Toshirō Mifune

biography:
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.

Sekigahara

overview: Blockbuster drama based on the novel Sekigahara by Ryotaro Shiba, a program dedicated to the 30th anniversary of TBS. A total of 120 actors, 3,500 extras and about 500 horses recreated the largest battle in history, the Battle of Sekigahara, in which 200,000 warriors clashed from east and west. The battle, which can be called a turning point in the history of Japan, depicts the conflict, love and hate between people on a grand scale and with a great cast.

character: Sakon Shima

original_name: 関ヶ原

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Shōgun

overview: An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.

character: Lord Yoshi Toranaga

original_name: Shōgun

Tuesday Suspense Theater

overview:
"Tuesday Suspense Theater" was broadcast every Tuesday from 21:00 to 22:54 ( JST ) on the Nippon Television network for 24 years from September 29 , 1981 to September 27, 2005. It was a two-hour drama slot.

As a general rule, suspense dramas with one complete episode (very rarely, two parts) were broadcast every week from 21:00 to 22:54 ( JST ). It is a broadcast frame. Some episodes also aired horror, historical dramas, and special effects dramas.

original_name: 火曜サスペンス劇場

V.I.P. Schaukel

overview: V.I.P.-Schaukel is a 45 minute documentary-family-news-talk show starring Margret Dünser as Host. The series premiered on Sun May 09, 1971 on ZDF and Folge 37 - Final Show last aired on Fri May 09, 1980.

original_name: V.I.P. Schaukel

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The 47 Ronins of Ako

overview: Set in the eighteenth century, during the reign of the fifth Tokugawa shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. Akō-han is demolished by the Tokugawa shogunate. Hotta Hayato is a ronin who is living a desperate life because of his sad past. But one day he starts working for Chisaka Takafusa, the Chief retainer of the Uesugi clan. The Uesugi clan and Chisaka are wary of Ōishi Kuranosuke and Ako Roshi's movements, so Chisaka orders Hotta to observe Ōishi Kuranosuke.

character: Tachibana Sakon

original_name: 赤穂浪士

Falcons of Edo

overview:
In the 1770's, the shrewdest man of the age, Tanuma Okitsugu, had abused his political power, and the corruption of government officials and moral decay of the public were prevalent.  At that time, there was a box for complaints made by the general public. It was called "Meyasubako" and was placed at the front gate of the central government's Supreme Court. The appeals went directly to the shogun who assigned the “Otakagumi” (Falconers Unit) to investigate. Led by Uchiyama Kanbei (samurai superstar Mifune Toshiro) they fought injustice and helped the oppressed.  Not only were they skilled swordsmen, but their trained falcons would swoop down on enemy troops, especially those using firearms. Superb fighting throughout with Mifune at the forefront in one of his finest roles.

As the vile Tanuma Okitsugu continues to abuse his political power, more and more clashes with the Falcons of Edo, who stand for justice and morality are bound to occur, leading to a conclusion the likes of which has never been seen. Putting his life on the line, time and time again, Uchiyama Kanbei fights to prevent Tanuma from destroying the falconers’ group and take him to task for his vicious treatment of the Japanese people. Aided by his trusty Vice-Chief Ichiyanagi Kakuto, he wades bravely into battle in a land where “Take no prisoners” is the mantra. Brilliant fighting and a clever story line create a highly charged action series that brings out the best in samurai cinema. Can the Falcons of Edo prevail and save Japan from being crushed underfoot!

character: Kanbei Uchiyama

original_name: 江戸の鷹 御用部屋犯科帖

Epic Chushingura

overview:
Daichūshingura is a television dramatization of the events of the Forty-seven Ronin. The first episode aired on January 5, 1971, and the 52nd and final episode appeared on December 28 of the same year. The NET network broadcast it in the Tuesday evening 9:00–9:56 prime-time slot in Japan.

The series featured an all-star cast. The central actor was Toshiro Mifune, who portrayed Ōishi Kuranosuke; Yoko Tsukasa his wife; and kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorō VII their son Chikara.

character: Oishi Kuranosuke

original_name: 大忠臣蔵

Ronin of the Wastelands

overview: Continuing the tradition of the Yojimbo movies, Mifune Toshiro stars as Toge Kujuro, a wandering ronin searching for his own fame and happiness. With a sense of justice, he travels the countryside, with his motley collection of outcasts - a pistol-carrying ronin, a two-bit con artist and woman seeking revenge, following close behind, unwittingly righting wrongs and protecting the common man.

character: Kujuro Toge

original_name: 荒野の素浪人

Ronin in a Lawless Town

overview: A wildly unusual story set in the earliest days of the Meiji era. The story centers around a gathering place called The Mermaid Saloon, where scantily clad pearl divers put on a show while two residents of the inn upstairs...

character: Mr. Danna

original_name: 人魚亭異聞 無法街の素浪人

Burning Mountain River

overview: The three Amaba brothers are second-generation Japanese Americans, whose allegiances are torn by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Determined to show his loyalty to his adopted country, Isamu volunteers for the U.S. Army and is shipped off to fight in Europe. A second brother, studying in Japan at the outbreak of hostilities, is conscripted to fight against the Americans as a Japanese soldier. The third brother Kenji (Matsumoto) avoids conflict by enlisting as a military interpreter, in which capacity he witnesses the war crimes trials that followed Japan's defeat.

character: Otsuichi Amo

original_name: 山河燃ゆ

The Brave Man Says Little

overview: A four-episode TV drama commemorating the 30th anniversary of the start of television broadcasting, set in the automobile industry.

original_name: 勇者は語らず

Ronin of the Wastelands

job: Associate Producer

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Toshirō Mifune

biography:
Toshirō Mifune fue un prolífico y consagrado actor japonés.

