Based on a book by noted novelist Shusaku Endo, this film concerns three lost souls looking for meaning and redemption:...
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1995
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The struggles of a young Japanese who leaves her home to marry an stranger are chronicled in this historical drama based on...
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The Benshi
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1995
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Based on a best-selling novel, this drama, set amongst a remote Eskimo tribe in 1935, was -- at the time it was produced --...
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Ramook
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1992
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Lord Takugawa Ieyasu
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1992
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For those unfamiliar with its deep meaning, the Japanese tea ceremony appears to be a long, incredibly boring, basically...
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Rikyu
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1989
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1988
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Princess From the Moon (Taketori Monogatari) is based on an ancient Japanese legend. Toshiro Mifune plays a 9th century...
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Taketori-no-Miaytsuko
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1987
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Junkichi Ueno
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1987
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The style of this undistinguished action film follows a 1940s Sam Spade mode that is intriguing, but the story of Joe (Saburo...
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1984
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Yoshida
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1982
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This infamous Korean War drama is best known as the movie produced by Rev. Sung Myung Moon's Unification Church, though more...
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Saito-San
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1981
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1980
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The Bushido Blade is set in 19th century Japan, at the time of American Commodore Matthew Perry's opening up of the ancient...
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1980
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Based on the epic novel by James Clavell, Shogun originated as an epic five-part television miniseries, filmed on location in...
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Toranaga
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1980
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1979
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Japanese screen legend Toshiro Mifune bids farewell to the character he made famous in this tale of death and deception also...
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Producer
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1979
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It's December of 1941, and the people of California are in varying states of unease, ranging from a sincere desire to defend...
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Cmdr. Mitamura
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1979
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You've seen him as the bone-cracking anti-hero of the Street Fighter films, now watch Sonny Chiba team with Japanese screen...
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1978
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For a brief period during the 16th century, the Portuguese and Dutch were permitted influence in Japan, with the result that...
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Tajko Hideyoshi
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1978
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In this gangster film, the Japanese mafia (yakuza) are shown to be "dark suits," or corporation men, not substantially...
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1978
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Japan's greatest actor, Toshiro Mifune, and their most powerful action star, Sonny Chiba, team up in this historical action...
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1978
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In this drama, an international crisis is spawned after a young American man is killed in Tokyo. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1977
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1976
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David Niven is an English tutor for the son of the Japanese ambassador to a Southeast Asian country. The two are used as...
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Ambassador Kagoyama
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1975
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In what was billed as "The First East-Meets-West Western," Toshiro Mifune plays Kuroda, a samurai warrior who accompanies a...
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Kuroda
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1971
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The Japanese title of Band of Assassins was Shinsengumi, which pinpointed the assassins in question. The Shinshen was a...
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1971
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In Zatoichi vs. Yojimbo, one of many Japanese samurai films starring the blind swordsman Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu), he has to...
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Yojimbo
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1970
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In this Japanese film, the Shimoda police station gets a new judo instructor who soon finds himself in love with the...
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1969
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Furin Kazan (AKA Samurai Banners) is based on the bestselling Japanese novel of the same name, written by Yasushi Inove....
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Yamamoto
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1969
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In this samurai tale, a brave warrior is told by the newly restored emperor that he must return to his home village and...
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Producer
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1969
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This extravagant Japanese docudrama recounts the conflict between Japan and Russia during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05....
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1969
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This Japanese action movie is set in Kyoto during the 16th-century. At that time the town was in turmoil over a hefty food...
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1969
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An aging master swordsman becomes the advisor of a powerful 16th-century warlord. Trouble erupts when the proud leader...
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1969
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The entire cast of Hell in the Pacific consists of two high-powered international stars: Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. The...
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Japanese Soldier
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1968
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In this Japanese costumer set in the 17th century, three powerful families endeavor to keep three sacred scrolls from ever...
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Tasaburo
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1968
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The building of a dam provides the framework for this Japanese drama. The trouble is that the dam is to be built along a...
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Producer
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1968
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In this sequel to the Japanese epic, Secret Scrolls, Part 1 (1957), the Samurai wizard and his brother finally find one of...
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Tasaburo
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1968
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Lord Akashi (Toshiro Mifune) is a heroic warrior who comes to the aid of the needy and the oppressed. He is hired to guard a...
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Lord Akashi
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1968
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Kumaza
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1967
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In this epic Japanese samurai adventure, a bloodthirsty young fighter (Tatsuya Nakadai) kills a man in competition and is...
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Toranosuke Shimada
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1967
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In this moral drama, the captain of a Japanese trawler must make a difficult decision. The story begins as the boat returns...
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1967
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This star-studded and relatively lavishly produced fact-based war drama, set in 1945 Japan during WW II, chronicles the...
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War Minister Anami
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1967
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A father and son prepare to die for their beliefs in this historical drama set in 18th century Japan. While Isaburo Sasahara...
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Isaburo Sasahara
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1967
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There's a few million dollars' worth of star power and a nickel's worth of plot in the lavish race-car melodrama Grand Prix....
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Izo Yamura
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1966
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Toshiro Mifune stars as a shipwrecked sailor who joins a Japanese priest in his search for the bones of Buddha in this...
