Grand Prix (2 Disc Set)
(1966) [PG]

Nine races. One champion. James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford and Antonio Sabato portray Formula I drivers competing to be the best in this slam-you-into-the-driver's seat tale of speed, spectacle and intertwined personal lives. Eva Marie Saint and Toshiro Mifune also star. John...  More

Sanjuro
(1963) [PG]

In response to the huge critical and commercial success of Yojimbo, Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune re-teamed a year later to make Sanjuro, a hilarious comedy of manners altogether more light-hearted than its predecessor. The plot has Sanjuro (Mifune) running lazy rings around nine naive and...  More

Red Beard
(1965) [M]

The last collaboration between Kurosawa and the powerhouse actor Toshiro Mifune, Red Beard is the story of a young and arrogant medical graduate. Assigned to serve at an impoverished local clinic, Dr Yasumoto feels he is better than his surroundings. His superior is Dr Niide- known as 'Red Beard'...  More

Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto
(1954) [PG]

Hiroshi Inagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that has been called Japan's Gone with the Wind. This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (powerfully portrayed by Toshiro Mifune) plays out against the turmoil of a devastating civil war....  More

Scandal (Kurosawa)
(1950) [PG]

Ichiro is a young painter on holiday in the mountains. By chance he meets Miyako- a famous singer who is staying at the same hotel. Wanting privacy, Miyako is uncooperative with the press and soon a tabloid magazine falsely suggests a scandalous relationship between the singer and the young...  More

Samurai 2 : Duel at Ichijoji Temple
(1955) [M]

Part two in the Oscar winning Samurai Trilogy sees Musashi Miyamoto mature from a cynical wanderer into one of Japan's finest swordsmen. When Mushashi challenges a fencing school to prove his prowess, he begins to learn that mastery of the sword is also mastery of the self.  More

Stray Dog
(1949) [M]

Rookie detective Murakumi (Toshiro Mifune) is pick-pocketed on a bus and his police pistol is stolen. A frantic search for the gun leads him to the Tokyo underworld. The gun has been passed to a gangster who uses it in the murder of a woman. Deseperate to solve the crime, Murakumi turns to senior...  More

Samurai Assassin
(1964) [M]

The year is 1860 and the great Tokugawa Shougunate is on shaky ground. Masterless samurai Niiro, desperate to regain his fallen staus, joins the Mito clan in a plot to assassinate an official to the shogun. Based on true events, SAMURAI ASSASSIN features a powerful performance from Toshiro Mifune...  More

High and Low
(1963) [PG]

yle thriller. A ruthless kidnapper, aiming to snatch wealthy industrialist Kingo Gondo's young son, takes the chauffeur's boy by mistake – but still demands the ransom. Gondo is left with an agonising choice, since paying the ransom will ruin him. Meanwhile the tenacious Inspector Tokuro is...  More

Red Lion
(1969) [MA]

When a poor servant (Toshiro Mifune) borrows the Imperial Red Lion mane and impersonates an army officer in town, he expects a warm welcome, but he gets much more than he bargained for. Torn between his friends, incompetent town officials and a secret group of assassins, the bumbling servant is...  More