Toshirô Mifune

Takashi Shimura

Ken Ogata

Katsuo Nakamura

Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?—

Samurai Banners

Samurai Banners (1969)

Richard Chamberlain

John Rhys-Davies

Orson Welles

In the seventeenth century, a Dutch ship sails the Pacific from the Americas in order to escape the Spanish. Pilot-Major John Blackthorne (Richard Chamberlain) is the pilot of the ship and the first to realize the possibilities of Japan. Japan is a feudal society which has a strong presence of the Portugese. A struggle is in the final stages for who will be the Shogun, the leader who, under the Emperor, governs the land. Lord Yoshi Toranaga (Toshirô Mifune) sees in Blackthorn things he can use to at least survive the struggle to come, and if both play their hands correctly, become Shogun.—John Vogel

Shogun

Shogun (1980)

Ayako Wakao

Shigeru Kôyama

Minori Terada

With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking enforcer, but Yojimbo is both a spy for the shogunate, trying to find the gold, and in love with the merchant's unwilling mistress, Umeno. Ichi hires on as the merchant's masseur and buys Umeno's freedom with his employer's own money. This embarrasses Yojimbo who withdraws from a pact with Ichi to stir up trouble between father and son and their gangs. As the two sides fight, Ichi finds the gold and sets up a final set of confrontations.—

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)

Akira Kubo

Kumi Mizuno

A young lord attempts to combat the corruption endemic to the Shogunate bureaucracy, only to be placed in an impossible conflict of duties. He refuses to pay the "customary" bribe expected by a Chancellor sent from the Shogunate to teach him the etiquette for receiving envoys from the Emperor. In revenge, the Chancellor goads the lord into drawing his sword when the envoys are present, a crime punishable by death. The young lord is forced to commit ritual suicide for this crime. His vassals are ordered to turn over their lords estate for confiscation, forbidden to take revenge for their lords death, then disbanded as a clan. To obey the Shogun, the lords former samurai must follow those orders, but to be loyal to oaths they swore to their lord and have justice, they must avenge him. This conflict of obligations is the primary dilemma in Japanese society, which is why this story is considered their national epic. The story is richly woven and the film worth seeing for the gorgeous art works, buildings, and costumes of 18th century Japan alone.

Chushingura

Chushingura (1962)

Jennifer Tilly

Donald Sutherland

Lou Diamond Phillips

In the 1930's, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northen Quebec.—Steve Richer

Shadow of the Wolf

Shadow of the Wolf (1992)

Hidetaka Yoshioka

Keiko Takeshita

Takashi Sasano

Tora-san, the näive and romantic peddler, returns once more to his home in Hokkaido where, as usual, he falls in love with a lovely young lady. The girl this time is Rinko Ueno, who has come home in an attempt to repair her relationship with her gruff veterinarian father, Junkichi 'Jun' Ueno. Tora-san gets caught up in the entanglements not only between Rinko and her father but between Dr. Ueno and Etsuko, a restauranteur with amorous plans for the ornery veterinarian.—Jim Beaver

Tora-san Goes North

Tora-san Goes North (1987)

Eiji Okuda

Shinsuke Ashida

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Years after the death of legendary tea master Sen no Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's final days. Honkakubo communes with his memories of Rikyu and discusses his philosophy with other disciples in an effort to understand Rikyu's final split from his longtime patron, the warlord Hideyoshi Toyotomi. Between dreams, flashbacks, and visions, Honkakubo comes to a greater understanding of the unique path that Rikyu tread through one of Japan's most violent yet culturally-robust eras.—David A. Conrad (www.davidconradauthor.com)

Death of a Tea Master

Death of a Tea Master (1989)

Rick Jason

Mariko Okada

Robert Earl Jones

Jonny Hayward, a black American, travels to Japan, but is murdered there. Detective Munusue is one of the team of detectives investigating the killing. Munusue begins to suspect that rising fashion designer Kyoko Yasugi may have either information or actual involvement in the murder. When Yasugi's son Kyohei flees to America after a hit-and-run killing, Detective Munusue goes to New York and teams up uncomfortably with NYPD detective Ken Shuftan to find Kyohei and to get information from Jonny Hayward's father, who was stationed in Japan after the war. Munusue, whose father was beaten to death by American G.I.s when the detective was a boy, must confront his own vengeful antagonism to former U.S. soldiers in order to solve the case.—Jim Beaver

Proof of the Man

Proof of the Man (1977)

