Toshiya Ito

Ran — Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlor

Shadow Hunters — The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the collapse of small hans (p

Kagemusha — Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging

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

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era — In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to the armed police of t