Best Mifune

A 1969 Japanese film directed by Hideo Gosha, starring Shintaro Katsu as a manipulated Bakumatsu-era assassin, with Raizo Ichikawa in one of his final screen roles.

1965 Japanese samurai film directed by Kihachi Okamoto, starring Toshiro Mifune as a ronin entangled in the conspiracy surrounding the historical 1860 Sakuradamon Incident.

A 1969 Japanese film directed by Kihachi Okamoto, starring Toshiro Mifune as a foot soldier who returns to his hometown as an imperial army officer during the Meiji Restoration.

A 1978 Toei jidaigeki directed by Kinji Fukasaku, starring Sonny Chiba as Yagyu Jubei amid Tokugawa-era political conspiracy involving the shadowy influence of the Yagyu sword clan.

1970 Japanese samurai film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, notable for featuring both Toshiro Mifune and Shintaro Katsu as Zatoichi in the same production.

1959 Japanese samurai film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki that retells the Cyrano de Bergerac story, transplanting its themes of unrequited love into feudal Japan.

Japanese period action film following a highly skilled swordsman pulled into escalating conflict, set against the social and political tensions of feudal Japan.

A 1989 Japanese jidaigeki film featuring Sonny Chiba as a samurai bodyguard tasked with protecting the Tokugawa shogunate's young heir from a conspiracy of assassins.

1960 Japanese samurai film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi, starring Toshiro Mifune as a wandering ronin whose gambling habits entangle him in local power struggles.

1959 Japanese period film directed by Toshio Sugie, featuring Toshiro Mifune as a wandering swordsman who rallies a band of outcasts against a corrupt local clan.