Tatsuya Ishiguro

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.

Dir. Hideo Gosha · With Tetsuro Tamba, Isamu Nagato, Mikijiro Hira

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.

Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi · With Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyōko Kagawa, Eitarō Shindō

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.

Dir. Kon Ichikawa · With Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis