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Daredevil in the Castle (1961)
6.9/10
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Yuriko Hoshi, Yoshiko Kuga, Isuzu Yamada, Yosuke N...
Toshiro Mifune plays Mohei, a lone samurai wandering in despair after his family is wiped out. He arrives in Osaka and is taken in by the Toyotomi cl... Read more
Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)
7.7/10
Director: Toshiya Fujita
Starring: Meiko Kaji, Yoshio Harada, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Imprisoned and sentenced to hang for the murders she committed to avenge her family, Yuki is given a reprieve by the mysterious Kikui, a secret govern... Read more
Dororo (2007)
6.4/10
Director: Akihiko Shiota
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kou Shibasaki, Eita , Mieko Harada, Yoshio Harada, Nakai Kiic...
Based on a manga by anime grandmaster Osamu Tezuka ('Astroboy'), this fantasy actioner features a powerful samurai who makes a deal with 48 demons who... Read more
The Idiot (1951)
7.4/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Masayuki Mori, Toshiro Mifune, Setsuko Hara, Yoshiko Kuga, Takashi Shimura
Based on Dostoyevsky's classic novel of love and murder, adapted by Kurosawa himself, the story tells of Kameda, a former soldier whose wartime experi... Read more
The Hunted (1995)
6/10
Director: J F Lawton
Starring: Christopher Lambert, John Lone, Joan Chen, Yoshio Harada, Yoko Shimada
Christopher Lambert is a New York businessman in Japan who witnesses the savage murder of a mysterious woman by a group of ninja killers. Lambert real... Read more
Throne of Blood (1957)
8.1/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
Kurosawa's version of 'Macbeth' spares no effort in creating an atmosphere of obsessive madness and supernatural compulsion. The black and white contr... Read more
The Lower Depths (1957)
7.5/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Ganjiro Nakamada
Adapted from a play by Maxim Gorky and following the adventures of a boarding home's odd residents, especially the love triangle that develops between... Read more