Mitsuo Tsuda

Farewell Rabaul — A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanes

Ikiru — Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he

Yojimbo — A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are stru

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs — Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vic

The Eagle of the Pacific — Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about l