Director: Akira Kurosawa

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

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

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

Kurosawa's 1985 King Lear in feudal Japan. Three-hour battle epic with armies of 1,400 extras.

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.