Toshirō Mifune
Birthday: 1920-04-01
Place of Birth: Qingdao, China
Biography: Toshirō Mifune (April 1, 1920 - December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor who is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema. He was born in Qingdao, China, but was raised in Japan. Mifune's career spanned over 50 years, during which he collaborated extensively with renowned director Akira Kurosawa, creating some of the most iconic films in Japanese cinema. Mifune gained international recognition for his performances in Kurosawa's films, particularly in samurai films. He portrayed strong, dynamic, and often rebellious characters, bringing a raw intensity to his roles. Some of his notable collaborations with Kurosawa include "Rashomon" (1950), "Seven Samurai" (1954), "Yojimbo" (1961), and "The Hidden Fortress" (1958), which inspired George Lucas's "Star Wars." Apart from his work with Kurosawa, Mifune appeared in numerous other films, showcasing his versatility as an actor. He played roles in various genres, including dramas, comedies, and war films. Some of his other notable films include "The Throne of Blood" (1957), "High and Low" (1963), and "Red Beard" (1965). Mifune's charismatic presence, powerful performances, and ability to convey complex emotions made him an iconic figure in Japanese cinema. He received international recognition and awards for his contributions to the film industry, including several honors at the Venice Film Festival and a lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
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Rashomon
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife....
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Throne of Blood
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
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Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
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Grand Prix
The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship....
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Incident at Blood Pass
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...
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Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded...
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1941
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads...
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I Live in Fear
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky...
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a ...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal...
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Midway
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a tu...
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Sanjuro
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
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The Bad Sleep Well
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within...
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Red Sun
In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a ...
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The Idiot
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a vo...
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Hell in the Pacific
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves...
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Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
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The Lower Depths
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...
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Drunken Angel
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculos...
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Scandal
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a pain...
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Samurai Rebellion
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...
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Death of a Tea Master
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the ...
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High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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Winter Kills
The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and de...
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s ...
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The Rickshaw Man
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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The Life of Oharu
In 17th century Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page si...
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The Quiet Duel
A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation....
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Em...
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Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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The Challenge
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole ...
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Shadow of the Wolf
In the 1930s, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe a...
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Samurai Pirate
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, ...
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Samurai Banners
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters th...
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The Sword of Doom
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells ...
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Attack Squadron
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes ...
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Princess from the Moon
Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry op...
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Adventure in Kigan Castle
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the grea...
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Samurai Assassin
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakura...
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious ...
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Vendetta of a Samurai
Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance....
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Red Lion
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo...
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Desperado Outpost
When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second ...
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Paper Tiger
A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. H...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japane...
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Snow Trail
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At ...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets wh...
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The Important Man
Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all...
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The Bushido Blade
A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is sto...
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Inchon
Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationshi...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets wh...
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Fort Graveyard
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the las...
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The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for th...
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The Last Gunfight
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city o...
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Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no...
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Whirlwind
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeat...
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Lowly Ronin
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro s...
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Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro s...
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The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc...
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Wedding Ring
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness....
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Daredevil in the Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...
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All About Marriage
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, e...
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Love and Faith
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan...
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The Ambitious
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...
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Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions
A short making of feature about the 1966 John Frankenheimer movie Grande Prix...
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The Mad Atlantic
Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. M...
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A Man in the Storm
Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a k...
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Settlement of Love
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four ...
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Proof of the Man
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of ...
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Holiday in Tokyo
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, s...
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Journey of Honor
The son of a besieged Shogun in war-torn 17th century Japan travels to Spain to buy weaponry from th...
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Shogun's Samurai
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers ...
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Safari 5000
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driv...
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Sasaki Kojiro
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Ota...
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Secret of the Forbidden Valley
A thrilling historical drama in which a ronin played plays an active role in redeeming the name of ...
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Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is ...
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A Wife's Heart
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close ...
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Rise Against the Sword
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight the...
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The Retired Samurai
Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coa...
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Deep River
A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India....
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Picture Bride
Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has...
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The Demon Comes in Spring
Island villagers find a young woman and young man swept ashore near their remote village in northeas...
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Port Arthur
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified position...
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Shag
Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ai...
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The Storm of the Pacific
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanes...
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The Day the Sun Rose
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which rava...
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Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell
The "lowly ronin" meets a child who is being chased by men that killed his father before his eyes. F...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grav...
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The Big Boss
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, e...
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No More God, No More Love
Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as ...
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The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai
A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind nume...
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The Gambling Samurai
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has be...
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Domineering
When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the p...
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Saga of the Vagabonds
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokur...
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Mifune: The Last Samurai
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most promi...
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Tora-san Goes North
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune)...
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The Women of Osaka Castle
A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary ...
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The Life of a Horse Trader
The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmo...
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Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl
When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then...
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The Shatterer
Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by ...
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Beyond Love and Hate
A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife...
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The Last Embrace
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subs...
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No Time for Tears
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named O...
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Foghorn
A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant....
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The Underworld
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantica...
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Man Against Man
Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of...
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The Retreat from Kiska
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When...
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Sword for Hire
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his l...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses ...
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The Youth and His Amulet
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god ...
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The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel
In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escape...
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Lord Mito
One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose trav...
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determ...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are ...
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Legacy of the 500,000
During World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the bay...
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous mo...
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Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass
Accused of being a spy for a rival clan by Nanbu Clan samurai who then attack him, the 'Lowly Ronin'...
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Onmitsu Doshin: The Edo Secret Police
A group of warriors decide to unite to help the oppressed masses. Disguised as ordinary people, they...
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The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn
After saving a young Lord from an assassination attempt the Lowly Ronin finds that he is now a wante...
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Strawberry Road
Hisa Ishii and his brother Akira emigrate from Japan to the United States. They settle in rural Cali...
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Down Town
A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a k...
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Good Luck to These Two
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents....
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking con...
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Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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Swift Current
The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam c...
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Sunflower Girl
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, ...
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Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode
Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda ...
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A Man Among Men
Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wr...
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Sanshiro Sugata
Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshi...
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The Walking Major
U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambli...
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Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 1
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to...
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Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 2
Brings Shingo face to face against Yagyu Tajima, the Shogun’s fencing instructor in a match that cou...
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Jakoman and Tetsu
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inha...
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Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was over...
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's weste...
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The Black Fury
A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for...
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Rainy Night Duel
Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Desp...
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The Surf
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But S...
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Elegy
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to ...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
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