Se le conoce sobre todo por sus papeles en las obras maestras de Hiroshi Inagaki (en el papel del mítico samurái Miyamoto Musashi) y en varias películas de Akira Kurosawa de los años 1950 y 1960 como Los siete samuráis y Rashomon.

Toshirō Mifune nació de padres japoneses metodistas en Tsingtao (transcripción del chino mandarín también ortografiada como «Qingdao»), en la provincia china de Shandong. Debido a su nacimiento en China, sus padres le dieron también un nombre en chino mandarín (Sanchuan Minlang) además de su nombre de nacimiento en japonés (Toshirō Mifune). Su padre Tokuzo, un hombre de negocios emigrado a China, lo familiarizó con la fotografía. Después de terminar la escuela cursó estudios de bachillerato en el Instituto de Port Arthur, y fue admitido en la Armada Imperial Japonesa cumpliendo con el servicio militar durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Estando en la Armada, sus conocimientos de fotografía fueron apreciados y fue destinado al reconocimiento aéreo. Terminada la guerra, Mifune trabajó para Toho films como asistente de cámara. Un amigo suyo envió entonces una fotografía suya a un casting de actores de cine, pero sin que él lo supiera. Mifune fue seleccionado y a pesar de no haber emprendido él mismo la candidatura aceptó el hacerse actor. Aprendió actuación en una improvisada escuela interna de arte dramático de Toho Films que surgió a raíz de una huelga de actores.

En 1947 Mifune se sometió a una prueba para nuevos actores, pero no fue admitido. No obstante, un director llamado Kajiro Yamamoto se fijó en él y lo recomendó a otro director, Senkichi Taniguchi, quien lo contrató para la que sería la primera película de Mifune, Shin Baka Jidai, que se rodó en ese mismo año. En 1949 conoce a Akira Kurosawa y traba una sólida amistad de mutua colaboración y proporciona a Mifune una rampa de despegue al éxito. Mifune fue el actor favorito del conocido director Akira Kurosawa. En efecto, a lo largo de su dilatada carrera, Mifune intervino en 16 películas de Akira Kurosawa, la mayoría de las cuales se convirtieron en clásicos del cine japonés. Famoso es el filme Los siete samuráis (1954) donde se aprecia toda la calidad interpretativa de Mifune y por el que se hizo conocido mundialmente. Sus prodigiosas actuaciones, con una fuerte prestancia interpretativa, dieron vida a personajes rígidos, duros y crudos de modales como samuráis itinerantes y ronin con una particular intensidad a la que a menudo matizaba con delicados toques de humor. Otra película famosa donde actuó fue Rashomon, donde interpretó a un asaltante involucrado en un asesinato.

A comienzos de los 60, Mifune y Kurosawa se alejan progresivamente y se evitan mutuamente por tres décadas. En 1963, Mifune funda su propia compañía productora, Mifune Geijutsu Gakuin (三船芸术学) Productions donde da impulso al cine japonés.

Fue el actor japonés más conocido en todo el mundo, galardonado en dos ocasiones con la Copa Volpi como mejor actor en el Festival de Cine de Venecia, en 1961 por Yojimbo y en 1965 por Barbarroja. Intervino en varias películas y producciones para la televisión estadounidense.

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Toshirō Mifune

biography:
Toshirō Mifune war ein japanischer Schauspieler, Filmproduzent und -regisseur. Er wirkte in 134 Filmen mit, erhielt dafür circa 60 Auszeichnungen und war auch international bekannt.

Mifune wuchs in der Küstenstadt Dalian im japanisch besetzten China auf. Sein Vater war Inhaber eines Fotogeschäfts, in dem Mifune bereits als Kind mithalf. 1940 wurde er in die Armee einberufen und diente in der Fliegertruppe, wo er Luftaufnahmen anfertigte.

Eigentlich auf der Suche nach einer Beschäftigung als Kameramann, erhielt er 1946 in Tokio einen Job in der Filmgesellschaft Tōhō. Seine erste Hauptrolle, einen Bankräuber, spielte er in Senkichi Taniguchis Ginrei no Hate (1947). Die Rolle des Negativhelden dominiert unter seinen frühen Filmen, so trat er als Gangster in Engel der Verlorenen (Yoidore Tenshi, 1948) und als Räuber in Rashomon – Das Lustwäldchen (Rashō-Mon, 1950) auf, ferner in dem Film Die verborgene Festung (1958) als zwielichtiger General Makabe. In sein dynamisches Spiel ließ Mifune auch humoristische Elemente einfließen.

Von 1948 bis 1965 verkörperte er die Hauptrollen in den meisten Filmen des Regisseurs Akira Kurosawa. Mit seiner Darstellung des Außenseiters unter den sieben Samurai in Kurosawas Die sieben Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai, 1954) erlangte Mifune weltweite Popularität. Er trat in Kurosawas Adaptionen westlicher Literatur als Dieb in Nachtasyl (Donzoko, 1957) und in der Macbeth-Rolle in Das Schloss im Spinnwebwald (Kumo-no-Su-Jō, 1957) sowie in Zwischen Himmel und Hölle (Tengoku to Jigoku, 1963) – der Verfilmung eines Kriminalromans von Ed McBain – auf.

Für seine Arbeit in den Filmen Yojimbo – Der Leibwächter (Yōjimbō, 1961) und Rotbart (Akahige, 1965) wurde er auf dem Filmfestival von Venedig mit der Coppa Volpi als bester Hauptdarsteller ausgezeichnet und erhielt daraufhin auch Rollenangebote in internationalen Produktionen. So spielte er unter anderem 1966 in John Frankenheimers Grand Prix einen japanischen Rennstallbesitzer, 1968 in John Boormans Die Hölle sind wir, in der französisch-italienischen Produktion Rivalen unter roter Sonne (Soleil rouge, 1971) und 1976 den Admiral Yamamoto in Jack Smights Schlacht um Midway. Seine Darstellung des Fürsten Toranaga in der US-amerikanischen Fernsehserie Shogun machte ihn in Deutschland einem weiteren Publikum bekannt. Mifune war der erste japanische Filmschauspieler, der sich als internationaler Star durchsetzen konnte.

