Tatsuya Nakadai

Toshiro Mifune leads Akira Kurosawa's companion piece and sequel to Yojimbo, following a jaded samurai who helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

Kurosawa transforms an Ed McBain thriller into an epic moral tale in which a man is faced with a terrible dilemma when his son is kidnapped.

This Cannes Palme d'Or-winning Kurosawa epic unfolds during a period of clan warfare and questions the very nature of power.

Akira Kurosawa’s epic re-telling of Shakespearean tragedy King Lear.

Toshiro Mifune stars in this Kurosawa-directed classic set in late-Edo era Japan. Mifune's performance as a wandering ronin who commits to ridding a terror-stricken town of corruption garnered him two Best Actor awards at the 1961 Venice Film Festival.