Mickey Curtis

Sachio Sakai

Yôsuke Natsuki

When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother's killer. The command is wiped out by Chinese forces and Okubo escapes and joins a tribe of bandits.—Jim Beaver

Dokuritsu gurentai

Dokuritsu gurentai (1959)

Seiji Miyaguchi

Yoshio Inaba

Yoshio Tsuchiya

In the turn of the Twentieth Century, the rickshaw driver Matsugoro "Matsu" is a happy man and a troublemaker well-known by everyone in his village. One day, Matsu sees an injured boy, Toshio, and brings him home. His mother Yoshiko Yoshioka asks Matsuo to take the boy to the doctor and then her husband Capt. Kotaro Yoshioka asks her to reward Matsu. However the rickshaw man refuses the money and becomes a friend of the family. When Kotaro unexpectedly dies, Matsuo helps Yoshiko to raise her son. Soon he falls in love with her, but he does not dare to open his heart to Yoshiko since they belong to different social classes.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Rickshaw Man

The Rickshaw Man (1958)

Kyôko Kishida

A married couple of poor farmers has lost their only child, recently passed away. The woman Tayoshime (Ayako Wakaso) cries out loud to heaven. The father Taketori-no-Miyatsuko (Toshirô Mifune), goes into the forests and sees a strange-kind of electric storm. He finds, in the centre of the burnt land, a strange blue coccoon. It opens up and a small child, with piercingly blue eyes, appears.He takes the child (Miho Nakano) home, and his wife says it's their dead child, Kaya, and she names the new child Kaya as well. This new Kaya (Yasuko Sawaguchi) grows up faster than what humans usually do. She also has a diamond, a kind of star which sometimes speaks to her or shines. Kaya becomes a ravishing beauty, and is kept hidden at her home. Her parents are lucky at harvests, and they become wealthy, although they live still isolated in the countryside. However, she finds a female friend- and through diverse circumstances, Kaya meets three men, and each one of them falls in love with her: 1- Otomo-no-Dainagon or Minister of the Military (Kiichi Nakai), 2- Kuramochi-no-Miko or Minister of Culture (Koasa Shunputei) 3- Abe-no-Udaijin or Minister of Finance (Takatoshi Takeda). They insist on marrying her. Her parents are confused, because they think they cannot make her daughter marry in the traditional way, with an arranged marriage. As Kaya is not human, she can't be happy the human way. So they let her choose. However, she can't choose, and asks each possible suitor to give her a legendary thing. The ministers go away in pursuit of the three objects, leaving their ministerial obligations aside, and without asking the emperor permission to leave. That annoys the Emperor, who demands to see that Shining Princess (Princess Kaguya), as Kaya is now nicknamed, with a view to marry her as well. However, she refuses to see him, while she waits for the return of the three men.The Empress tells the Emperor to let her be, while the emperor's soldiers investigate Kaya and her family.Two of the ministers arrive back. They provide their objects to the emperor, but he discovers that they are false. One of them burns fast, when it was supposed to be not-flammable. The ministers had not got their gifts for Kaya, they had purchased them in the black market, so they are cheated and the tokens of love are fake. However, the third of the ministers arrives with the dragon token.This was what Kaya wanted from the beginning.However, Kaya is not happy. Her jewel shone and told her that she was from the Moon. Her spaceship had had an accident, and she was the only surviving passenger. Now she must return to her country. The winner minister tells her that he would live with her in the moon, but she tells him that he won't be able to breathe in her country. Kaya feels desperate, but she can't do anything. Her parents feel that she's being ungrateful, because they have provided for all her needs during all those years, and treated her as their true child.The emperor hears all about this: next full moon Kaya is going to be taken home. He issues a night curfew, and asks his soldiers to kill anyone or anything appearing at night around Kaya's home. However, that night, a huge spaceship arrives. It abducts Kaya, and neither her parents nor her lover can do anything to prevent it.

Princess from the Moon

Princess from the Moon (1987)

Tomokazu Miura

Hisaya Morishige

While extracting water from the Martian polar ice caps, ancient carvings are uncovered describing an alien spacecraft crashing into Jupiter, postponing plans to turn Jupiter into a second Sun.