1962 gründete er seine eigene Produktionsfirma „Mifune Productions“, und hatte 1963 mit Gojū-man-nin no Isan sein Regiedebüt. 1966 errichtete er eigene Studios in Tokio, die er 1981 um eine private Schauspielschule erweiterte. Aufgrund von Missmanagement musste die Schule aber drei Jahre später geschlossen werden.

Sein Sohn Shiro Mifune (* 1950) ist ebenfalls Schauspieler und Produzent, seine Tochter Mika ist ebenfalls Schauspielerin.

(Quelle: Wikipedia)

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Toshirô Mifune

biography: Toshirō Mifune (Qingdao, 1 de abril de 1920 — Tóquio, 24 de dezembro de 1997) foi um premiado ator japonês, nascido na China. Em 1954, 1955, 1956 estrelou a Trilogia: Musashi, baseado no romance de Hideji Hōjō, dirigido por Hiroshi Inagaki que venceu o Oscar de melhor filme estrangeiro na edição de 1955, representando o Japão. Como o bandido de Rashomon (1951), obra do mesmo diretor que ganhou o Oscar de melhor filme estrangeiro em 1951, foi reconhecido internacionalmente. Tornou-se popular graças aos papéis de samurai que representou sob a direção de Kurosawa, em filmes como "Os Sete Samurais" e "Yojimbo" (1960), pelo qual conquistou o prêmio de melhor ator no Festival de Veneza.

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biography: Toshirō Mifune (Tsingtao, Xina, 1 d'abril de 1920 - Tòquio, Japó, 24 de desembre de 1997) fou un actor i productor japonès. Considerat un dels millors actors de tots els temps, és conegut especialment pels seus papers en les obres mestres d'Akira Kurosawa i Hiroshi Inagaki des dels anys 50 fins als 60.

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三船敏郎

biography:
三船敏郎（1920年4月1日 - 1997年12月24日）は、日本映画史上最も偉大な俳優の一人として広く評価されている日本の俳優です。中国・青島で生まれましたが、日本で育ちました。彼の俳優人生は50年以上にわたり、その間に著名な映画監督・黒澤明と数多くの作品で協働し、日本映画を代表する数々の名作を生み出しました。

三船は、特に黒澤映画における演技、とりわけ時代劇での演技によって国際的な評価を得ました。力強く躍動的で、ときに反骨的な人物像を演じ、荒々しいまでの迫力と緊張感を役に吹き込みました。黒澤との代表的な作品には『羅生門』（1950年）、『七人の侍』（1954年）、『用心棒』（1961年）、『隠し砦の三悪人』（1958年）などがあります。『隠し砦の三悪人』は、ジョージ・ルーカスの『スター・ウォーズ』に影響を与えた作品としても知られています。

黒澤作品以外にも、三船は数多くの映画に出演し、俳優としての高い多様性を示しました。ドラマ、コメディ、戦争映画など、さまざまなジャンルで役を演じています。その他の代表作には『蜘蛛巣城』（1957年）、『天国と地獄』（1963年）、『赤ひげ』（1965年）などがあります。

カリスマ性あふれる存在感、圧倒的な演技力、そして複雑な感情を的確に表現する能力によって、三船は日本映画界を象徴する存在となりました。映画界への多大な貢献により国際的な評価と数々の賞を受け、ヴェネツィア国際映画祭での受賞や、米国アカデミー映画芸術科学アカデミーからの生涯功労賞などの栄誉にも輝いています。

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Toshirō Mifune

biography:
Toshirō Mifune (1er avril 1920 - 24 décembre 1997) était un acteur japonais largement considéré comme l'un des plus grands acteurs de l'histoire du cinéma japonais. Il est né à Qingdao, en Chine, mais a grandi au Japon. La carrière de Mifune s'étend sur plus de 50 ans, au cours desquels il a collaboré étroitement avec le célèbre réalisateur Akira Kurosawa, donnant naissance à certains des films les plus emblématiques du cinéma japonais.

Mifune a acquis une renommée internationale grâce à ses performances dans les films de Kurosawa, en particulier dans les films de samouraïs. Il incarnait des personnages forts, dynamiques et souvent rebelles, apportant une intensité brute à ses rôles. Parmi ses collaborations notables avec Kurosawa, on peut citer « Rashomon » (1950), « Les Sept Samouraïs » (1954), « Yojimbo » (1961) et « La Forteresse cachée » (1958), qui a inspiré « Star Wars » de George Lucas.

Outre son travail avec Kurosawa, Mifune a joué dans de nombreux autres films, démontrant ainsi sa polyvalence en tant qu'acteur. Il a interprété des rôles dans divers genres, notamment des drames, des comédies et des films de guerre. Parmi ses autres films notables, on peut citer « Le Trône de sang » (1957), « Haut et bas » (1963) et « Barbe rouge » (1965).

La présence charismatique de Mifune, ses interprétations puissantes et sa capacité à transmettre des émotions complexes ont fait de lui une figure emblématique du cinéma japonais. Il a reçu une reconnaissance internationale et de nombreuses récompenses pour sa contribution à l'industrie cinématographique, notamment plusieurs distinctions au Festival du film de Venise et un prix d'honneur décerné par l'Académie des arts et des sciences du cinéma.

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Toshirō Mifune

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Toshirō Mifune (1 aprile 1920 - 24 dicembre 1997) è stato un attore giapponese ampiamente considerato uno dei più grandi attori nella storia del cinema giapponese. Nacque a Qingdao, in Cina, ma fu cresciuto in Giappone. La carriera di Mifune si è estesa per oltre 50 anni, durante i quali ha collaborato ampiamente con il rinomato regista Akira Kurosawa, creando alcuni dei film più iconici del cinema giapponese.

