Toshirō Mifune
Toshirō Mifune (April 1, 1920 - December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor who is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema. He was born in Qingdao, China, but was raised in Japan. Mifune's career spanned over 50 years, during which he collaborated extensively with renowned director Akira Kurosawa, creating some of the most iconic films in Japanese cinema.
Mifune gained international recognition for his performances in Kurosawa's films, particularly in samurai films. He portrayed strong, dynamic, and often rebellious characters, bringing a raw intensity to his roles. Some of his notable collaborations with Kurosawa include "Rashomon" (1950), "Seven Samurai" (1954), "Yojimbo" (1961), and "The Hidden Fortress" (1958), which inspired George Lucas's "Star Wars."
Apart from his work with Kurosawa, Mifune appeared in numerous other films, showcasing his versatility as an actor. He played roles in various genres, including dramas, comedies, and war films. Some of his other notable films include "The Throne of Blood" (1957), "High and Low" (1963), and "Red Beard" (1965).
Mifune's charismatic presence, powerful performances, and ability to convey complex emotions made him an iconic figure in Japanese cinema. He received international recognition and awards for his contributions to the film industry, including several honors at the Venice Film Festival and a lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.22 |
| Birthday | 1920-04-01 |
| Place of Birth | Qingdao, China |
| Also Known As | Toshiroh Mifune, Mifune Toshirō, |
1958
The Hidden Fortress
8/633
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 g...
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The Hidden Fortress
1950
Rashomon
8.069/2274
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justi...
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Rashomon
1965
Red Beard
8.119/373
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...
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Red Beard
1957
Throne of Blood
7.9/884
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spi...
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Throne of Blood
1966
Grand Prix
7.2/195
The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a serie...
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Grand Prix
1970
Incident at Blood Pass
6.8/23
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of ch...
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Incident at Blood Pass
1949
Stray Dog
7.5/313
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...
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Stray Dog
1979
1941
5.8/630
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
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1941
1955
I Live in Fear
7.3/112
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to saf...
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I Live in Fear
1955
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
7.2/118
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for h...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1954
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
7.2/180
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1956
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
7.3/116
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He'...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1976
Midway
6.6/294
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
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Midway
1962
Sanjuro
7.9/627
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...
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Sanjuro
1960
The Bad Sleep Well
7.7/257
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled d...
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The Bad Sleep Well
1971
Red Sun
6.9/267
In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a valuable sword to the President of the United Stat...
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Red Sun
1951
The Idiot
7/113
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kame...
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The Idiot
1968
Hell in the Pacific
6.9/164
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in...
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Hell in the Pacific
1961
Yojimbo
8.1/1495
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the loca...
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Yojimbo
1957
The Lower Depths
7.089/129
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that tur...
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The Lower Depths
1948
Drunken Angel
7.594/276
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convi...
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Drunken Angel
1950
Scandal
6.9/88
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
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Scandal
1967
Samurai Rebellion
8.2/236
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to acce...
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Samurai Rebellion
1989
Death of a Tea Master
5.4/11
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
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Death of a Tea Master
1963
High and Low
8.3/952
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by...
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High and Low
1979
Winter Kills
5.813/48
The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the...
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Winter Kills
1970
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
6.7/63
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 merch...
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
1952
The Life of Oharu
7.8/174
In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
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The Life of Oharu
1958
The Rickshaw Man
7.206/34
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
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The Rickshaw Man
1949
The Quiet Duel
7.319/83
A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patien...
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The Quiet Duel
1962
Chûshingura
7.3/42
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their hon...
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Chûshingura
1969
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
6.795/22
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
1967
Japan's Longest Day
7.1/28
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies...
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Japan's Longest Day
1982
The Challenge
6/46
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between t...
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The Challenge
1992
Shadow of the Wolf
5.6/25
In the 1930s, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes perse...
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Shadow of the Wolf
1963
Samurai Pirate
5.5/11
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the t...
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Samurai Pirate
1969
Samurai Banners
7.4/18
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 co...
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Samurai Banners
1962
Doburoku no Tatsu
0/0
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1966
The Sword of Doom
7.7/226
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...
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The Sword of Doom
1978
The Fall of Ako Castle
6.6/21
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the reve...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
1963
Attack Squadron
6/2
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain...
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Attack Squadron
1987
Princess from the Moon
6.4/24
Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry open an alien cocoon to greet their new daughter.
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Princess from the Moon
1966
Adventure in Kigan Castle
5.7/5
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in...
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Adventure in Kigan Castle
1965
Samurai Assassin
7.3/54
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assass...
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Samurai Assassin
1958
Yaji and Kita on the Road
0/0
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wi...
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
1952
Vendetta of a Samurai
6.8/14
The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa Ak...
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Vendetta of a Samurai
1989
cf Girl
7/2
The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Takashi Kitajima.
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cf Girl
1969
Red Lion
6.4/25
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sa...
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Red Lion
1959
Desperado Outpost
6.1/10
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...
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Desperado Outpost
1975
Paper Tiger
5.7/10
A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped...
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Paper Tiger
1969
Battle of the Japan Sea
6/7
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
1947
Snow Trail
7.1/20
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojir...
