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Directed by Teinosuke KinugasaOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Théâtre,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Films based on playsActors Kazuo Hasegawa,
Machiko Kyō,
Isao Yamagata,
Yatarō Kurokawa,
Koreya Senda,
Masao ShimizuRating70%
During a rebellion in 1159 the samurai Morito desires the lady-in-waiting Kesa but she's already married to Wataru. Morito decides to get rid of his rival. He makes Kesa explain to him how he can kill her husband while he sleeps. Kesa provides very precise instructions, yet when Morito follows through on her plan it is Kesa herself who gets killed. Morito understands that Kesa has sacrificed herself because she was determined to save Waturu's life and her honour., 2h4
Directed by Kenji MizoguchiOrigin JaponGenres DramaThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts filmsActors Kinuyo Tanaka,
Kyōko Kagawa,
Eitarō Shindō,
Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎),
Ken Mitsuda,
Masahiko Tsugawa (津川 雅彦)Rating83%
Sansho the Bailiff is a jidai-geki, or historical film, set in the Heian period of feudal Japan. A virtuous governor is banished by a feudal lord to a far-off province. His wife and children are sent to live with her brother. Several years later, the wife, Tamaki (Kinuyo Tanaka), and children, Zushiō and Anju, journey to his exiled land, but are tricked on the journey by a treacherous priestess. The mother is sold into prostitution in Sado and the children are sold by slave traders to a manorial estate in which slaves are brutalized, working under horrific conditions and branded when they try to escape. The estate, protected under the Minister of the Right, is administered by the eponymous Sanshō (Eitarō Shindō), a bailiff (or steward). Sanshō's son Tarō (Akitake Kōno), the second-in-charge, is a much more humane master, and he convinces the two they must survive in the manor before they can escape to find their father., 1h42
Directed by Kenji MizoguchiOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts filmsActors Kazuo Hasegawa,
Kyōko Kagawa,
Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎),
Eitarō Shindō,
Eitarō Ozawa,
Yōko MinamidaRating79%
Ishun (Shindo) is a wealthy but miserly scroll-maker in Kyoto, especially regarding his younger wife Osan (Kagawa), who was from an impoverished family, and married Ishun for money., 2h15
Directed by Masaki KobayashiOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Action,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Films about suicide,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Tatsuya Nakadai,
Rentarō Mikuni,
Shima Iwashita,
Kei Satō,
Hisashi Igawa,
Yoshio InabaRating85%
Edo, 1630. Tsugumo Hanshirō arrives at the estate of the Ii clan and says that he wishes to commit seppuku within the courtyard of the palace. To deter him Saitō Kageyu (Rentarō Mikuni), the Daimyo's senior counselor, tells Hanshirō the story of another rōnin, Chijiiwa Motome – formerly of the same clan as Hanshirō., 2h46
Directed by Kunio WatanabeOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Kazuo Hasegawa,
Shintarō Katsu,
Ichikawa Raizō VIII,
Kōji Tsuruta,
Machiko Kyō,
Fujiko YamamotoRating71%
Ce film raconte l'histoire vraie d'un groupe de samouraïs qui sont devenus rōnin (samouraïs sans chef) après que leur daimyō (seigneur féodal) Asano Naganori ait été contraint de commettre un seppuku (suicide rituel) pour avoir agressé un fonctionnaire de la cour, Kira Yoshinaka, qui l'avait insulté. Après avoir soigneusement préparé leur plan pendant plus d'un an, ils exécutent un assaut audacieux sur le domaine de leur ennemi juré et exigent leur vengeance, sachant qu'ils seraient eux-mêmes forcés de partager le sort de leur Seigneur pour expier leur crime., 2h14
Directed by Keishi ŌtomoOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
War,
Fantasy,
Action,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Takeru Satoh,
Emi Takei,
Teruyuki Kagawa,
Yu Aoi,
Go Ayano,
Yōsuke EguchiRating74%
As the Imperialist forces celebrated their victory in the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, the participant Hitokiri Battōsai walks away from the battlefield, abandoning his sword. But, the Battōsai's old katana is not left alone. It is claimed by one of the fallen, Udo Jin-e., 2h42
Directed by Akira KurosawaOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Action,
HistoricalThemes Films about families,
Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Théâtre,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Political films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on works by William Shakespeare,
Films about royaltyActors Tatsuya Nakadai,
Akira Terao,
Jinpachi Nezu,
Mieko Harada,
Hisashi Igawa,
Kenji KodamaRating81%
Hidetora Ichimonji, a powerful warlord, experiences a dream reminding him that he's showing his age and decides to divide his kingdom among his three sons: Taro, Jiro, and Saburo. Taro, the eldest, will receive the prestigious First Castle and become leader of the Ichimonji clan, while Jiro and Saburo will be given the Second and Third Castles. Hidetora will retain the title of Great Lord and Jiro and Saburo are to support Taro. , 1h44
Directed by Haruki KadokawaGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Masahiko Tsugawa (津川 雅彦),
Atsuko Asano,
Hironobu Nomura,
Masatō Ibu,
Kyōko Kishida,
Hideo MurotaRating67%
Set in feudal Japan, the daimyo Kagetora (Enoki) must protect his lands and his people from the ambitions of the warlord Takeda (Tsugawa)., 2h34
Directed by Edward ZwickOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Tom Cruise,
Timothy Spall,
Ken Watanabe,
Chad Lindberg,
Tony Goldwyn,
Hiroyuki SanadaRating77%
In 1876, U.S. Army captain Civil War veteran Nathan Algren is traumatized by his participation in atrocities during the Indian Wars, and has become an embittered alcoholic. Algren is approached by his former commanding officer, Colonel Bagley, on behalf of Japanese businessman Omura, who wishes to hire distinguished U.S. soldiers to train the Imperial Japanese Army to suppress a samurai rebellion, led by Katsumoto Moritsugu. In exchange, Japan would ratify a lucrative trade agreement that would grant the U.S. exclusive rights to supply arms to the Japanese government. Although Algren despises Bagley for having ordered atrocities during the Indian wars, he accepts the job for the money and sails to Japan. Most of the soldiers being trained are little more than inexperienced peasants and farmers.The training is interrupted when the samurai rebels attack a railroad owned by Omura; Bagley orders the regiment to mobilize, overruling Algren's objection that the soldiers are not ready. Algren is proved correct: during a battle in a foggy forest in Yoshino Province, the undisciplined and intimidated soldiers panic and are quickly routed by the samurai horsemen. Algren kills several samurai with his revolver and saber but is eventually knocked from his horse. Algren desperately fights using a spear tipped flagstaff with a flag of a white tiger until he collapses from complete exhaustion. As he is about to be vanquished, he kills his would-be executioner with the staff's spear tip. His ferocity and refusal to surrender, as well as the image of the white tiger on the flag he is fighting with, reminds Katsumoto of a recurring dream. As a result, Algren is spared and taken captive to the rebels' village in the mountains.