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1966
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In this Japanese epic, set in the Muromachi era, the leader of a group of Kaga, refuses to help their master, a samurai,...
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1966
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In this martial arts film, a Japanese Samurai warrior returns to his home village after being gone for two years. He is...
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1966
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In this Japanese war movie, a rebellious war hero disobeys orders. For his punishment, the fellow is sent to the Chinese...
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1966
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A ronin seeking to redeem his wandering status by gaining entry into one of the great houses takes part in a plot to...
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Niino
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1965
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In this drama, a student takes up judo to earn his peers' respect. As he studies and practices under the expert tutelage of...
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1965
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1965
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In 1820, young Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) completes his medical education in Nagasaki and returns to his native Edo hoping...
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Kyojio Niide (Akahige)
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1965
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In this Japanese adventure, a man is kidnapped by the wealthy president of a wartime trading company. He is taken because he...
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Director
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1964
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Also released as Kamizake, the Japanese Attack Squadron is a docudrama concerning the suicide pilots of World War 2. An...
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1963
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In this Japanese adventure, a brave sailor--called Sinbad in the English language version Americans could relate to...
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Sukezaemon (aka Luzon, aka Sinbad)
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1963
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Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo,...
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Kingo Gondo
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1962
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Set in the mid-19th century when the disintegration of a rigid social structure was turning the once wealthy into paupers, or...
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Sanjuro Tsubaki
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1962
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This lively Japanese adventure is set in a construction camp where laborers are paid a pittance and nearly worked to death...
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1962
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This sweeping historical epic has sometimes been labelled the Gone with the Wind of Japan; at any rate, it's almost the same...
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Genba Tawaraboshi
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1962
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This award-winning drama by noted director Ismael RodrÃguez revolves around a festival of mayordomÃa in the provinces, or...
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Animas Trujano
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1961
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The attack on Pearl Harbor is presented from the Japanese point of view in this war drama. The story centers upon Natsuki,...
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Admiral Isoroku Yamaguchi Yamamoto
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1961
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Two war buddies help each other defend their businesses against gangsters in this crime drama. ~ Rovi...
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1961
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Mohei (Toshiro Mifune) is the samurai warrior who battles against the Portuguese arsenal of guns and cannons. With these...
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Mohei
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1961
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In this Japanese drama, a ten-year-old boy lives in the country with his sister and his widowed father, a Buddhist priest....
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1961
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Toshiro Mifune portrays a Samurai who finds himself in the middle of a feud-torn Japanese village. Neither side is...
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Sanjuro Kuwabatake
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1961
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In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old...
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Koichi Nishi
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1960
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In the Japanese detective saga/action film Ankokugai no Taiketsu (AKA Last Gunfight), the legendary Toshiro Mifune portrays...
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1960
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This well-wrought, visually stunning tale from Japanese mythology is directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and relates the adventures...
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Prince Yamato Takeru
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1959
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1959
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In this lively Japanese samurai epic, a brave 16th-century fighter challenges an evil warrior clan after he falls in love...
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1959
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Gen. Rokurota Makabe
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1958
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Tough and ready Mitsu, the rickshaw man, goes in for anything rough and tumble. His life changes, however, when he crosses...
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Muhomatsu
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1958
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Isusu Yamada plays a pretty Japanese tea seller who befriends widowed laborer Toshiro Mifune. Before either party knows what...
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1958
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Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean...
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Taketoki Washizu
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1957
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Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths from Imperial Russia to his...
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Sutekichi, the thief
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1957
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Samurai 3: Duel At Ganryu Island is the final movie in director Hiroshi Inagacki's trilogy following a samurai played by...
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Musashi Miyamoto
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1956
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Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple follows the adventures of the 17th-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (Toshiro Mifune), as...
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Musashi Miyamoto
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1955
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Musashi Miyamoto was the first entry in Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Ingaki's Samurai trilogy. Toshiro Mifune is Takezo, a...
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Takeso/Miyamoto Musashi
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1955
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When an elderly, wealthy man decides that nuclear holocaust is eminent in his country, he decides to move his family to...
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Kiichi Nakajima
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1955
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Samurai Trilogy is a 303-minute videotape comprised of the three Samurai films masterminded by Japanese director...
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1954
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Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. The film...
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Kikuchiyo, would-be samurai
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1954
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1953
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Life of Oharu features Kinuyo Tanaka in the title role. Oharu is a middle-aged prostitute in 17th century Japan. As she prays...
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Katsunosuke
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1952
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A former soldier is branded an idiot because of his epileptic seizures caused by wartime experiences. He shows unbridled...
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Denkichi Akama
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1951
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This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a...
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Tajomaru, the Bandit
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1951
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1950
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Released in Japan as Shubun, Scandal was the eleventh film directed by Akira Kurosawa (it was produced just prior to his...
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1950
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Akira Kurosawa directs the black-and-white 1949 film noir Nora Inu (released in the U.S. in 1963 as Stray Dog). In his third...
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Murakami, the Detective
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1949
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A dedicated army surgeon finds his once-bright future suddenly obscured when he contracts syphilis while performing a...
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Kyoji Fujisaki
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1949
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Originally titled Yoidore tenshi, Drunken Angel was director Akira Kurosawa's first "auteur" project. "I finally discovered...
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Matsunaga
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1948
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