Masao Shimizu

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In ...

In medieval Japan a compassionate representative is sent into oust. His spouse and children attempt to connect him, but are isolated, and the ...

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman’s banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall. Watch ...

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when ...