Yoshirō Muraki Movies
- 1954
Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai8.51954HD
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...
- 1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Tora! Tora! Tora!7.21970HD
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
- 1965
Red Beard
Red Beard8.0921965HD
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
- 1963
High and Low
High and Low8.31963HD
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by...
- 1949
Stray Dog
Stray Dog7.51949HD
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...
- 1961
Yojimbo
Yojimbo8.0961961HD
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...
- 1993
Madadayo
Madadayo7.31993HD
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...
- 1980
Kagemusha
Kagemusha7.81980HD
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...
- 1985
Ran
Ran8.11985HD
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...
- 1957
Throne of Blood
Throne of Blood7.91957HD
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the...
- 1962
Sanjuro
Sanjuro7.91962HD
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...
- 1990
Dreams
Dreams7.71990HD
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
- 2000
After the Rain
After the Rain7.12000HD
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst...
- 1960
The Bad Sleep Well
The Bad Sleep Well7.6731960HD
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...
- 1958
The Hidden Fortress
The Hidden Fortress7.91958HD
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who...
- 1957
The Lower Depths
The Lower Depths7.11957HD
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that...
- 1967
Samurai Rebellion
Samurai Rebellion8.21967HD
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to...
- 1955
I Live in Fear
I Live in Fear7.31955HD
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...
- 1991
Rhapsody in August
Rhapsody in August7.11991HD
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her...
- 2002
Letter from the Mountain
Letter from the Mountain8.22002HD
Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.