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Snow Trail
1957
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
7/4
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disas...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1961
The Important Man
7.9/27
Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his vil...
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The Important Man
1981
The Bushido Blade
5.4/11
A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sen...
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The Bushido Blade
1981
Inchon
3.6/13
Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.
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Inchon
1958
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
5.3/6
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disas...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1965
Fort Graveyard
6.7/7
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His comm...
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Fort Graveyard
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
6.2/5
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of t...
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The Sands of Kurobe
1960
The Last Gunfight
6.1/9
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting bet...
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The Last Gunfight
1996
The Making of '1941'
6.6/5
A non-narrated documentary, told mainly in interviews with the filmmakers, on the making of the cult comedy classic, featuring outtakes, rare behind-t...
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The Making of '1941'
1959
Samurai Saga
6.7/16
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady....
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Samurai Saga
1964
Whirlwind
6.8/8
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post battle...
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Whirlwind
1981
Lowly Ronin
0/0
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV...
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Lowly Ronin
1982
Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood
0/0
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV...
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Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood
1959
The Three Treasures
5.4/11
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Empe...
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The Three Treasures
1950
Wedding Ring
6.6/10
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
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Wedding Ring
1961
Daredevil in the Castle
7.4/8
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyoto...
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Daredevil in the Castle
1958
All About Marriage
0/0
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
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All About Marriage
1978
Love and Faith
6.3/5
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an un...
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Love and Faith
1970
The Ambitious
7.25/12
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan...
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The Ambitious
1966
Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions
0/0
A short making of feature about the 1966 John Frankenheimer movie Grande Prix
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Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions
1956
Rebels on the High Sea
0/0
A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.
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Rebels on the High Sea
1966
The Mad Atlantic
0/0
Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they e...
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The Mad Atlantic
1956
Settlement of Love
0/0
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an annive...
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Settlement of Love
1957
A Man in the Storm
0/0
Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.
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A Man in the Storm
1957
A Dangerous Hero
0/0
A film by Hideo Suzuki.
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A Dangerous Hero
1960
The Masterless 47
0/0
Part one of The Masterless 47.
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The Masterless 47
1955
All is Well
0/0
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All is Well
1955
All is Well 2
0/0
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All is Well 2
1962
Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
5.8/2
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Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
1977
Proof of the Man
7.4/14
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a Ne...
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Proof of the Man
1958
A Holiday in Tokyo
0/0
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes o...
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A Holiday in Tokyo
1991
Journey of Honor
4.9/9
The son of a besieged Shogun in war-torn 17th century Japan travels to Spain to buy weaponry from the king.
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Journey of Honor
1978
Shogun's Samurai
7.1/37
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the sho...
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Shogun's Samurai
1950
Escape from Prison
0/0
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Escape from Prison
1969
Safari 5000
7.3/3
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enl...
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Safari 5000
1951
Sasaki Kojiro
5/3
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasak...
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Sasaki Kojiro
1983
Secret of the Forbidden Valley
0/0
A thrilling historical drama in which a ronin played plays an active role in redeeming the name of a man who was put to death for a crime, despite be...
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Secret of the Forbidden Valley
1968
Admiral Yamamoto
8.3/8
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet....
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Admiral Yamamoto
1956
A Wife's Heart
6.8/11
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for...
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A Wife's Heart
1966
Rise Against the Sword
6.5/8
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...
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Rise Against the Sword
1987
The Retired Samurai
0/0
Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coaxed out of retirement to save Shogun Iemitsu from...
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The Retired Samurai
1995
Deep River
7.2/4
A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.
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Deep River
1995
Picture Bride
6.3/23
Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and s...
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Picture Bride
1989
The Demon Comes in Spring
0/0
Island villagers find a young woman and young man swept ashore near their remote village in northeastern Japan. The two have tried to escape the girl'...
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The Demon Comes in Spring
1980
Port Arthur
7.455/11
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (...
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Port Arthur
1978
Shag
7/1
Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.
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Shag
1960
The Storm of the Pacific
5.6/8
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1...
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The Storm of the Pacific
1968
The Day the Sun Rose
7/1
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned cust...
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The Day the Sun Rose
1983
Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell
0/0
The "lowly ronin" meets a child who is being chased by men that killed his father before his eyes. Feeling indebted to the child for buying him dinner...
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Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell
1953
The Eagle of the Pacific
7.7/7
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war w...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
1983
Battle Anthem
7/2
The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.
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Battle Anthem
1959
The Big Boss
6.3/3
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping...
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The Big Boss
1985
No More God, No More Love
6/1
Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as he makes his way through a succession of dubious j...
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No More God, No More Love
1986
The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai
7/1
A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind numerous debts and his illegitimate child. Desperate t...
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The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai
1970
The Militarists
8/1
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The Militarists
1950
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
6.4/7
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1960
The Gambling Samurai
6.3/6
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's...
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The Gambling Samurai
1982
Domineering
5/4
When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.
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Domineering
1959
Saga of the Vagabonds
6.3/3
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting a...
