High and Low (1962) more movies like this

directed by Akira Kurosawa
featuring Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Nakadai

Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo, a wealthy industrialist. Gondo is contacted by a gang of kidnappers, who inform him that they've kidnapped his son. The crooks demand a huge ransom for the boy's return -- an amount so huge that it will utterly bankrupt ...

see all copies from $2.68!

new only from $33.16!

Madadayo (1993) more movies like this

directed by Akira Kurosawa
featuring Tatsuo Matsumara, Kyoko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa

Akira Kurosawa's swansong is a delicate, sentimental portrait of his long avowed hero, educator and literary figure Hyakken Uchida. At the film's opening, Uchida -- a professor of German literature at a military school where he is beloved for his wisdom and his impish humor -- is delivering his final lecture to his adoring students. Near the end ...

see all copies from $1.99!

Red Beard (1965) more movies like this

directed by Akira Kurosawa
featuring Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kyoko Kagawa, Miyuki Kuwano

In 1820, young Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) completes his medical education in Nagasaki and returns to his native Edo hoping both to marry the daughter of a wealthy man and to achieve affluence himself through his medical practice. He happens to visit the famed Koishikawa clinic for the indigent, which is run by the autocratic Dr. Kyojo Niide ...

see all copies from $29.95!

new only from $33.16!

Sansho the Bailiff (1954) more movies like this

directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
featuring Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyoko Kagawa, Eitaro Shindo, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Ichiro Sugai

Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece opens in 11th-century Japan with an aristocratic woman Tamaki traveling through the woods with her daughter Anju, son Zushio, and maid. Through flashbacks, we learn that her husband, Taira no Masauji, was a local governor who was exiled because of his honesty and integrity. Before he leaves, he gives his son an amulet ...

see all copies from $33.16!

new only from $33.16!

The Lower Depths (1957) more movies like this

directed by Akira Kurosawa
featuring Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyoko Kagawa, Bokuzen Hidari, Ganjiro Nakamura

Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths from Imperial Russia to his own country's Edo Period--which, like Gorky's 19th-century setting, was an era of great cultural advances, offset by the miseries of those who weren't in the aristocracy. Kurosawa's film concentrates on Toshiro Mifune, ...

see all copies from $4.29!

new only from $44.88!

Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) more movies like this

directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
featuring Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyoko Kagawa, Eitaro Shindo

Master filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi directs this tale of star-crossed lovers, based on a puppet play by Monzaemon Chikamatsu. Set in 1693 during a period of rigid feudal hierarchy and strict social customs, the film unfolds in the estate of a miserly scroll maker named Ishun (Eitaro Shindo). While Ishun busies himself by harassing a comely worker ...

see all copies from $99.95!

Tokyo Story (1953) more movies like this

directed by Yasujiro Ozu
featuring Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, So Yamamura, Setsuko Hara, Kyoko Kagawa

As with much of director Yasujiro Ozu's work, a plot summary of this film does not do justice to the emotional power that Ozu lends to this sad, understated tale. An elderly couple, Shukichi (Chishu Ryu) and Tomi Hirayama (Chieko Higashiyama), leaves their small coastal village in southern Japan to visit their married children in Tokyo. Their ...

see all copies from $14.99!

new only from $14.99!