Masayuki Yui Movies

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between...

A feudal epic presenting the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing...

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest...

In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who...

A 43-minute video piece reconstructing Kagemusha through Akira Kurosawa's paintings and sketches.

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out...

Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player....

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two" (1945).

Cicada is the story of Jumpei-- a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but then is given the gift of clairvoyance...

Masayuki Yui, who directed the following, acted in four of Akira Kurosawa's final films: Kagemusha, Ran, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, and Madadayo. Here,...

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "No Regrets for Our Youth" (1946).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "One Wonderful Sunday" (1947).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Red Beard" (1965).

A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the...

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail" (1945).

When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged...

In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the...

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "I Live in Fear" (1955).

The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.