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1	Shogun (1980) more movies like this directed by Jerry London featuring Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Shimada, Frankie Sakai, Alan Badel Based on the epic novel by James Clavell, Shogun originated as an epic five-part television miniseries, filmed on location in Japan. Richard Chamberlain stars as John Blackthorne, a 17th century British sea pilot in charge of a Dutch vessel. Shipwrecked off the coast of Japan, Blackthorne is in danger of being executed by the suspicious, reclusive ... see all copies from $3.89! new only from $65.98!
2	Seven Samurai (1954) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Kato, Ko (Isao) Kimura 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 to defend their terrorized village from bandits. ... see all copies from $3.15! new only from $14.99!
3	1941 (1979) more movies like this directed by Steven Spielberg featuring Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee, Nancy Allen It's December of 1941, and the people of California are in varying states of unease, ranging from a sincere desire to defend the country to virtual blind panic in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Thus begin several story threads that comprise the "plot" of this strange period comedy, a sort of satirical disaster movie, from Steven ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.89!
4	Rashomon (1951) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a peasant taking refuge from a downpour beneath a ruined gate in 12th-century Japan. The priest and the woodcutter, each looking stricken, discuss the trial of a notorious bandit for rape and murder. As the retelling of the trial ... see all copies from $2.92! new only from $29.90!
5	Grand Prix (1966) more movies like this directed by John Frankenheimer featuring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Toshiro Mifune, Brian Bedford 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. Among the participants in this annual cross-continent competition are characters played by James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford, and Antonio Sabato. Interested parties include Toshiro Mifune (his voice dubbed by Paul ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $16.90!
6	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 ... see all copies from $3.24! new only from $40.59!
7	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 see all copies from $4.45! new only from $16.65!
8	Hell in the Pacific (1968) more movies like this directed by John Boorman featuring Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune The entire cast of Hell in the Pacific consists of two high-powered international stars: Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. The time is World War II. A downed American marine pilot (Marvin), is stalked on a remote Pacific island by a Japanese navy officer (Mifune). The Japanese officer captures the American, but this situation is reversed when he ... see all copies from $2.68! new only from $6.99!
9	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 ... see all copies from $3.44! new only from $14.99!
10	The Hidden Fortress (1958) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Kamatari Fujiwara, Minoru Chiaki, Susumu Fujita Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (original Japanese title: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin) stars Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara as a pair of misfit soldiers. Running from the enemy after a disastrous defeat, the two soldiers fall in with general Toshiro Mifune, who is in search of a huge cache of gold. Mifune is also desirous of freeing ... see all copies from $2.94! new only from $2.94!
11 view cover	Throne of Blood (1957) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Takamaru Sasaki Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy. Familiar with Orson Welles's more faithful adaptation, Kurosawa chose to place a more personal stamp on his version by translating the events and characters to historical Japan. The equivalent of the tragic Scottish lord ... see all copies from $15.99! new only from $31.90!
12 view cover	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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.28!
13 view cover	Drunken Angel (1948) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto, Chieko Nakakita Originally titled Yoidore tenshi, Drunken Angel was director Akira Kurosawa's first "auteur" project. "I finally discovered myself," he explained later. "It was my picture: I was doing it and no one else." Takashi Shimura plays an alcoholic doctor, running a fleabitten clinic in the slums of Tokyo. Shimura tries to pull himself together long ... see all copies from $9.98! new only from $31.47!
14 view cover	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 ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $24.96!
15 view cover	Stray Dog (1949) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Ko (Isao) Kimura 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 film with Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune plays young police detective Murakami. One summer day on a crowded bus in Tokyo, his gun is stolen by a pickpocket. Rather than face the shame of reporting his gun missing, he chooses to go ... see all copies from $23.91! new only from $33.16!
16 view cover	Red Sun (1971) more movies like this directed by Terence Young featuring Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, Toshiro Mifune, Alain Delon, Capucine In what was billed as "The First East-Meets-West Western," Toshiro Mifune plays Kuroda, a samurai warrior who accompanies a Japanese diplomat to the United States. The diplomat has brought with him a golden, jewel-encrusted sword to present as a token of good will to the president, but as they travel by train through the west, they're ambushed by ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $47.77!
17 view cover	The Bad Sleep Well (1960) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune 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 revenge in the death of his father. Koichi is a private ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $24.96!
18 view cover	Picture Bride (1995) more movies like this directed by Kayo Hatta featuring Youki Kudoh, Akira Takayama, Tamlyn Tomita, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Toshiro Mifune The struggles of a young Japanese who leaves her home to marry an stranger are chronicled in this historical drama based on true stories. Picture brides were Japanese women contracted to marry Japanese sugar-cane laborers working in Hawaii. The couple would agree to marry based on the photos they sent to one another. Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $9.00!
19 view cover	Zatoichi vs. Yojimbo (1970) more movies like this directed by Kihachi Okamoto featuring Shintaro Katsu, Toshiro Mifune In Zatoichi vs. Yojimbo, one of many Japanese samurai films starring the blind swordsman Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu), he has to battle Yojimbo (Toshiro Mifune), the title character from Akira Kurosawa's famous film. At the beginning of the film, Zatoichi is planning on retiring, yet his village is besieged by outlaws; eventually he fights, then ... see all copies from $14.04! new only from $14.04!
20 view cover	Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) more movies like this directed by Hiroshi Inagaki featuring Toshiro Mifune Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple follows the adventures of the 17th-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (Toshiro Mifune), as he wanders through feudal Japan learning the ways of a samurai warrior. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide see all copies from $8.62! new only from $17.85!
21 view cover	Samurai 3: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) more movies like this directed by Hiroshi Inagaki featuring Toshiro Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiko Saga, Mariko Okada Samurai 3: Duel At Ganryu Island is the final movie in director Hiroshi Inagacki's trilogy following a samurai played by Toshiro Mifune. In this film, Mifune is challenged to a duel by his arch-rival (Koji Tsuruta). Before he fights the duel, Mifune is tested by a number of bandits and has to cope with the affections of two different women. ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $5.00!
22 view cover	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 ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $7.50!
23 view cover	Shadow of the Wolf (1992) more movies like this directed by Jacques Dorfmann featuring Lou Diamond Phillips, Toshiro Mifune, Jennifer Tilly, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Donald Sutherland Based on a best-selling novel, this drama, set amongst a remote Eskimo tribe in 1935, was -- at the time it was produced -- the most expensive Canadian motion picture ever made, with a budget of $31 million. Lou Diamond Phillips stars as Agaguk, the rebellious son of tribal leader Kroomak (Toshiro Mifune). The two men disagree strongly over the ... see all copies from $1.99!
24 view cover	Red Beard (1965) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kyoko Kagawa, Miyuki Kuwano In 1820, young Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) completes his medical education in Nagasaki and returns to his native Edo hoping both to marry the daughter of a wealthy man and to achieve affluence himself through his medical practice. He happens to visit the famed Koishikawa clinic for the indigent, which is run by the autocratic Dr. Kyojo Niide ... see all copies from $29.95! new only from $33.16!
25 view cover	Chushingura (1962) more movies like this directed by Hiroshi Inagaki featuring Koshiro Matsumoto, Yuzo Kayama, Chusha Ichikawa, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Tsukasa This sweeping historical epic has sometimes been labelled the Gone with the Wind of Japan; at any rate, it's almost the same length as Gone (the film was originally released in two parts). Chusha Ichikawa plays a powerful and ruthless feudal lord who battles virtuous young noble Yuzo Kayama. Ichikawa is temporarily victorious when he tricks Kayama ... see all copies from $5.79! new only from $24.87!

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