For fans of Akira Kurosawa: what to watch, read & play next

A low-ranking vassal defies a greedy superior — underdog solidarity against entrenched power, with plenty of action.

A ronin returns to Edo after years away, carrying the life shaped by an adoptive master swordsman.

A wandering swordsman honours a dying man's last wish and finds himself between a small town and its gangsters.

The 47 Ronin story told as slow, principled tragedy — loyalty and sacrifice in the wake of a lord's death sentence.

A samurai who dreams of a unified country enters a lord's service and navigates ambition and moral compromise.

Seven eccentric master swordsmen join forces to protect an inexperienced Shogun from a corrupt rival clan.

A woman and her daughter murdered by soldiers return as supernatural predators hunting samurai through the forest.

Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta that led to the revenge of the 47 Ronin.

A Japanese journalist covers Brazil's gold rush and finds herself alone among desperate fortune-seekers.

A feudal tournament fought with real swords — one-armed Fujiki and a blind swordsman meet in a lethal final match.

In 1931 Japan, an assassination squad operates beneath a surface of Onmyodo esoteric power and modern politics.

A skilled thief gang operates across Edo, the Tokaido road and the Kansai region during the Kyoho period.

A master swordsman and his son run a dojo in Edo and find themselves drawn into the troubles of the townspeople.

A wandering female swordsman with a strong sense of honour rights wrongs across feudal Japan — warm and sharp.

A fifteen-year-old driven by revenge joins the Shinsengumi and must live with what that choice demands.

A mute swordsman wanders Japan hunting the man who murdered his parents — grief turned into solitary purpose.

Tokyo, 1956 — an ex-cop turned private eye investigates bizarre murders alongside a friend in the police.

Early summer in Hinamizawa — a small rural village where something beneath the peaceful surface goes wrong.

June 1983, Hinamizawa — the same village and the same summer, explored from a different character's vantage.

Hinamizawa in early summer — an outsider arrives in the village during what seems like an ordinary June.

June 1983, Hinamizawa — the village's cycle of dread continues, with fewer than two thousand people caught inside it.

Hinamizawa, another June — the small village carries its burden as cicadas mark the passage of an uneasy summer.

Early summer in Hinamizawa — the village, the festival season, and a community of fewer than two thousand.

June 1983, Hinamizawa — the final chapter in the village's long summer of dread and communal reckoning.

Miyamoto Musashi's own guide to strategy — a sixteenth-century warrior's distilled philosophy of swordfighting.

A young Chinese man recuperates at a Japanese coastal home on the eve of the Second World War — quiet and luminous.

A twenty-year-old goes to Tokyo to find the father he never knew and stumbles into the Japanese underworld.

Japanese fiction set in a mountain valley — a seasonal rhythm of life in the countryside.

A dying marriage told through parallel diaries — a middle-aged couple's hidden desires laid bare.

A conscientious objector disappears into Japan's countryside during the war, surviving as an itinerant peddler.

Three men each carrying a separate grievance converge — revenge, ambition, and fate pulling toward a collision.

The epic life of Miyamoto Musashi — a child of civil-war Japan forged into the most celebrated swordsman in history.