Taivas ja helvetti on Akira Kurosawan ohjaama elokuva vuodelta 1963. Se perustuu Ed McBainin kirjoittamaan amerikkalaiseen poliisikertomukseen. Taivas tarkoittaa tässä tapauksessa yläluokan maailmaa, helvetti kaupungin satamakortteleita, joissa ihmishenki ei ole palaneen tulitikunkaan arvoinen.Se on valmistumisaikansa Japania kuvaava pureva satiiri, joka etääntyy ohjaajan aiempien teosten ihanteista. Elokuva osoitttaa, miksi Kurosawaa pidetään Japanin merkittävimpänä ohjaajana.
Vakavamielinen veteraanivirkamies saa synkän lääketieteellisen diagnoosin, mikä innostaa häntä muuttamaan etelärannikolle nauttimaan elämästä. Siellä hän tapaa itseään nuoremman naispuolisen kollegan, joka saa miehen täyteen uutta energiaa.
Kagemusha – varjokenraali kertoo mahtavan Takeda-klaanin romahtamisesta ja tuhosta Japanin sotaisella Sengoku-kaudella 1570-luvulla, samurai-ylimys Takeda Shingenin kohtalon kautta. Elokuvassa Takeda Shingeniä ja tämän kaksoisolentoa (kagemushaa) esittää Kurosawan luottonäyttelijöihin kuulunut Tatsuya Nakadai.
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers.
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.
From Executive Producer Hisao Kurosawa (Dreams, Ran) comes the untold story of one of the world's greatest women artists and why her name nearly was lost to history. Many Beautiful Things plunges viewers into the complex age of Victorian England to meet Lilias Trotter, a daring young woman who defied all norms by winning the favor of England's top art critic, John Ruskin. In an era when women were thought incapable of producing high art, Ruskin promised that her work could be "immortal." But with her legacy on the line, Lilias made a stunning decision that bids us to question the limits of sacrifice. As Lilias journeys to French Algeria in the late 1800s to pioneer work with women and children, viewers are left to wonder, "Could you abandon a dream to pursue your true calling?" Featuring the voices of Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey) and John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones).