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1. Seven Samurai (1954)
Not Rated | 207 min | Action, Drama
Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki
Votes: 367,027 | Gross: $0.27M
2. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (II) (1959)
Not Rated | 181 min | Drama, History, War
As a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kokinji Katsura, Jun Tatara
Votes: 7,509
3. High and Low (1963)
Not Rated | 143 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 53,266
4. To Live (1952)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama
A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka
Votes: 87,638 | Gross: $0.06M
5. Hadakakko (1961)
149 min | Drama
A young boy, Genta, bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.
Director: Tomotaka Tasaka | Stars: Ineko Arima, Michiyo Kogure, Rentarô Mikuni, Toshitaka Itô
Votes: 29
6. Rashomon (1950)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 180,588 | Gross: $0.10M
7. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Not Rated | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Votes: 42,273
8. Throne of Blood (1957)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 55,995
9. The Face of Another (1966)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijirô Hira, Kyôko Kishida, Miki Irie
Votes: 10,439
10. Stray Dog (1949)
Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Votes: 18,948
11. Shishi no jidai (1980)
Drama, History
Stars: Shun'ichi Ban, Minoru Chiaki, Bunta Sugawara, Yoshi Katô
Votes: 6
12. Yôtô monogatari: hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin-giri (1960)
109 min | Action, Fantasy
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in ... See full summary »
Director: Tomu Uchida | Stars: Chiezô Kataoka, Yaeko Mizutani, Isao Kimura, Akiko Santô
Votes: 314
13. Umi no koto (1966)
130 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Tomotaka Tasaka | Stars: Yoshiko Sakuma, Katsuo Nakamura, Ganjirô Nakamura, Hisano Yamaoka
Votes: 37
14. Narazu-mono (1956)
95 min | Action, Adventure
Director: Nobuo Aoyagi | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Yumi Shirakawa, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 15
15. The Youth and His Amulet (1961)
111 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy's rescue in times of difficulty.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toru Koyanagi, Hisako Sakabe, Toshirô Mifune, Chishû Ryû
Votes: 27
16. Sanjûrokunin no jôkyaku (1957)
96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A detective on his holiday and a thug happen to ride the same bus that is going to a ski resort. The detective has to find and arrest the criminal among 35 passengers.
Director: Toshio Sugie | Stars: Hiroshi Koizumi, Keiko Awaji, Chikage Ôgi, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 12
17. Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
TV-PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Musashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He agrees to fight him in a year's time.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa
Votes: 6,703
18. Chiisakobe (1962)
170 min | Drama
Director: Tomotaka Tasaka | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Chiemi Eri, Katsuo Nakamura, Hiroko Sakuramachi
Votes: 24
19. Anyakôro (1959)
144 min
Adapted from Naoya Shiga's novel about the emotional turmoil of a man who suspects that his wife is committing adultery with his father.
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Fujiko Yamamoto, Chikage Awashima, Tatsuya Nakadai
Votes: 10
20. The Inheritance (1962)
107 min | Drama
A dying businessman intends to will two hundred million yen to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Keiko Kishi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Sô Yamamura, Seiji Miyaguchi
Votes: 1,067
21. A Wife's Heart (1956)
101 min | Drama
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop.She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't help and then her husband becomes jealous of the loan officer.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Akemi Negishi
Votes: 228
22. Little Peach (1958)
110 min | Drama
Kyoko, the daughter of a successful novelist, marries an aspiring writer. However, her husband's difficulties with his writing and his resentment over her father cause deep strains in the marriage.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Sô Yamamura, Kyôko Kagawa, Isao Kimura, Keiju Kobayashi
Votes: 178
23. Bijo to touzoku (1952)
80 min | Adventure
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which ... See full summary »
Director: Keigo Kimura | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Rentarô Mikuni, Minoru Chiaki
Votes: 17
24. Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka (1959)
105 min | Romance
A wealthy man falls in love with a prostitute.
Director: Tomu Uchida | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Ineko Arima, Kinuyo Tanaka, Keiko Yukishiro
Votes: 101
25. Mole Alley (1953)
97 min | Drama
33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she ... See full summary »
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu | Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Minoru Chiaki, Kazuo Dan, Kikuko Hanaoka
Votes: 8
26. I Live in Fear (1955)
103 min | Drama
An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Eiko Miyoshi
Votes: 5,546
27. Sengoku gunto-den (1959)
115 min | Action, Drama, Adventure
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting and befriending Taro, Rokuro decides to ... See full summary »
Director: Toshio Sugie | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Kôji Tsuruta, Yôko Tsukasa, Misa Uehara
Votes: 91
28. 20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 1 (1961)
88 min
With plenty of action, and a strong story about the growth and development of an expert swordsman, who just happens to be from an extremely privileged background.
