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Kwaidan

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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Kagemusha

Kagemusha (1980) more movies like this

directed by Akira Kurosawa
featuring Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, Kota Yui, Shuji Otake

Just as many American studio-era directors found acclaim abroad that was denied them in their home country, by 1980 Akira Kurosawa's reputation outside Japan exceeded his esteem at home. As uncompromising as ever, he found considerable difficulty securing backing for his ambitious projects. Unsure he would be able to film it, the director, an ...

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Ran

Ran (1985) more movies like this

directed by Akira Kurosawa
featuring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada

Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally among his three sons. In his dotage, he falls prey to the false flattery of his treacherous sons (Akira Terao and ...

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The Sword of Doom

The Sword of Doom (1967) more movies like this

directed by Kihachi Okamoto
featuring Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Michiyo Aratama, Ichiro Nakaya

In this epic Japanese samurai adventure, a bloodthirsty young fighter (Tatsuya Nakadai) kills a man in competition and is pursued by the slain warrior's brother. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Yojimbo

Yojimbo (1961) more movies like this

directed by Akira Kurosawa
featuring Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai, Isuzu Yamada, Seizaburo Kawazu, Daisuke Kato, Hiroshi Tachikawa

Toshiro Mifune portrays a Samurai who finds himself in the middle of a feud-torn Japanese village. Neither side is particularly honorable, but Mifune is hungry and impoverished, so he agrees to work as bodyguard (or Yojimbo) for a silk merchant (Kamatari Fujiwara) against a sake merchant (Takashi Shimura). He then pretends to go to work for the ...

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Sanjuro

Sanjuro (1962) more movies like this

directed by Akira Kurosawa
featuring Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Reiko Dan, Takashi Shimura

Set in the mid-19th century when the disintegration of a rigid social structure was turning the once wealthy into paupers, or vice-versa, this kinetic drama by acclaimed Akira Kurosawa features the hero Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune), one of many samurai whose once traditional positions were fast disappearing. In this tale of false perceptions and truth ...

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High and Low

High and Low (1962) more movies like this

directed by Akira Kurosawa
featuring Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Nakadai

Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo, a wealthy industrialist. Gondo is contacted by a gang of kidnappers, who inform him that they've kidnapped his son. The crooks demand a huge ransom for the boy's return -- an amount so huge that it will utterly bankrupt ...

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Samurai Rebellion

Samurai Rebellion (1967) more movies like this

directed by Masaki Kobayashi
featuring Toshiro Mifune, Go Kato, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa

A father and son prepare to die for their beliefs in this historical drama set in 18th century Japan. While Isaburo Sasahara (Toshiro Mifune) has been loyal to Japan's feudal system all his life, his beliefs begin to change when the local rulers demand that his son Yogoro (Go Kato) give up his bride, who has bore a child that will come to power ...

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Harakiri

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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Goyokin

Goyokin (1969) more movies like this

directed by Hideo Gosha
featuring Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Isao Natsuyagi, Yoko Tsukasa

In this samurai movie, an evil warrior violates his samurai codes of ethics by stealing some gold to pay an unfair government tax and then murdering the fishermen who witnessed the robbery. His actions are derided by his brother-in-law. In anger, the samurai casts his sister's husband out of the family. The outcast then joins a Shogunate to get ...

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Okinawa Kessen (1971) more movies like this

directed by Kihachi Okamoto
featuring Keiju Kobayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yuzo Kayama, Mayumi Ozora

Samurai Assassin and Japan's Longest Day director Kihachi Okamoto offers a vivid dramatization of the bloodiest battle ever fought in the Pacific Theater with this combat film produced to portray the Japanese perspective on this landmark confrontation. The year is 1944, and when Allied forces descend on Okinawa the Japanese people become subject ...

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Zatoichi: The Festival of Fire (1970) more movies like this

directed by Kenji Misumi
featuring Shintaro Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai, Reiko Ohara, Masayuki Mori

Misumi Kenji's Zatoichi: The Festival of Fire finds the famous blind swordsman becoming mixed up with a blind but powerful gangster. The town is a brutal place where women and children are regularly available to the highest bidder. Zatoichi takes a fancy to two local women, and this causes him to earn the ire of both two local men - one of them a ...

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The Wicked City (1992) more movies like this

directed by Peter Mak, Yuen Woo Ping
featuring Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai, Tatsuya Nakadai

Peter Mak Tai-kit spins this exuberant, visually dense adaptation from the popular similarly named Japanese anime. The film is set in a world where shape-shifting alien creatures known as Raptors have infiltrated human society. To deal with this problem, Hong Kong has fashioned a secret government task force aptly known as the Anti-Raptor Bureau, ...

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