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- (1959)
- Starring: Kuniko Miyake, Chishu Ryu
- Genre: Comedy Video, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/16/2017
- Features: Blu-ray
- A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu's perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning (Ohayo) tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking as an act... more
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- (1954)
- Starring: Ko (Isao) Kimura, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/29/2023
- Features: DVD
- The residents of an impoverished farming village in 16th-century Japan, anticipating an attack by bandits after harvest, hire seven rōnin to defend them. Upon arrival, the warriors set about to... more
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- (1950)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/6/2012
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo. One of Akira Kurosawa's classic screen achievements takes form in this compelling tale of the murder of a samurai and the rape of his wife in medieval Japan. The crimes... more
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- Starring: Michiyo Kogure, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 6/26/2012
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshiro Mifune. The tour-de-force trilogy by one of Japan's greatest actors is collected here, visually and sonically re-mastered. Follow swordsman Musashi Miyamoto from his days training to his... more
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- (1964)
- Starring: Tetsuro Tamba, Briana Banks
- Genre: Foreign
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/14/2012
- Features: DVD
- Tetsuro Tamba, Isamu Nagato. This first film by Hideo Gosha is among the most canonized chambara (sword-fighting) films. An origin-story offshoot of a Japanese television series of the same name,... more
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- (1954)
- Starring: Ko (Isao) Kimura, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/19/2010
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Daisuke Kato. This epic action classic is considered one of the greatest films of all time. In the 16th century, desperate farmers hire a band of samurai warriors to... more
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- (1961)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/23/2010
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai. In order to free a village from the clutches of a corrupt government, a clever samurai pits two warring gangs against each other. Directed by Akira... more
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- Starring: Kunio Mita, Sugisaku Aoyama
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/21/2010
- Features: DVD
- Years before Akira Kurosawa changed the face of cinema with such iconic works as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Yojimbo, he made his start in the Japanese film industry with four popular and... more
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- (1956)
- Starring: Shoji Yasui, Tatsuya Mihashi
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/12/2007
- Features: DVD
- Shoji Yasui, Rentaro Mikuni. After persuading a group of Japanese mountain fighters to surrender to British forces at the end of WWII, a soldier undergoes a spiritual transformation and becomes... more
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- (1964)
- Starring: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura
- Genre: Horror
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/5/2021
- Features: Subtitled
- Genuinely scary fantasy set in feudal Japan, where a widowed peasant woman and her mother-in-law survive by luring soldiers away from their comrades and slaying them for their armor, until a man... more
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- Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung
- Genre: Action / Adventure
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/30/2019
- Features: Blu-ray
- The set pieces fly fast and furious in these inventive action comedies, two smash hits that made Jackie Chan a worldwide icon of daredevil spectacle and established the director/star/one-man stunt... more
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- (1964)
- Starring: Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre: Horror, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/20/2015
- Features: Blu-ray
- Blu-ray. After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi (The Human Condition) shifted gears dramatically for this... more
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- (1965)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/16/2002
- Features: DVD
- Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama. The patients at a poor medical clinic and a sharp but overbearing doctor teach an enthusiastic young intern hard lessons about the true meaning of practicing medicine. In... more
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- (1953)
- Starring: Mitsuko Mito, Kikue Mouri
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/1/2025
- Features: 4K Mastering, With Blu-ray, Sign Language, Subtitled
- In rural Japan during the civil upheavals of the 16th century, two impoverished friends-a resentful potter (Masayuki Mori) and a farmer (Sakae Ozawa) who craved to be a samurai-dreamed of profit and... more
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- Starring: Keiju Kobayashi, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 1/7/2025
- Features: 4K Mastering, With Blu-ray, Subtitled, Widescreen
- The film that helped inspire the western classic "A Fistful of Dollars," Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" (1961) is a sly commentary on the action movie genre that follows a war-weary samurai (Toshiro... more
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- Starring: Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada
- Genre: Science Fiction, Horror
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/29/2019
- Eight-disc set includes "Godzilla," "Godzilla Raids Again," "King Kong vs. Godzilla," "Mothra vs. Godzilla," "Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster," "Invasion of Astro-Monster," "Ebirah, Horror of the... more
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- (2019)
- Starring: Kang-ho Song, Woo-sik Choi
- Genre: Comedy Video, Foreign-Korean
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/27/2020
- Features: Blu-ray
- Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Choi. In this black-comic thriller about the perils of class inequality, an impoverished family of four slowly work their way into the lives of a... more
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- (1963)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre: Mystery / Suspense, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/26/2011
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa. An affluent urban industrialist is targeted by a mysterious kidnapper, and the police investigation into the crime reveals things about the society of... more
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- (2000)
- Starring: Chen Xisheng, Wu Nien-Chen
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Chinese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/15/2011
- Features: Blu-ray
- Nianzhen Wu, Issey Ogata. Edward Yang's epic covering the one-year examination of daily life in Taipei for a family of five (parents, two children and a grandmother) that begins with a wedding and... more
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- (2000)
- Starring: Maggie Cheung, Roy Cheung
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Chinese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/1/2022
- Features: Subtitled, Widescreen, 2 Pack
- Critically acclaimed effort from Wong Kar-Wai, set in Hong Kong in 1962 and centering on newspaper reporter Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and executive assistant Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung), two married... more
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- (2003)
- Starring: Byun Hee-bong, Kim Rwe-ha
- Genre: Mystery / Suspense, Foreign-Korean
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/20/2021
- Features: Subtitled
- As a rural South Korean town in the mid-1980s was rocked by the brutal and unprecedented efforts of a serial murderer, the instinctive but overmatched local cop (Song Kang-ho) in charge finds his... more
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- (1952)
- Starring: Takashi Shimura
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/24/2015
- Features: Blu-ray
- Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko. The renowned director, Akira Kurosawa, combines poetic imagery and complex flashbacks to tell the story of a man who vows to make his final days meaningful after he... more
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- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Chinese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/23/2021
- Seven-disc set includes: As Tears Go By (1988)The directorial debut of filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai, this crime drama blends what would become his trademark lyricism and romance with the Hong Kong action... more
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- (2000)
- Starring: Maggie Cheung, Roy Cheung
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Chinese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/2/2012
- Features: Blu-ray
- Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (HERO'S Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (IRMA VEP'S Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite... more
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- (1977)
- Starring: Kumiko Oba, Kimiko Ikegami
- Genre: Horror, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/26/2010
- Features: Blu-ray
- How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashis indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? a stream of consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava?... more