Mifune ottenne riconoscimenti internazionali per le sue interpretazioni nei film di Kurosawa, in particolare nei film sui samurai. Ha interpretato personaggi forti, dinamici e spesso ribelli, portando un'intensità cruda ai suoi ruoli. Alcune delle sue collaborazioni più note con Kurosawa includono "Rashomon" (1950), "Seven Samurai" (1954), "Yojimbo" (1961) e "The Hidden Fortress" (1958), che ispirarono "Star Wars" di George Lucas.

Oltre al suo lavoro con Kurosawa, Mifune apparve in numerosi altri film, dimostrando la sua versatilità come attore. Interpretò ruoli in vari generi, tra cui drammi, commedie e film di guerra. Alcuni dei suoi altri film di rilievo includono "Il trono di sangue" (1957), "Alto e basso" (1963) e "Barba rossa" (1965).

La presenza carismatica di Mifune, le sue interpretazioni potenti e la capacità di trasmettere emozioni complesse lo resero una figura iconica del cinema giapponese. Ha ricevuto riconoscimenti e premi internazionali per i suoi contributi all'industria cinematografica, tra cui diversi riconoscimenti al Festival del Cinema di Venezia e un premio alla carriera dall'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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biography: Urodzony 1 kwietnia 1920 roku w Qingdao w Chinach japoński aktor, który stał się ikoną światowego kina. Toshirô Mifune zyskał sławę dzięki współpracy z reżyserem Akirą Kurosawą, występując w takich arcydziełach jak "Siedmiu samurajów" czy "Rashomon". Jego charyzma i wszechstronność pozwoliły mu stworzyć niezapomniane role, często portraying wojowników i buntowników. Wystąpił w ponad 150 filmach, zdobywając uznanie zarówno w Japonii, jak i na arenie międzynarodowej. Był wielokrotnie nagradzany, a jego talent pozostaje inspiracją dla kolejnych pokoleń aktorów. Mifune zmarł 24 grudnia 1997 roku, pozostawiając trwały ślad w historii kinematografii.

Toshiro Mifune

biography:
Kilala siya sa mga pelikulang "Rashomon", "Seven Samurai", "Throne of Blood", at "Yojimbo",  si Toshiro Mifune ay isang tanyag na aktor at prodyuser. Isinilang noong 1 Abril 1920 sa lungsod ng Seito (ngayon ay Qingdao) sa Tsina. Ang mga magulang niya ay mga misyonaryong Metodista. Noong 1947, una siyang sumabak sa pag-arte nang sinama siya sa listahan ng mga bagong diskubre ng Toho. Noong 1950, nagsimula ang kolaborasyon nila ni direktor Akira Kurosawa nang si Mifune ay pinili sa mga pelikula niya, na kung saan ang mga papel niya ay mga samurai o ronin na may kasungitan. Bukod sa mga pelikula nila ni Kurosawa, lalong lumawak ang kanyang katanyagan nang itinatag niya ang sariling kompanya na gumagawa ng pelikula at saka, mga papel niya sa mga pelikulang pangdaigdig.

Pumanaw noong bisperas ng Pasko (24 Disyembre) 1997 sa Mitaka Ward, Tokyo. Siya ay 77 anyos.

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Mifune Toshirō

title: The Hidden Fortress

overview: 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.

character: General Rokurota Makabe

original_title: 隠し砦の三悪人

title: Rashomon

overview: Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

character: Tajômaru

original_title: 羅生門

title: Throne of Blood

overview: 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 spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

character: Taketoki Washizu

original_title: 蜘蛛巣城

title: Red Beard

overview: 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.

title: Grand Prix

overview: 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 series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate's wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant who has previously won two world titles.

title: Incident at Blood Pass

overview: 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 characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the pass. When the Ronin's assignment becomes clear, to help the gang, he's ordered to kill the inn's residents, including a woman he's rescued from an abusive husband. He's reluctant to murder innocent people; then he learns that the gold shipment is a trap and he's part of a double cross. How he sorts through these divided loyalties tests of his samurai honor, and perhaps of his love for a woman.

title: Stray Dog

overview: 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 undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

title: 1941

overview: In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

title: I Live in Fear

overview: An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared incompetent, a family-court counselor witnesses his obsession slide into ruin—and asks whether ignoring the atomic threat is any saner.

title: Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

overview: 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 her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.

original_title: 続宮本武蔵　一乗寺の決闘

title: Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

overview: Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

title: Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

overview: 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's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.

original_title: 宮本武蔵完結編　決闘巌流島

title: Midway

overview: 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.

title: Sanjuro

overview: In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

title: The Bad Sleep Well

overview: In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.

title: Red Sun

overview: In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a valuable sword to the President of the United States, a gift from the Emperor of Japan. On board the same train are two robbers, Link and Gauche, ready to make their move…

title: The Idiot

overview: A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.

title: Hell in the Pacific

overview: 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 the Pacific Ocean.

title: Yojimbo

overview: 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 local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

title: The Lower Depths

overview: 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 turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.

title: Drunken Angel

overview: In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.

title: Scandal

overview: A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

title: Samurai Rebellion

overview: The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to rescue her.

title: Death of a Tea Master

overview: Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.

title: High and Low

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

title: Winter Kills

overview: 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 real shooter.

title: Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

overview: Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding father and son yakuza as well as the younger crime boss’s bodyguard, scruffy, smart-mouthed, cash-hungry Yojimbo of legend.

title: The Rickshaw Man

overview: A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

title: The Life of Oharu

overview: During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

title: The Quiet Duel

overview: A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats himself in secret and breaks off his engagement rather than risk his fiancée’s future, even as he confronts the irresponsible patient who infected him—testing his ethics, pride, and capacity for sacrifice.

