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.
A wonderfully poised ensemble work which presents the intricacies and contradictions of three generations who have lived through the end of an era and are looking towards the new.
A teenage brother and sister create an intense, private world in their untidy shared single room, until outsiders intrude, setting the scene for tragedy.
Otto Preminger’s classic noir charts the downfall of a philanderer who marries for money, only to turn murder suspect when his true sweetheart is found dead.