Actor: Toshiro Mifune

Kurosawa's 1962 Yojimbo sequel. Mifune returns as the ronin.

Kurosawa's 1958 medieval adventure. Mifune as general, two bumbling peasants.

Kihachi Okamoto's 1966 nihilist samurai film. Tatsuya Nakadai as soulless killer.

Kurosawa's 1961 samurai-noir. Mifune as the masterless ronin who plays two factions against each other.

Kurosawa's 1957 Macbeth set in feudal Japan. The arrow finale is among the most committed practical-effects sequences ever filmed.

Kurosawa's 1963 kidnapping procedural. Mifune as the shoe executive.

Kurosawa's 1954 samurai epic. Three hours twenty-seven minutes.

Kurosawa's 1950 film that gave English the word for unreliable narrative. Four versions of one crime, each true, each false.

Two substantial adaptations of the Battle of Midway. 1976 ensemble approach with Charlton Heston and Toshiro Mifune.