Sanshô dayû (AKA: Sansho the Bailiff)

IMDB: 8.4/10

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

Tsubaki Sanjûrô (AKA: Sanjuro)

IMDB: 8.0/10

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

Kumonosu-jô (AKA: Throne of Blood)

IMDB: 8.0/10

A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

Ugetsu monogatari (AKA: Ugetsu)

IMDB: 8.1/10

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

Altered States

IMDB: 6.9/10

A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.

The 13th Warrior

IMDB: 6.6/10

A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador. Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly em...