title: Chûshingura

overview: After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

title: Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

overview: Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Shogunate. But bloodshed and treachery lurk around every corner.

title: Japan's Longest Day

overview: Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.

title: The Challenge

overview: 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 two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman. At the behest of the businessman, Rick undertakes samurai training from the other brother, but joins his cause. He also becomes romantically involved with the samurai's daughter.

title: Shadow of the Wolf

overview: 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 persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northern Quebec.

title: Samurai Pirate

overview: 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 throne and marrying the king's beautiful daughter. Along the way, with the help of some courageous rebels and a lustful wizard, he must overcome the powers of a bewitching witch, a band of ruthless pirates, and the castle's Imperial guards. He must also free those kidnapped into slavery and restore the king's reputation.

character: Sukezaemon Naya, aka 'Luzon' [Sinbad, in US version]

title: Samurai Banners

overview: 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?

title: Tatsu

title: The Sword of Doom

overview: 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.

title: The Fall of Ako Castle

overview: 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 revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.

title: Attack Squadron

overview: 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 momentum in the war is for the air force to gather its most brilliant pilots into an elite squadron and use the unit to pinpoint attacks on the Americans. Disrespected by the kamikaze pilots who think the "non-suicidal" pilots are afraid, the unit redeems itself by stunning victories. But success leads the military leaders to expect too much of the unit, and new orders portend disaster.

title: Princess from the Moon

overview: 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.

title: Adventure in Kigan Castle

overview: 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 the Middle East, where they find intrigue and romance in the court of an evil king.

title: Samurai Assassin

overview: 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 assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.

title: Yaji and Kita on the Road

overview: 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 wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, mistaken identity, and misunderstood events. Another film adaptation of the famous novel Ikku Jippensha Footing It Along the Tokaido (Tokaidochu Hizakurige)

title: Vendetta of a Samurai

overview: Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.

original_title: 荒木又右衛門 決闘鍵屋の辻

title: cf Girl

overview: The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Takashi Kitajima.

title: Red Lion

overview: Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.

title: Desperado Outpost

overview: 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.

title: Paper Tiger

overview: 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 by terrorists for political purposes.

title: Battle of the Japan Sea

overview: 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 Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians, with results which stun both nations. Meanwhile, Major Genjiro Akashi makes secret negotiations with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, negotiations that have repercussions far beyond the conflict at hand.

title: Snow Trail

overview: 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 Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.

title: Yagyu Secret Scrolls

title: The Important Man

overview: 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 village, a place of great honor usually conferred upon the wealthiest and most respected citizens. Animas has a loyal wife, but cheats on her and gambles away every cent they raise. Chances arise for Animas to turn over a new leaf and even hope realistically for the honor of mayordomio.

title: The Bushido Blade

overview: 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 sent to find it.

title: Inchon

overview: Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.

title: Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II

overview: In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them. In Part II, the search for the scrolls continues.

title: Fort Graveyard

overview: Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.

title: The Sands of Kurobe

overview: Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.

title: The Last Gunfight

overview: Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned to investigate the death of the wife of gangster Tetsuo Maruyama of the Kozuka gang, probably at the hands of one of the Oka gang. During a gang gunfight, Maruyama is rescued by Detective Fujioka and the two become friends. But Maruyama insists on avenging his wife's murder, even if it means conflict with his new friend.

title: Samurai Saga

overview: 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. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.

title: Whirlwind

overview: 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 chaos and the persecution of the Shogun's army.  Five samurai decide on different fates when it becomes clear that their side is being destroyed.  One wants to attack the enemy head on in a final honorable death. Another decides to commit hari-kiri but wants to find a glorious view to do it. His close friend, the "coward", just wants to run and give up the life of a samurai.  The final two set their own castle on fire to garner favors from the enemy and therefore avert their own death during the massacre of all defeated soldiers as

title: Lowly Ronin

overview: 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 movie. The wandering  ronin is reminiscent of his most famous role as the samurai without a name in  Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro". He travels about Japan, and while he may seek  happiness, violence and tragedy always cross his path. This time, he reluctantly  agrees when a girl hires him to kill a local offical who has unfairly taxed her villagers.  But he soon discoves that not all is at it appears when he finds a direct link to his past.

title: Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood

overview: 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 movie. The wandering  ronin is reminiscent of his most famous role as the samurai without a name in  Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro". He travels about Japan, and while he may seek  happiness, violence and tragedy always cross his path. This time it is a woman  carrying a young infant who he encounters on the road that leads him into a tale of  violence, intrigue and a village in uproar. A great story and cool action scenes, a movie  not to be missed!

original_title: 素浪人罷り通る 暁の死闘

title: The Three Treasures

overview: 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 Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.

title: Wedding Ring

overview: A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

title: Daredevil in the Castle

overview: During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei's daredevil skills will be put to severe tests.

title: All About Marriage

overview: Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

title: Love and Faith

overview: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin's father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord's plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.

title: The Ambitious

overview: 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, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.

title: Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions

overview: A short making of feature about the 1966 John Frankenheimer movie Grande Prix

title: Rebels on the High Sea

title: The Mad Atlantic

overview: 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 ever have, creating enmity and exhaustion. Just when the ship has taken a huge catch of tuna in its nets, Murakami learns that his ship is the only one in position to rescue the crew of another ship, sinking in a storm. He must choose between saving the catch or saving lives. Either choice may mean his ruin.

title: A Dangerous Hero

title: A Man in the Storm

overview: Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.

title: Settlement of Love

overview: 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 anniversary wake. Some time following the ceremony one of the attendees marries the widow. Soon another friend of the deceased and his family also make the house their home when they move to town. Everyone's life is changed quite a bit. When the newer husband sustains an injury to his leg and loses his job it leads to the wife having to work. By the time the fifth anniversary of the friend's death occurs and another reunion is held another friend is in love with the former widow.

