Masayuki Yui

Cicada is the story of Jumpei– a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but then is given the gift of ...

Tamotsu is expecting a persimmon to dry and yet he cannot accept that it is time for a man on his deathbed to die. As the persimmon mysteriously, ...

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Kagemusha” (1980).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Throne of Blood” (1957).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Seven Samurai” (1954).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Yojimbo” (1961).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “High and Low” (1963).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Dodes’ka-den” (1970).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Stray Dog” (1949).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Ikiru” (1952).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “The Lower Depths” (1957).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “The Bad Sleep Well” (1960).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “The Hidden Fortress” (1958).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Sanjuro” (1962).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Drunken Angel” (1948).

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest ...

The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he’s not the mad vigilante portrayed in ...

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 ...

Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an ageing warlord divides his ...

Akira Kurosawa’s lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order ...