Masayuki Yui

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 “Yojimbo” (1961).

This film tells the story of professor Uehida Hyakken-sama (1889-1971), in Gotemba, around the forties. He was a university professor until an ...

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 ...

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

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

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century ...

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 ...