קוראסאווה נוטש לרגע את סיפורי הסמוראים כדי לגולל סיפור פשוט וצ'כובי על אודות פקיד (טקאשי שימורה, 'שבעת הסמוראים') העושה את חשבון חייו העלובים, ומוכיח כי חמלה אנושית היא רגש אוניברסלי.
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
גנרל ונסיכה בורחים מצורריהם בלוויית שני כפריים זוממים, על מנת להציל את האוצר המלכותי ולהקים מחדש את הממלכה האבודה של בת האצולה. סרט ההרפתקאות הנפלא של אקירה קורואסווה שימש השראה גדולה לג'ורג' לוקאס כשבא לכתוב את "מלחמת הכוכבים". זוכה דוב הכסף בפסטיבל ברלין.
סרטו עטור הפרסים של גדול במאי יפן, אקירה קורוסווה.כשמצביא צבאי רב עוצמה מת ביפן של ימי הביניים, גנב עני שמגוייס להתחזות בדמותו, מתקשה לעמוד בדרישות התפקיד ומתעמת עם רוחו של המצביא בזמנים רבי תהפוכות בממלכה.
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.
Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
Ten-year-old Johnny stands out from his family and his tough neighborhood in Eastern France. He's sensitive, intelligent and interested in all kinds of things way beyond his years. With curiosity, he observes the ups and downs of his young single mother's turbulent love life. Things change when a new teacher, fresh from the big city, takes over Johnny's class. Mr. Adamski believes in Johnny and wants to open a new world to him. The sophisticated young teacher also intrigues the boy.
עיבודו המבריק של סידני לומט ("לפני שהשטן ידע") למחזהו האוטוביוגרפי של יוג'ין או'ניל, על משפחה בלתי מתפקדת שבה האם מכורה למורפיום, האבא שתיין והאח הגדול הוא כישלון. ארבעת השחקנים נותנים הופעה מהפנטת שזיכתה את כולם בפרסים בפסטיבל קאן: קת'רין הפבורן הבלתי מנוצחת (סיפור פילדלפיה), ראלף ריצ'ארדסון (ד"ר ז'יוואגו), דין סטוקוול (קטיפה כחולה) וג'ייסון רובארדס (מגנוליה). את המוזיקה כתב אנדרה פרווין.
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.
A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates.
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One of them is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.
Follows high school teacher Seiji Hasumi's background history and in the process depicts the horror inherent in daily life.
תובע מחוזי מאשים מנהיג איגוד פועלים ברצח על סמך ראיות מפוברקות. כשהסיפור מסתבך, מתברר שהתובע נפל קורבן לקנוניה של סינדיקט פשע.