Bye Bye Jupiter

Bye Bye Jupiter (1984)

Masayuki Mori

Minoru Chiaki

Kinji Kameda, a war veteran, was almost executed in a military process, that was until a last minute reprieve found him innocent of the charge. The resulting turmoil, spent in a VA hospital, led to him suffering mentally, he now clinically deemed an idiot. The military having declared him legally dead in the ensuing time makes him open to abuse by anyone who wants to take advantage of him. While outwardly he seems an odd man to most, some can see below the surface to his wisdom and humanity. With nothing, he heads to Sapporo where his only contact to the outside world, Mr. Ono, will help him get back on his feet. En route, he befriends Denkichi Akama, a proverbial redneck who knows a certain darkness hangs over him. Akama went away to earn enough money to marry Taeko Nasu, a woman of ill-repute having lived her entire life the kept woman of older wealthy Mr. Tohata. Taeko is now an inconvenience in Tohata's life, and as such he has offered a substantial dowry to any man willing to take her off his hands. The man stepping forward is Mr. Ono's associate, Mutsuo Kayama, who truly loves Ono's daughter, Ayako, a straight-forward woman not one to suffer fools. Kayama vows that he will still marry Ayako if she makes the simple request to him not to marry Taeko. Upon his arrival in Sapporo, Kameda begins to fall in love with Ayako himself, while on their chance meeting, a deep emotional bond forms, which some construe as the truest of love, between Kameda and Taeko in each understanding the other's sadness. That bond does not sit well with Akama, who is more prone to violence than to peace and happiness. This situation becomes more complex as some try to do what is best for him/herself, while others want what is best for others, this potent mix which may lead to tragic consequences.—Huggo

The Idiot

The Idiot (1951)

After defeat at the Siege of Osaka several survivors attempt to deliver a young prince to safety.

Shikonmado - Dai tatsumaki

Shikonmado - Dai tatsumaki (1964)

Nobuko Otowa

Junji Masuda

Kinuyo Tanaka

Noriko Kuki is married to Michio Kuki, who is bedridden with illness. Though she loves her husband, Noriko is unhappy with the loss of intimacy in their lives. She discovers she is attracted to Takeshi Ema, her husband's doctor and that he feels the same way about her. Dr. Ema is lonely, and Noriko falls increasingly in love with the handsome, athletic doctor. The possibility of an affair arises, but Michio begins to suspect their relationship. Love, passion, and duty become more and more entangled until Michio rises from his sickbed and does something to force the issue.—Jim Beaver

Wedding Ring

Wedding Ring (1950)

Jun Tazaki

Toshio Kurosawa

Akiko Wakabayashi

Liberated from a slave auction, Osami joins with priest Ensai on a quest to find and deliver relics of the Buddha to Osami's brother in the Middle East for transport to Japan. They join with a camel caravan crossing the vast western desert, then are captured by a tyrant king. The king, who has lost his belief in the goodness of man, allows Osami the chance to complete the delivery of the relics to his brother on the promise that Osami return within three days to suffer burning at the stake. If Osami does not return in time, the innocent Ensai will die in his stead.—Jim Beaver

Kiganjô no bôken

Kiganjô no bôken (1966)

Kei Satô

Eitarô Ozawa

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.

Nippon no Don: Yabohen

Nippon no Don: Yabohen (1977)

Shigeru Matsumoto

Kan Takami

In 1944, in WWII, Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki cuts his finger with the scalpel during a surgery in a field hospital and is infected by spirochete from his patient Susumu Nakada. After the blood test, he realizes that he has contracted syphilis, but he does not have the necessary medicine to treat the disease. He advises Nakada to seek medical treatment for his disease. In 1946, after the war, he breaks off his six years engagement with his beloved fiancée Misao Matsumoto but he does not tell the truth but lets her go and find another man to get married. The hopeless apprentice, nurse Rui Minegishi, witnesses Kioji injecting Salvarsan to treat his syphilis, and first she misunderstands why the doctor is sick. Later, after discovering the truth about his disease, she changes her behavior and becomes the confident listener of the doctor's inner feelings. When Kyoji accidentally meets Nakada in the police station of his town and finds that his wife is pregnant, he warns the reckless man about the risk of his lack of responsibility to his wife and baby.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Quiet Duel

The Quiet Duel (1949)

Kyôko Kagawa

Mohei is a wandering swordsman. He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him and comes to depend upon his courage and his battlefield skills. Those skills are sorely tested when Osaka Castle is besieged by the army of the opposing Tokugawa clan.—Jim Beaver

Daredevil in the Castle

Daredevil in the Castle (1961)

Keanu Reeves

Steven Spielberg

Martin Scorsese

A feature-length documentary about the life and films of legendary actor Toshiro Mifune, weaving together film clips, archival stills, and interviews with such luminaries as Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. Narrated by Keanu Reeves.

Mifune: The Last Samurai

Mifune: The Last Samurai (2015)

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