During a Sunday trip into war ravaged Tokyo, despairing Yuzo and optimistic Masako look for work and lodging, as well as affordable entertainments to pass the time
A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman
A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation The doctors life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesnt destroy others along with him
A Japanese general and his men disguise themselves as monks in order to pass an enemy border patrol
Three generations responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer
An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeurs son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent
The daughter of a politically disgraced university professor struggles to find a place for herself in love and life, in the uncertain world of Japan leading into WWII
An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family
A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawas recurring dreams
A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer
A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lords double When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place
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A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond
Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines
Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley
During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurais ghost and a woodcutter
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town
A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons However, he vastly underestimates how the new found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other and him
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