Hiroshi Tachikawa

A salaryman’s drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life’s story.

Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they ...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In ...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the ...

Returning to their lord’s castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part ...