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Actors: Scott Glenn, Toshiro Mifune, Donna Kei Benz, Atsuo Nakamura, Calvin Jung
Synopsis: The Challenge is a classy effort directed by John Frankenheimer. Scott Glenn stars as an American boxer who finds himself in the middle of a Japanese blood feud. Toshiro Mifune and Atsuo Nakamura plays the last surviving brothers of an ancient samurai family, embroiled in a battle of the Read More
Synopsis: Director Kon Ichikawa (b. 1915) has been responsible for some extraordinary Japanese statements about our common humanity and the horrors of war. He began his filmmaking career as a cartooning art supervisor, and later, in collaboration with his scenarist and scriptwriter wife (Natto Wada), made Read More
Actors: Toshiro Mifune, So Yamamura, Chishu Ryu, Seiji Miyaguchi, Rokko Toura
Synopsis: This star-studded and relatively lavishly produced fact-based war drama, set in 1945 Japan during WW II, chronicles the attempts of Japan's War Minister, (played by Toshiro Mifune), to prevent Emperor Hirohito from publicly broadcasting the declaration of surrender. The War Minister rallies those Read More
Actors: Koji Takahashi, Mutsuhiro Toura
Synopsis: A seemingly simple assignment sends a warrior for hire into a labyrinth of danger and intrigue in this intelligent and expressive action vehicle from filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda. In Japan in the year 1614, Sasuke Sarutobi (Koji Takahashi) is a retainer of the Sanada Clan who has grown weary of the Read More
Actors: Tetsuro Tamba, Shima Iwashita, Chieko Baisho, Seiji Miyaguchi
Synopsis: Japanese screenwriter Hideo Oguni, who had previously worked on such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961), contributed his adept storytelling to this drama shortly after working on Kurosawa's intriguing High and Low (1962). Like Seven Samurai, as the title indicates Read More
Actors: Shima Iwashita, Seiji Miyaguchi, Teruo Yoshida, Tamotsu Hayakawa
Synopsis: In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and Read More
Actors: Yoko Katsuragi, Seiji Miyaguchi
Synopsis: This well-paced, effective drama by director Ko Nakashira eloquently decries the foibles of adultery by looking at a worst possible scenario. Young Kikuko (Yoko Katsuragi) is married to an older university professor and because of the age difference as well as several other factors, she is bored Read More
Actors: Keiji Sada, Yunosuke Ito, Seiji Miyaguchi, Taiji Tonoyama
Synopsis: Dirty dealings in the world of high finance -- actually, the world of high gangsters -- is the subject of this standard crime drama by director Noburo Nakamura. A group of Japanese hoodlums decide to set up a fake securities corporation in order to bilk investors of their money. They are clever Read More
Actors: Toshiro Mifune
Synopsis: In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old feudal misconceptions lingering in modern corruption, and Shakespeare's Hamlet. The rotten corporate world is taken on by Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune), who is looking for Read More
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, So Yamamura, Eitaro Ozawa, Ineko Arima, Akira Ishihama
Synopsis: Originally titled Ningen No Joken, No Greater Love is the first of Japanese filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi's Human Condition trilogy. Drawing from his own experiences, Kobayashi weaves the tale of a Japanese pacifist, trying to get by as best he can during World War II. Tatsuya Nakadai plays the Read More
Actors: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yuko Mochizuki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yunosuke Ito, Danko Ichikawa
Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, The Ballad of Narayama is built around an ancient Japanese custom. Centuries ago, it was customary for the younger citizens of a remote Japanese mountain village to shepherd all those over the age of seventy to the snowy crags of Mt. Narayama. There the Read More
Synopsis: Based on a popular "sun tribe" novel, Punishment Room hues close to the genre's traits in depicting the violent and sexually promiscuous adventures of Tokyo's decadent, wealthy teens. The plot follows Katsumi (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), a precociously cruel and scheming college student, as he takes Read More
Actors: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Kato, Ko (Isao) Kimura
Synopsis: Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. The film opens with master samurai Kambei (Takashi Shimura) posing as a monk to save a kidnapped farmer's child. Impressed by his selflessness and bravery, a group of farmers begs him Read More
Actors: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki, Miki Odagiri, Makoto Kobori
Synopsis: Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru details the existential struggle of one ordinary man in his desperate search for purpose. Upon learning he has terminal stomach cancer, a low-level government bureaucrat (Takashi Shimura) leaves his job of thirty years without a word to find meaning in the year he has left Read More
Actors: Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichiro Sugai
Synopsis: Writer/director Yasujiro Ozu combines two of his favorite themes--the culture clashes in modern Japan and the emergence of the independent Japanese woman--in Early Summer (Bakushu). Setsuko Hara plays a young woman of the post-war era who is promised in an arranged marriage. But too much has Read More
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