title: The Masterless 47

title: All is Well 2

title: All is Well

title: Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong

title: Proof of the Man

overview: 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 New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.

title: Holiday in Tokyo

overview: 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 of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. But she is spotted and the press has a field-day with the returning celebrity. Her hopes of rest shattered, she agrees to put on a large-scale fashion show.

title: Journey of Honor

overview: The son of a besieged Shogun in war-torn 17th century Japan travels to Spain to buy weaponry from the king.

title: Shogun's Samurai

overview: 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 shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.

title: Escape from Prison

title: Safari 5000

overview: A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a  rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enlisted to race in an annual endurance race, The East African Safari Rally. Peripheral to this is the story concerning Godai's former lover Yuko (Ruriko Asaoka), a fashion designer, and her friend Anna (Emmanuel Riva), who happens to be Pierre's wife.

title: Sasaki Kojiro

overview: Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasaki Kojiro, who rises from humble beginnings to national fame, and a young Toshiro Mifune appears as the legendary master swordsman Miyamoto Musashi for the first time and essentially sets the standard for future portrayals.This masterpiece is based on the original story as written by noted author Murakami Genzo and is far superior to any other versions. Following Kojiro from his earliest days through his fateful meeting with Musashi, this movie is filled with exciting and dramatic moments culminating in the best version of the final duel ever seen on film.

title: Secret of the Forbidden Valley

overview: 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 being innocent.

title: Admiral Yamamoto

overview: As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.

original_title: 連合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六

title: A Wife's Heart

overview: A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't help and then her husband becomes jealous of the loan officer.

title: Rise Against the Sword

overview: 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 the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.

title: The Retired Samurai

overview: 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 danger. The elderly Hikozaemon has been belittled of late and has seemingly lost the will to live, much less the desire to assert himself and make Iemitsu listen to reason. The plot thickens when a lovely young woman enters the picture. Can she change Hikozaemon's mind, and thus alter the path of Japanese history? No longer a young man, can Hikozaemon gain the shogun's ear, and succeed in warning him of the evil plot to overthrow him?

original_title: 傑作時代劇 天下の御意見番罷り通る！彦左衛門外記

title: Deep River

overview: A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.

title: Picture Bride

overview: 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 start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age. The miserable girl finds solace with her new friend Kana, a young mother who helps Riyo accept her new life.

title: The Demon Comes in Spring

overview: 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's enforced marriage to another man, in order that they may marry themselves. The ancient custom of the village decrees that the angry sea gods must be calmed by throwing the pair back into the sea. The lovers face being sacrificed to the sea gods or perhaps something even more difficult to bear.

title: Port Arthur

overview: 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 (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.

title: Shag

overview: 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.

title: The Storm of the Pacific

overview: 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 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.

original_title: ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐

title: The Day the Sun Rose

overview: 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 custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.

title: Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell

overview: 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, the Ronin takes the child back to his village. There, the Ronin reluctantly gets involved in a pathetic revolt by the cowardly villagers against their tyrannical governor. Mifune at his best!

original_title: Suronin Makari Toru 4 Sarumo Jigoku Nokorumo Jigoku

title: The Eagle of the Pacific

overview: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.

title: Battle Anthem

overview: The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.

title: The Big Boss

overview: Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.

title: No More God, No More Love

overview: 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 jobs, illegal schemes, and brutal romances.

title: The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai

overview: A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind numerous debts and his illegitimate child. Desperate to track down her missing husband, she travels to Kyushu in hopes of finding clues to his whereabouts and in the process discovers disturbing secrets about the man she loves.

title: The Militarists

title: Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

overview: Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

title: The Gambling Samurai

overview: Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family. A final tragedy leads Kunisada to join with a band of rogues living in the forest in robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, always with an eye toward avenging himself on Magistrate Matsui.

title: Domineering

overview: 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.

title: Saga of the Vagabonds

overview: 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 and befriending Taro, Rokuro decides to return the money to Taro. But Taro's unscrupulous brother Jiro falsely accuse Taro of the theft, and Taro reactively joins the outlaw band and encourages them to steal from the nobles and give to the poor.

title: Mifune: The Last Samurai

overview: 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.

character: Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)

title: Tora-san Goes North

overview: When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.

title: The Women of Osaka Castle

overview: 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 anniversary of the founding of Nippon Television.

title: Okita Soji: Swordsman of Fire

original_title: 燃えて、散る 炎の剣士 沖田総司

title: The Life of a Horse Trader

overview: 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 a husband he is frequently drawn to taverns.

title: Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl

overview: 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 father and daughter until fate steps in and he must draw his sword.

original_title: 素浪人罷り通る 涙に消えた三日極楽

title: The Shatterer

overview: 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 between Italy and Japan's Toho Studios.

title: Beyond Love and Hate

overview: 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 escape from the prison in order to seek her out and learn the truth, but the police give chase and he must flee into the mountains.

title: The Last Embrace

overview: Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in an avalanche, Yukiko leaves the mountains in despair and takes a job in a bar where she becomes deeply involved in the personal lives of several of the patrons. One day she thinks she sees Shinkichi alive, but it turns out to be a gangster named Hayakawa, a man on the run who bears an astonishing resemblance to Yukiko's lost love. Against her better judgment, she is drawn to help Hayakawa, though clearly danger follows him.

title: No Time for Tears

overview: Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic relationship with the coach's daughter Michiko, Shimamura becomes angry with the young man, lashing out at him when he disobeys instructions during a game. In turn, Michiko becomes angry with her father, who becomes increasingly depressed. When a tragedy strikes the family, Coach Shimamura begins losing control of his life, just when his family and his team need him most.

title: Foghorn

overview: A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.

title: The Underworld

overview: Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuya himself has fallen in love, with a nurse after his recent hospital stay. As the gang grows more jealous of the favoritism Furuya shows Shoji, they decide to reveal Shoji's relationship with Natsue. But Furuya's affection for Shoji cannot be easily destroyed, even in the gang war that erupts.

