Highlighted works
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Rice farmers hire a band of samurai to defend them against marauding bandits in Akira Kurosawa’s influential epic, a touchstone for action movies ever since.
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Credited with bringing Japanese cinema to worldwide audiences, Akira Kurosawa’s breakthrough tells the story of a murder in the woods from four differing perspectives.
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Ozu’s final film colourfully and emotionally revisits the themes of Late Spring.
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This study of a terminally ill civil servant seeking meaning in his life is one of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s finest achievements.
Filmography
1971
AMAKARA MONOGATARI - ONNA NO ASA
cast member
1967
cast member
1966
cast member
1965
cast member
1965
cast member
1965
cast member
1964
cast member
1962
Yasuoka
1962
Yoshitaro Sakamoto
1961
Yanosuke Kitagawa
1961
Inokichi, Ushitora's brother
1960
cast member
1960
Matsukichi Sekine
1960
cast member
1960
Tomioka
1958
cast member
1956
Takagi
1956
policeman
1956
Sugiyama's ex-army friend
1955
Kibe
1955
cast member
1955
Seikichi Mukai
1955
cast member
1955
cast member
1954
Shichiroji, Kambei's friend
1954
Itaya
1952
Kimura
1952
Tazaburo Hishiya
1952
gang member
1950
the policeman