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Saga of the Vagabonds
2016
Mifune: The Last Samurai
7.1/46
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
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Mifune: The Last Samurai
1987
Tora-san Goes North
8.7/3
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter,...
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Tora-san Goes North
1983
The Women of Osaka Castle
0/0
A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Yomiuri Television and the 30th...
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The Women of Osaka Castle
1984
Okita Soji: Swordsman of Fire
0/0
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Okita Soji: Swordsman of Fire
1951
The Life of a Horse Trader
7/3
The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...
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The Life of a Horse Trader
1983
Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl
0/0
When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he is her father and they start a farm as...
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Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl
1987
The Shatterer
0/0
Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by Sicilian mobsters. This was a co-production betwee...
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The Shatterer
1951
Beyond Love and Hate
0/0
A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his esca...
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Beyond Love and Hate
1952
Foghorn
0/0
A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.
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Foghorn
1953
The Last Embrace
0/0
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...
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The Last Embrace
1955
No Time for Tears
0/0
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic relations...
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No Time for Tears
1956
The Underworld
0/0
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuy...
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The Underworld
1960
Man Against Man
0/0
Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of drug dealers tries to force the pair to cooperate...
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Man Against Man
1965
The Retreat from Kiska
8.3/3
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhe...
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The Retreat from Kiska
1952
Sword for Hire
7/8
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and care...
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Sword for Hire
2000
Kurosawa
6.7/3
Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa
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Kurosawa
1983
Theater Of Life
0/0
Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel.
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Theater Of Life
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
8/1
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
1961
The Youth and His Amulet
0/0
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy'...
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The Youth and His Amulet
1984
The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel
6/2
In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines,...
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The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel
1978
Lord Mito
9.5/1
One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose travels around the nation are legendary has made it to...
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Lord Mito
1978
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
7/2
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
1952
Tokyo Sweetheart
7/3
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
1963
Legacy of the 500,000
7.1/5
During World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the bay of Manille. Former soldier Takeichi Matsuo is now...
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Legacy of the 500,000
1979
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
6.4/5
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known bein...
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1979
Onmitsu Doshin: The Edo Secret Police
5/2
A group of warriors decide to unite to help the oppressed masses. Disguised as ordinary people, they are dedicated to fighting evil till the end.
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Onmitsu Doshin: The Edo Secret Police
1982
The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn
0/0
After saving a young Lord from an assassination attempt the Lowly Ronin finds that he is now a wanted man! Accused of being a thief by those that trie...
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The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn
1983
Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass
0/0
Accused of being a spy for a rival clan by Nanbu Clan samurai who then attack him, the 'Lowly Ronin' barely escapes with his life after being shot. N...
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Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass
1991
Strawberry Road
10/1
Hisa Ishii and his brother Akira emigrate from Japan to the United States. They settle in rural California and start a strawberry farm, slowly integra...
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Strawberry Road
1957
Down Town
0/0
A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of h...
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Down Town
1961
The Masterless 47 – Part II
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The Masterless 47 – Part II
1952
The Man Who Came to Port
10/1
An Ishiro Honda film.
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The Man Who Came to Port
1957
Good Luck to These Two
6/1
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
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Good Luck to These Two
1977
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
8.8/2
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
1954
Seven Samurai
8.5/3819
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...
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Seven Samurai
1956
Scoundrel
0/0
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Scoundrel
1958
Theater of Life
0/0
1958 Theater of Life adaptation.
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Theater of Life
1952
Swift Current
0/0
The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction site in what is now Hanamaki City, Iwa...
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Swift Current
1953
My Wonderful Yellow Car
6/1
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My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953
Sunflower Girl
0/0
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...
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Sunflower Girl
1990
Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode
10/1
Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda clans. Leading up to them was the incredible life...
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Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode
1955
A Man Among Men
0/0
Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match i...
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A Man Among Men
1965
Sanshiro Sugata
7/7
Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His...
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Sanshiro Sugata
1947
These Foolish Times
0/0
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These Foolish Times
2020
Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
7.8/10
With his grizzled moustache and chiselled features, Charles Bronson is the embodiment of a slightly archaic, brooding and almost reactionary virility....
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Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
1970
The Walking Major
2/1
U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambling with U.S. servicemen in order to raise funds to...
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The Walking Major
1998
Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
0/0
John Boorman met Lee Marvin in London when the latter was making The Dirty Dozen and immediately they struck up a friendship. Shortly afterwards they...
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Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
1981
Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 1
3.5/1
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his fa...
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Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 1
1982
Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 2
0/0
Brings Shingo face to face against Yagyu Tajima, the Shogun’s fencing instructor in a match that could save a domain near Osaka. Meanwhile Shogun Yos...
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Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 2
1951
Pirates
0/0
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Pirates
1951
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
0/0
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer fest...
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Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1949
Jakoman and Tetsu
0/0
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one o...
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Jakoman and Tetsu
1954
The Black Fury
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A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequ...
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The Black Fury
1951
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
0/0
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
1956
Rainy Night Duel
0/0
Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo...
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Rainy Night Duel
1954
The Surf
0/0
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.
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The Surf
1951
Elegy
0/0
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his discipl...
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Elegy
1952
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
0/0
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
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