troubled friendship between a disillusioned doctor and a young yakuza.
An industrialist faces an agonising choice when a ruthless kidnapper, aiming to snatch his young son, takes the wrong boy, but still demands the ransom.
Akira Kurosawa’s tale of a man diagnosed with stomach cancer is a contemplation of the nature of existence and the question of how we find meaning in our lives.
In Akira Kurosawa’s comedy of manners, a ronin runs rings around nine young, clean-cut samurai while cleaning up a spot of corruption in local government.