Toshiro Mifune
1) Rashomon
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
2) Shōgun
Pub. Date
1980.
Description
The story of a shipwrecked English navigator who becomes a samurai during a struggle for power by a Shogun and the Emperor in feudal Japan.
4) 1941
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
This zany comedy spectacular from Steven Spielberg is set in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor when the fear of a Japanese invasion threw the city into a state of pandemonium.
6) Sanjuro
Series
Criterion collection volume 53
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A group of young men set out to clean up the corruption in their town. They are joined by a scruffy, cynical samurai who doesn't fit their concept of how a warrior should look and act.
9) Winter kills
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
A fictional president of the U.S. is assassinated and his brother uncovers the conspiracy behind the murder several years later.