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 Nora Inu 野良犬 (Stray Dog / 1949) is a classic film directed by Akira Kuraswa 黒澤明and starring Toshirō Mifune.Set in Tokyo during the late 1940's, the film captures the chaos and humiliation that existed in Japan immediately after World War II. When detective Murakami loses his revolver he must descend into Tokyo's underworld and face the killer who has taken it. English subtitles.
Ikiru 生きる (To Live / 1952). Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a government clerk spends his last months in search of a meaning to life. Directed by Akira Kuraswa 黒澤明. Subtitles in English.
A classic --- Rashomon (1950). Akira Kurosawa's breakthrough drama stars Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo. has English subtitles.
Another Akira Kurosawa classic: They Who Step on Tiger's Tail [Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi] (1945. ) "A fugitive lord and his bodyguards and followers, all disguised as monks, traverse a forest)" --- Internet Movie database
And yet another Akira Kurosawa classic: Sugata Sanshiro (1943). Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. This is in Japanese, but English subtitles can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.
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