Films scored by Fumio Hayasaka

1954 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa

is a 1950 Japanese period drama (jidaigeki) film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura, it follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest. The plot and characters are based upon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove", with the title and framing story taken from Akutagawa's "Rashōmon". Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the assault of the wife, an

is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

1949 film by Akira Kurosawa

1948 film by Akira Kurosawa

1951 film by Akira Kurosawa

Ugetsu (雨月物語, Ugetsu Monogatari, lit. "Rain-moon tales") is a 1953 Japanese period fantasy film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō. It is based on the stories "The House in the Thicket" and "The Lust of the White Serpent" from Ueda Akinari's 1776 book Ugetsu Monogatari, combining elements of the jidaigeki (period drama) genre with a ghost story.

1954 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

1955 film by Akira Kurosawa

1950 film by Akira Kurosawa

1951 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

1955 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

1954 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

1950 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

1950 film by Senkichi Taniguchi

1951 film by Mikio Naruse

novel by Shohei Ooka; 1951 film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

1940 film directed by Yutaka Abe