Directed and acted by Toshiro Mifune. English subtitles.

During the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a huge cache of gold in the Phillippine mountains. Years after the war, he is kidnapped by Mitsura and Keigo Gunji, brothers who want Matsuo to lead them to the still-buried gold. Matsuo, who is tormented by the memories of the half-million Japanese who died in the Phillippines during the war, wants to make off with the gold and return it to the Japanese people. But of course the Gunji brothers have other ideas.

English subtitles. This is Mifune's 2nd film after These Foolish Times.

Three bank robbers (Mifune, Takashi Shimura, and Yoshio Kosugi) are on the run from the police, who hide out in the snowy Japanese mountains in a remote lodge inhabited by an old man, his granddaughter and an intrepid mountaineer (Akitake Kono) trapped there by a recent blizzard. They don't know that the men are criminals, and a tense standoff starts to unfold.

Starring Toshiro Mifune. Japanese, no subtitles.

Jakoman, a one eyed outlaw, wreaks havoc in a herring based seaport in Hokkaido. Tetsu (Mifune), the son of the president of a local fishing company, decides to battle Jakoman, having had enough of his reign of terror.

This is Mifune's 6th film.

Starring Toshiro Mifune. Japanese, no subtitles.

An ensemble "tragicomedy" about people struggling for a living in postwar Japan, including a woman who paints portriats on a street corner, a trio of shoeshine boys, an imitation jewelry maker, and girls working in a patchinko parlor

Starring Toshiro Mifune. English subtitles.

Description: Combining the talents of Mifune Toshiro, Nakadai Tatsuya, and master filmmaker Okamoto Kihachi, this is possibly the greatest war film to come out of Japan. Mifune plays Sergeant Kosugi, who, although decorated for valor has been sent to the Manchurian front after striking a superior officer. On his way to the fort, he falls in with a military band, none of whom have weapons, just their musical instruments, and it falls to him to make them into soldiers who must capture the strategic Fort Graveyard from the Chinese. Nakadai is brilliant as Captain Sakuma, the commanding officer who sends Kosugi and his squad on this suicidal mission. Brutal action and macabre humor combine to make this film an outstanding anti-war statement. Although best known in the West for his samurai films ”Samurai Assassin” and ”Sword of Doom”, Okamoto is considered one of Japan’s greatest directors and this is a true masterpiece. As with ”Desperado Outpost”, this movie is set during the waning days of the Second World War in Manchuria where the tide has turned against the Japanese army and life is cheap.

Starring Toshiro Mifune. English subtitles.
(Also called :Engagement Ring")

Description: A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband’s illness.

Starring Toshiro Mifune. Japanese, no subtitles.

Description: An anthology film following a kindhearted cab driver, Matsumura, and the people he picks up along the way.

Starring Toshiro Mifune. Japanese, no subtitles.

Description: Model prisoner Goro Sakata (Mifune) suddenly breaks out of prison when he hears rumor that his wife is cheating on him with a doctor. Can love conquer his newfound hatred?