Last Days of Edo

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

Runtime

1h 56m

Director

Takeshi Kitano

Cast

Tadanobu Asano

A feudal epic presenting the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. The impostor becomes comfortable living his life among nobility, but his responsibilities to his station grow more demanding the longer he occupies it.

Runtime

3h

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Jap...

Runtime

2h 9m

Director

Yoji Yamada

Cast

Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroyin...

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast

Machiko Kyō, Mitsuko Mito, Kinuyo Tanaka

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 the trapped travelers.

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Takashi Koizumi

Cast

Akira Terao, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Shirō Mifune