Akira Kurosawa
1943
Sanshiro Sugata
A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading br…
1944
The Most Beautiful
Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quota…
1945
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his…
1946
No Regrets for Our Youth
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repr…
1946
Those Who Make Tomorrow
In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up…
1947
One Wonderful Sunday
Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as th…
1948
Drunken Angel
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with…
1949
Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a ho…
1949
The Quiet Duel
A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field…
1950
Rashomon
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his…
1950
Scandal
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn o…
1951
The Idiot
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled…
1952
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic pos…
1952
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way thro…