title: Man Against Man

overview: 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 in a smuggling scheme, conflict arises between the two friends. Falsely blamed for murder, Kikumori is blackmailed into an attempt to sabotage Kaji's boats and kill him. But the friendship between the two men proves an obstacle to the gangleader's plans.

title: The Retreat from Kiska

overview: 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 overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuations in military history. This is that story.

original_title: 太平洋奇跡の作戦　キスカ

title: Sword for Hire

overview: Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.

title: Theater Of Life

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～隠し砦の三悪人

title: The Youth and His Amulet

overview: 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's rescue in times of difficulty.

title: The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel

overview: In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines, hoping to find there safety and perhaps to link up with his father. He meets Yoko, a saloon girl, who looks after him, but soon Joe's enemies show up, determined to make Joe pay.

title: Lord Mito

overview: One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose travels around the nation are legendary has made it to the silver screen in a dynamic and exciting tale featuring megastar Toshiro Mifune as an expert swordsman drawn into the action to fight injustice. The Elder Lord travels about disguised as a retired merchant with his two trusty bodyguards Sukesaburo and Kakunoshin by his side and secret agent Yashichi close by. After a chance meeting with a dying man and young woman who had been brutally attacked, they set out for Kaga Province to wreak vengeance on the responsible parties. Don’t miss this exciting journey into Japanese history!

title: Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

overview: 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.

title: Tokyo Sweetheart

overview: Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.

title: Legacy of the 500,000

overview: 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 working as a business executive. He meets Mintsura Gunji, the boss of a large company, who offers him to go to the Philippines and bring back the gold.

title: The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

overview: Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.

character: Kindaichi of 11th Generation in "The Woman in the Eye"

title: Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass

overview: 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.  Nursed back to health by Yamaoka Daijiro, the one Nanbu Clan retainer that believes him, he must find a way to prove his inno-cence to the others.  The two team up together to uncover the mystery and find out who the real spy is that threatens the security of the clan.  Against all odds, the two master swordsmen must rely on all their skills to defeat a vast conspiracy and save the clan from being abolished.

original_title: 素浪人罷り通る 矢立峠に裏切りを見た

title: Onmitsu Doshin: The Edo Secret Police

overview: 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.

title: The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn

overview: 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 tried to kill the young Lord he must now clear himself of the accusations. Befriended by an old woman, she then attempts to use him for her own designs.

original_title: 素浪人罷り通る 血煙りの宿

title: Strawberry Road

overview: Hisa Ishii and his brother Akira emigrate from Japan to the United States. They settle in rural California and start a strawberry farm, slowly integrating themselves into the life of the community, which includes Japanese-Americans of both lengthy and brief residence.

title: Down Town

overview: 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 her missing husband.

title: The Masterless 47 – Part II

title: The Man Who Came to Port

title: Good Luck to These Two

overview: A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

title: Japanese Godfather: Ambition

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

title: Seven Samurai

overview: 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 others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

title: Scoundrel

title: Theater of Life

title: Swift Current

overview: 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, Iwate Prefecture, and the human relationships involved in building the dam. A masterpiece by director Senkichi Taniguchi, who has worked on numerous films starring Mifune.

title: My Wonderful Yellow Car

title: Sunflower Girl

overview: 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 her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When the women go on strike over the issue, Setsuko finds herself caught in the middle. When the heir to the company, Ryosuke Tanabe, proposes marriage to Setsuko, she is honored, but realizes that her real affection is for Hitachi.

title: Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode

overview: 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 of Uesugi Kenshin, who rose from a son out of favor with his...

title: A Man Among Men

overview: 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 in which Maki has an interest in one of the fighters. After a terrible brawl, the two gangsters discover that they have both been played for suckers by their bosses. They join forces to turn the tables on the bosses.

title: Sanshiro Sugata

overview: Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.

title: These Foolish Times

title: The Walking Major

overview: 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 rebuild an orphanage. Suspicious of Allen's motives, a Japanese newsman, Hiroshi Kitabayashi, traces the American's background until he discovers the motive behind Allen's long walk.

title: Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 1

overview: 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 father Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune seeks to reunite with his lost son.  Part 1 sets up the story and introduces the characters.  When the secrets of Shingo's birth are revealed to him, it sets off a series of events that bring him to cross swords with members of the shogun's inner circle.

title: Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 2

overview: 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 Yoshimune must face a painful decision whether or not he can finally see his son for the first time.

title: Jakoman and Tetsu

overview: 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 of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.

title: Pirates

title: Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre

overview: In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful.

title: Who Knows a Woman's Heart

overview: Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student at K University and was a figure player. They had a dream of being dispatched to Oslo in the Olympic Games and were struggling in each way. Mizuno who runs a sports equipment store in Ginza, showed the geisha by guiding the junior's Ikeuchi and others to the shop of Shimbashi one day.

title: The Black Fury

overview: A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequent decline and death of their mother. Tsuda acts viciously and with disdain for legal niceties in his exploration of the criminal facts behind the explosion of a freighter in the harbor. He goes undercover with a band of drug smugglers, but his methods threaten to destroy him as well as his case.

title: Rainy Night Duel

overview: 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 school because of his propensity for street fighting. He goes to work for a gangster named Joji, but when he realizes that Joji is mixed up in the slave trade, Koseki helps the police in their attempts to foil Joji.

title: The Surf

overview: 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.

title: Elegy

overview: Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his disciple Uchiyama and his best friend prosecutor Daisuke Toki accused his music as a sesame of pause-only technique, not a truly heart-hungry art.

title: Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

overview: 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 photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.

title: Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

overview: A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.

title: Shogun

overview: Englishman John Blackthorne, serving the Netherlands as navigator of the "Erasmus," is sailing a merchant fleet bound for uncharted Japan. In Asian waters, the fleet is caught in a violent storm and capsizes. This is a compilation of footage from the miniseries, intended for international theatrical release.

