One of Kurosawa’s lesser urban dramas that deals with the trauma and anxiety of nuclear annihilation through the eyes of a paranoid old patriarch.

Kurosawa’s magnum opus is a glorious triumph and the standard-bearer for bravura epic filmmaking, still yet to be surpassed.

The film that launched Japanese cinema into serious international reckoning, and quite simply one of Kurosawa’s very best.

A solid early work by Kurosawa in what is a clever cat-and-mouse chase that leads to an emotional climax.