Illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi, only in order to seek justice for his father’s suicide.
In this movie, crafty jaded samurai Sanjuro helps a young man and his fellow clansmen weed out their clan’s evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. But the poor village under attack by bandits needs to recruit more unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
At the age of seventy, after years of consolidating his empire, the Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji decides to abdicate and divide his domain amongst his three sons, not knowng that the two corrupt ones will turn against him.
Sanjuro
Seven Samurai
Ran