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

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

I Live In Fear - Record Of A Living Being (Ikimono no kiroku)
(1955) [PG]

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is so frightened and obsessed with the idea of nuclear extermination that his family decides to have him ruled incompetent. Nakajima's fervent wish is for his family to join him in escaping from Japan to the relative safety of South America. Harada, a...  More