Director: Sadatsugu Matsuda | Stars: Minoru Chiaki, Kensaku Hara, Yumiko Hasegawa, Mikijirô Hira
Votes: 9
29. Same (1964)
166 min | Drama
Director: Tomotaka Tasaka | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Yoshiko Mita, Michiyo Kogure, Minoru Chiaki
Votes: 8
30. The Idiot (1951)
Not Rated | 166 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga
Votes: 5,666
31. The Lower Depths (1957)
Not Rated | 137 min | Drama
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Ganjirô Nakamura
Votes: 5,952
32. Scandal (1950)
Approved | 105 min | Drama
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku
Votes: 4,674
33. The Men of Tohoku (1957)
59 min | Drama
The isolated village of Tohoku is surrounded by high mountains, and has a tradition that only the eldest sons may marry and inherit. The filthy, unshaven younger sons, called yakkos, work ... See full summary »
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Hiroshi Akutagawa, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Jun Hamamura
Votes: 24
34. Hiya-meshi to Osan to Chan (1965)
178 min | Comedy, Drama
An omnibus of three stories. In "Hiyameshi," our hero collects antique books and falls for a beauty. Next, our hero cannot forget his ex-wife named "Osan." In the last one called "Chan," our hero is a family man who drinks too much.
Director: Tomotaka Tasaka | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Michiyo Kogure, Wakaba Irie, Shôichi Ozawa
Votes: 34
35. Sei no kigen (1967)
89 min | Drama
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Kayo Matsuo, Hideo Kanze
Votes: 24
36. Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no mon (1974)
119 min | Drama, War
Director: Mitsuo Murayama | Stars: Terumi Niki, Yumiko Fujita, Kawai Okada, Keiko Torii
Votes: 23
37. Gobanchô Yûgirirô (1963)
137 min | Drama, Romance
A forlorn love story between a young monk and his childhood sweet-heart set in post WWII Japan.
Director: Tomotaka Tasaka | Stars: Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Yoshiko Sakuma, Michiyo Kogure, Yatsuko Tan'ami
Votes: 35
38. Lord Mito 3: All Star Version (1960)
94 min | Drama
In 1691 there are a series of fires in several towns across Japan. When there's also a fire in Kyoto, the Shogun's uncle - the Elder Lord of Mito - sets out to discover who's behind the arson, and stopping them.
Director: Sadatsugu Matsuda | Stars: Chiyonosuke Azuma, Minoru Chiaki, Sentarô Fushimi, Utaemon Ichikawa
Votes: 7
39. The Body (1962)
85 min | Drama
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
Director: Masashige Narusawa | Stars: Michiko Saga, Ichirô Sugai, Kumeko Urabe, Kazuko Matsuo
Votes: 15
40. Yatarô gasa (1960)
96 min | Drama
Director: Masahiro Makino | Stars: Chiyonosuke Azuma, Minoru Chiaki, Susumu Fujita, Sumiko Hidaka
Votes: 19
41. Travels of Hibari and Chiemi 2: The Lovebird's 1000 Ryo Umbrella (1963)
87 min | Comedy
Before she is to be married of according to the clan's will, Princess Kimi escapes for a last gasp of freedom. Toshi, her loyal and always ravenous servant - as well as bosom friend - has to keep the show running.
Director: Tadashi Sawashima | Stars: Minoru Chiaki, Chiemi Eri, Ryûji Kita, Hibari Misora
Votes: 7
42. Love Under the Crucifix (1962)
102 min | Drama
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka | Stars: Ineko Arima, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ganjirô Nakamura, Mieko Takamine
Votes: 273
43. The Revolutionary (1962)
100 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Hashizô Ôkawa, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Satomi Oka, Rentarô Mikuni
Votes: 205
44. Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey (1962)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Tadashi Sawashima | Stars: Chiyonosuke Azuma, Minoru Chiaki, Chiemi Eri, Hibari Misora
Votes: 14
45. Vendetta of a Samurai (1952)
82 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.
Director: Kazuo Mori | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yuriko Hamada, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Katayama
Votes: 283
46. Shirakoya Komako (1960)
92 min
Director: Kenji Misumi | Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Mieko Kondô, Ryûzô Shimada
Votes: 7
47. Hana ichimonme (1985)
122 min | Drama
Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer's disease, but his affliction serves to deepen family ties.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Yukiyo Toake, Minoru Chiaki, Teruhiko Saigô, Yumiko Nogawa
Votes: 35
48. Song of Love (1967)
94 min | Comedy
Sentimental comedy taking place at a harbour in the inland sea.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Chieko Baishô, Jin Nakayama, Junzaburô Ban, Ichirô Arishima
Votes: 29
49. Sanada fûunroku (1963)
100 min | Comedy, Fantasy, History
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a ... See full summary »
Director: Tai Katô | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Misako Watanabe, Wataru Ômae, Fujio Tokita
Votes: 49
50. Zero faita dai kûsen (1966)
92 min | Action, Drama, War
Director: Shirô Moritani | Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Makoto Satô, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Yoshio Tsuchiya
Votes: 27