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Tatsuya Nakadai

Yūzō Kayama

Michiyo Aratama

Yōko Naitō

Toshirō Mifune

Tadao Nakamaru

Kei Satō

Kō Nishimura

Ichirō Nakatani

Kunie Tanaka

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.

Kihachi Okamoto

The Sword of Doom

Cody

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The Sword of Doom (1966) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

Shinobu Hashimoto

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Kinuyo Tanaka

Yoshiaki Hanayagi

Kyōko Kagawa

Eitarō Shindō

Ichirō Sugai

Bontarō Miake

Yōko Kozono

Chieko Naniwa

Kikue Mōri

Ken Mitsuda

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

Kenji Mizoguchi

Sansho the Bailiff

Cinematography Of Sansho the Bailiff (山椒大夫)

Intendendente Sansho (Sansho the bailiff / Sansho Dayu) 1954 trailer

Fuji Yahiro

Yoshikata Yoda

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Tsutomu Yamazaki

Kenichi Hagiwara

Jinpachi Nezu

Hideji Ōtaki

Daisuke Ryū

Masayuki Yui

Kaori Momoi

Mitsuko Baisho

Hideo Murota

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.

Akira Kurosawa

Kagemusha

Hampus

Joshua Prado

Breno Villa

Kagemusha (1980) Original Trailer [4K]

Masato Ide

Anne Wiazemsky

Walter Green

François Lafarge

Jean-Claude Guilbert

Philippe Asselin

Pierre Klossowski

Nathalie Joyaut

Marie-Claire Fremont

Jean-Joël Barbier

The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

Robert Bresson

Au Hasard Balthazar

Aram

Radmehr Shirzady

José Gama Guimaraes Netoo

"Au hasard Balthazar" | "Наудачу, Бальтазар", 1966 (Rialto Pictures trailer, english subs)

Donald Richie on Au Hasard Balthazar

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Reiko Dan

Miyuki Kuwano

Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Terumi Niki

Akemi Negishi

Yoshitaka Zushi

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

Red Beard

Sam Willwerth

Stevie Southworth

Adrian

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Red Beard / 赤ひげ (1965) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD]

Hideo Oguni

Ryūzō Kikushima

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Hiroyuki Sanada

Rie Miyazawa

Nenji Kobayashi

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Min Tanaka

Ren Osugi

Hiroshi Kanbe

Miki Ito

Erina Hashiguchi

Keiko Kishi

Samurai Trilogy (Yoji Yamada)

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?

Yoji Yamada

The Twilight Samurai

Ben 

The Twilight Samurai (2002) Original Trailer [FHD]

Yoshitaka Asama

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Takeshi Kitano

Aya Kokumai

Tetsu Watanabe

Masanobu Katsumura

Susumu Terajima

Tonbo Zushi

Ken'ichi Yajima

Eiji Minakata

Houka Kinoshita

Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.

Sonatine

Keith 

Connor

Dave K. 

Nihilism and violence in Sonatine | BFI video essay

Sonatine (1993) clip - on BFI Blu-ray from 29 June 2020 | BFI

Sonatine - Trailer

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Chikage Awashima

Ineko Arima

Sō Yamamura

Akira Ishihama

Kôji Nanbara

Seiji Miyaguchi

Tōru Abe

Masao Mishima

The Human Condition

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts and moves with his newlywed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.

Masaki Kobayashi

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

Khashayar 

The Human Condition 1: No Greater Love Original Trailer (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)

Zenzō Matsuyama

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Meiko Kaji

Toshio Kurosawa

Masaaki Daimon

Miyoko Akaza

Shinichi Uchida

Takeo Chii

Noboru Nakaya

Yoshiko Nakada

Kaoru Kusuda

Lady Snowblood Collection

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.

Toshiya Fujita

Lady Snowblood

Moldy Beef

Amogh Kulkarni

Lady Snowblood (1973) 修羅雪姫 - Movie Trailer - Far East Films

Norio Osada

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Shima Iwashita

Tetsurō Tamba

Yoshio Inaba

Hisashi Igawa

Toru Takeuchi

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

Harakiri

Zarq Khan

BruceB

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Minoru Chiaki

Kamatari Fujiwara

Misa Uehara

Susumu Fujita

Takashi Shimura

Ikio Sawamura

Kōji Mitsui

Takeo Oikawa

Yū Fujiki

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

The Hidden Fortress

Jake

Jonathan Costa

Lucas Bold

Hidden Fortress | 1958 Trailer - Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki

Steven Berkoff on The Hidden Fortress

Brian Trenchard-Smith on The Hidden Fortress

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Tatsuya Mihashi

Isao Kimura

Kenjirō Ishiyama

Takeshi Katō

Jun Tazaki

Nobuo Nakamura

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

High and Low

Jacob Hall

Bradley Lovelace

High and Low (1963) Original Trailer [4K]

'High and Low' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times

Eijirô Hisaita

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Chishū Ryū

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

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