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Directed by Sadatsugu MatsudaOrigin JaponGenres DramaThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Harue Akagi,
Chiyonosuke Azuma,
Utaemon Ichikawa,
Chiezō Kataoka,
Yoshi Katō,
Isamu Kosugi, 2h12
Directed by Kon IchikawaGenres Drama,
ActionThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Ken Takakura,
Kiichi Nakai,
Rie Miyazawa,
Kōji Ishizaka,
Kōichi Iwaki,
Ruriko AsaokaRating64%
The story of the Forty-seven Ronin has been depicted in many ways, with each version focusing the emphasis on different parts of the story—the rivalry of Lords Asano and Kira, Asano's assault on Kira, Asano's sentence of seppuku immediately afterward, and the revenge attack 21 months later against Kira by the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers. Oishi Kuranosuke, Asano's chamberlain and the head of the 47 samurai, is often the primary character, and his actions are often held up as the epitome of bushido, the honor code of the samurai., 2h
Directed by Fumihiko SoriOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Action,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Medical-themed films,
Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Yakuza films,
Films about disabilities,
La cécité,
Gangster filmsActors Takao Ōsawa,
Haruka Ayase,
Nakamura Shidō II,
Yōsuke Kubozuka,
Riki Takeuchi,
Tetta SugimotoRating65%
Ichi (市) is a goze (blind woman) who is travelling Japan in search of her mentor, who was the actual Zatoichi. , 1h25
Directed by Hideo GoshaOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
ActionThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Mikijirō Hira,
Kunie Tanaka,
Eijirō Tōno,
Takeshi Katō,
Gō Katō,
Shima IwashitaRating74%
Gennosuke is a rebel samurai on the run, having fled his clan after assassinating a counselor. The daughter of the counselor, Misa, and her fiance, Daizaburo, pursue Gennosuke along with other samurai from Gennosuke's clan despite Gennosuke's obvious superiority as a warrior. A series of flashbacks reveals that Gennosuke was manipulated into committing the treason by one of the clan's higher-ranking samurai, who led Gennosuke to believe that the counselor's death would result in modern reforms to the clan and in Gennosuke's promotion to a full-fledged retainer, instead of a lowly foot soldier. In fact, the ranking samurai simply wanted the counselor killed so that he could succeed to the position himself. He had used Gennosuke to do the "dirty work", and then abandoned Gennosuke to face the consequences of the crime., 1h35
Directed by Eiichi KudōGenres Drama,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Isao Natsuyagi,
Koji Nanbara,
Kō Nishimura,
Ryūtarō Ōtomo,
Kei Satō,
Kōtarō SatomiRating71%
This black and white film is set in November 1839, during the final decades of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate. The retired Shogun's youngest son, Lord Nariatsu, crosses into the neighboring Oshi fief, while he's hunting. Confronted by the Clan Lord Abe Masayori for trespassing in his lands of Oshi, Nariatsu kills him in a fit of pique and rides home. The Oshi fief retainers appeal to the Shogun's Council of Elders for justice. Not wishing to embarrass the Shogun's Tokugawa Clan, Chief Secretary Mizumo rewrites the event with Clan Lord Abe in the wrong and Lord Nariatsu defending himself. For this "attack," the Oshi fief is to be abolished at the end of the month, and the lands will be given to Lord Nariatsu as compensation., 1h51
Directed by J. F. LawtonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
ActionThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Christophe Lambert,
John Lone,
Joan Chen,
Yoshio Harada,
Yōko Shimada,
Masumi OkadaRating58%
Paul Racine (Christopher Lambert), a computer-chip executive from New York, is on one of his many business trips to Nagoya. He meets a beautiful woman named Kirina (Joan Chen) in the hotel lounge, and ends up having a one-night stand with her. When he attempts to further the relationship, Kirina implies that she has no future and thanks him for a wonderful night of pleasure and love. Dejected and somewhat confused, Paul reluctantly leaves her to be alone as she requests., 2h8
Directed by Masaki KobayashiOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Action,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Toshiro Mifune,
Yōko Tsukasa,
Isao Yamagata,
Jun Hamamura,
Tatsuya Nakadai,
Gō KatōRating82%
In the Edo period of Japan, Isaburo Sasahara (Toshiro Mifune) is a vassal of the daimyo of the Aisu clan. Sasahara is the most skilled swordsman in the land, whose only rival in ability is his good friend Tatewaki Asano (Tatsuya Nakadai). Isaburo is in a loveless marriage with a shrew of a woman. One day one of the daimyo's advisors orders Isaburo's elder son Yogoro (Go Kato) to marry the daimyo's ex-concubine, Ichi (Yoko Tsukasa), even though she is the mother to one of the daimyo's sons. With much trepidation, the family agrees. In time, Ichi and Yogoro find love and happiness in the marriage and a daughter Tomi is born., 3h
Directed by Akira Kurosawa,
Ishirō HondaOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Children's filmsActors Tatsuya Nakadai,
Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Jinpachi Nezu,
Hideji Ōtaki,
Masayuki Yui,
Kaori MomoiRating78%
Lord Shingen Takeda meets with his brother Nobukado, and a thief whom the latter met by chance and spared from crucifixion. Nobukado believes the thief's uncanny resemblance to Shingen would prove useful. The brothers then agree that he would prove useful as a double, and they decide to use the thief as a kagemusha., 2h3
Directed by Tadashi ImaiOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Action,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Kinnosuke Nakamura,
Masayuki Mori,
Eijirō Tōno,
Kyōko Kishida,
Yoshiko Mita,
Takeshi KatōRating73%
The story covers seven generations of a family., 2h9
Directed by Yōji YamadaOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Action,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Hiroyuki Sanada,
Rie Miyazawa,
Nenji Kobayashi,
Ren Osugi,
Mitsuru Fukikoshi,
Miki HiranoRating80%
At the start of the film, the main character, Iguchi Seibei, becomes a widower when his wife succumbs to tuberculosis. His wife receives a grand funeral, more than what a low-ranking samurai such as Seibei could afford. Seibei works in the grain warehouse, accounting for stores inventory for the samurai clan. His samurai colleagues mock him behind his back with the nickname Tasogare (Twilight). When evening approaches, Seibei rushes home to look after his senile elderly mother and two young daughters, Kayano and Ito, instead of bonding with his supervisor and other samurai colleagues over customary nights of dinner, geisha entertainment, and sake drinking. Even though he is a samurai, Seibei neglects his appearance, failing to bathe and being shabbily dressed. The well-being of his young daughters and medicine for his mother take priority over new clothes or the monthly bath fee and his daughters say they are both happy, even without a mother.