The Burmese Harp (1956) more movies like this

directed by Kon Ichikawa
featuring Shoji Yasui, Rentaro Mikuni, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tanie Kitabayashi, Yunosuke Ito

Set against the final days of World War II, The Burmese Harp portrays the experiences of a group of exhausted, war-scarred Japanese soldiers as they prepare to return to Japan. The film focuses on Shoji Yasui, a soldier known to his comrades for his harp playing, who fails to convince a resistant company to surrender and is presumed dead when a ...

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Harakiri (1963) more movies like this

directed by Masaki Kobayashi
featuring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsuro Tamba, Rentaro Mikuni, Yoshio Inaba

This well-regarded Japanese drama follows an aging samurai as he attempts to regain his family's honor. In 17th century Japan, a shift in the country's political structure has thrown the feudal Shogun system into disuse. Impoverished samurai wander the countryside, asking wealthy estate owners if they can commit hara-kiri, a grisly form of suicide ...

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Kwaidan (1964) more movies like this

directed by Masaki Kobayashi
featuring Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Keiko Kishi, Tetsuro Tamba, Tatsuya Nakadai, Katsuo Nakamura

Kwaidan is an impressively mounted anthology horror film based on four stories by Lafcadio Hearn, a Greek-born writer who began his career in the United States at the age of 19 and moved permanently to Japan in 1890 at the age of 40, where he eventually became a subject of the empire and took on the name Koizumi Yakuno. Hearn became a conduit of ...

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Vengeance Is Mine (1979) more movies like this

directed by Shohei Imamura
featuring Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni, Chocho Miyako, Mitsuko Baisho, Mayumi Ogawa

A gut-wrenching, violent psychological crime drama from start to finish, this award-winning film by noted Japanese director Shohei Imamura is based on a true story. Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is a murderous sociopath who kills two money lenders in a gory opening scene. Then flashbacks are interspersed with Enokizu's flight across Japan as his ...

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Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto (1955) more movies like this

directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
featuring Toshiro Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Akihiko Hirata, Rentaro Mikuni, Daisuke Kato, Kuroemon Onoe, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada

Musashi Miyamoto was the first entry in Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Ingaki's Samurai trilogy. Toshiro Mifune is Takezo, a good-for-nothing from the farming village of Miyamoto, who dreams of becoming a samurai in 17th century Japan. Over the course of the first part, Takezo evolves from being a man filled with rage and violence who is looked upon ...

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Zatoichi: The Outlaw (1967) more movies like this

directed by Satsuo Yamamoto
featuring Shintaro Katsu, Rentaro Mikuni, Akira Nishimura, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yuko Hamada

Shintaro Katsu once again plays the blind swordsman Ichi in this continuing series. The hero comes to the aid of peasants in a small town that is under the thumb of gangsters and corrupt government officials. The landowners are in cahoots with the mob, and it is up to Ichi to save the poor farmers and restore justice. Dan Pavlides, All Movie ...

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A Taxing Woman's Return (1989) more movies like this

directed by Juzo Itami
featuring Nobuko Miyamoto, Rentaro Mikuni, Masahiko Tsugawa, Tetsuro Tamba, Toru Masuoka

This comedy satire is the sequel to the third biggest box office draw in Japan during the 1987 season. Ryoko (Nobuko Miyamoto) is the diligent female tax collector who exposes a fake religious cult using their status to avoid paying their share of taxes. She sets out to collect the evidence that will prove the cult's culpability. Ryoko discovers ...

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Never Give Up (1978) more movies like this

directed by Junya Sato
featuring Ken Takakura, Ryoko Nakano, Isao Natsuki, Rentaro Mikuni

Ajisawa (Ken Takakura) is a mysterious warrior in a secret Japanese paramilitary group who, while on a training exercise in the woods, stumbles into a group of rural party-makers. In the ensuing conflict he kills everyone except one young teenaged boy. The boy was wounded in the conflict, but Ajisawa adopts him and nurses him back to health. A ...

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