title: Samurai Rebellion

title: Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

title: The Mad Atlantic

title: Morning for Two

overview: While Keisuke and Jiro were brothers, the characters of the two were opposite. My older brother Keisuke was a sophomore college graduate, a honest and passionate young man, but his brother Jiro was only a student of a ronin who failed in taking the university and was playing. Such two people had a dream. Keisuke traveled wandering at his own trailer house, Jiro became a racer, had a dream of surrounding the world.

title: Adventure in Kigan Castle

title: Red Lion

title: Incident at Blood Pass

title: Fort Graveyard

title: Shag

title: Legacy of the 500,000

title: Legacy of the 500,000

title: Samurai Banners

title: Onmitsu Doshin: The Edo Secret Police

title: Foghorn

title: The Last Embrace

title: The Hidden Fortress

title: Rashomon

title: Red Beard

title: Throne of Blood

title: Grand Prix

title: Incident at Blood Pass

title: Stray Dog

title: 1941

title: I Live in Fear

title: Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

original_title: 続宮本武蔵　一乗寺の決闘

title: Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

title: Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

original_title: 宮本武蔵完結編　決闘巌流島

title: Midway

title: Sanjuro

title: The Bad Sleep Well

title: Red Sun

title: The Idiot

title: Hell in the Pacific

title: Yojimbo

title: The Lower Depths

title: Drunken Angel

title: Scandal

title: Samurai Rebellion

title: Death of a Tea Master

title: High and Low

title: Winter Kills

title: Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

title: The Life of Oharu

title: The Rickshaw Man

title: The Quiet Duel

title: Chûshingura

title: Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

title: Japan's Longest Day

title: The Challenge

title: Shadow of the Wolf

title: Samurai Pirate

title: Samurai Banners

title: Tatsu

title: The Sword of Doom

title: The Fall of Ako Castle

title: Attack Squadron

title: Princess from the Moon

title: Adventure in Kigan Castle

title: Samurai Assassin

title: Yaji and Kita on the Road

title: Vendetta of a Samurai

original_title: 荒木又右衛門 決闘鍵屋の辻

title: cf Girl

title: Red Lion

title: Desperado Outpost

title: Paper Tiger

title: Battle of the Japan Sea

title: Snow Trail

title: Yagyu Secret Scrolls

title: The Important Man

title: The Bushido Blade

title: Inchon

title: Fort Graveyard

title: The Sands of Kurobe

title: The Last Gunfight

title: Samurai Saga

title: Whirlwind

title: Lowly Ronin

title: Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood

original_title: 素浪人罷り通る 暁の死闘

title: The Three Treasures

title: Wedding Ring

title: Daredevil in the Castle

title: All About Marriage

title: Love and Faith

title: The Ambitious

title: Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions

title: Rebels on the High Sea

title: The Mad Atlantic

title: Settlement of Love

title: A Man in the Storm

title: A Dangerous Hero

title: The Masterless 47

title: All is Well

title: All is Well 2

title: Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong

title: Proof of the Man

title: Holiday in Tokyo

title: Journey of Honor

title: Shogun's Samurai

title: Escape from Prison

title: Safari 5000

title: Sasaki Kojiro

title: Secret of the Forbidden Valley

title: Admiral Yamamoto

original_title: 連合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六

title: A Wife's Heart

title: Rise Against the Sword

title: The Retired Samurai

original_title: 傑作時代劇 天下の御意見番罷り通る！彦左衛門外記

title: Deep River

title: Picture Bride

title: The Demon Comes in Spring

title: Port Arthur

title: Shag

title: The Storm of the Pacific

original_title: ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐

title: The Day the Sun Rose

title: Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell

title: The Eagle of the Pacific

title: Battle Anthem

title: The Big Boss

title: No More God, No More Love

title: The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai

title: The Militarists

title: Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

title: The Gambling Samurai

title: Domineering

title: Saga of the Vagabonds

title: Mifune: The Last Samurai

title: Tora-san Goes North

title: The Women of Osaka Castle

title: Okita Soji: Swordsman of Fire

original_title: 燃えて、散る 炎の剣士 沖田総司

title: The Life of a Horse Trader

title: Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl

original_title: 素浪人罷り通る 涙に消えた三日極楽

title: The Shatterer

title: Beyond Love and Hate

title: Foghorn

title: The Last Embrace

title: No Time for Tears

title: The Underworld

title: Man Against Man

title: The Retreat from Kiska

original_title: 太平洋奇跡の作戦　キスカ

title: Sword for Hire

title: Theater Of Life

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～隠し砦の三悪人

title: The Youth and His Amulet

title: The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel

title: Lord Mito

title: Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

title: Tokyo Sweetheart

title: Legacy of the 500,000

title: The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

title: Onmitsu Doshin: The Edo Secret Police

title: The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn

original_title: 素浪人罷り通る 血煙りの宿

title: Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass

original_title: 素浪人罷り通る 矢立峠に裏切りを見た

title: Strawberry Road

title: Down Town

title: The Masterless 47 – Part II

title: The Man Who Came to Port

title: Good Luck to These Two

title: Japanese Godfather: Ambition

title: Seven Samurai

title: Scoundrel

title: Theater of Life

title: Swift Current

title: My Wonderful Yellow Car

title: Sunflower Girl

title: Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode

title: A Man Among Men

title: Sanshiro Sugata

title: These Foolish Times

title: The Walking Major

title: Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 1

title: Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 2

title: Pirates

title: Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre

title: Jakoman and Tetsu

title: The Black Fury

title: Who Knows a Woman's Heart

title: Rainy Night Duel

title: The Surf

title: Elegy

title: Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

title: Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

title: Shogun

Falcons of Edo

original_name: 江戸の鷹 御用部屋犯科帖

Ronin in a Lawless Town

original_name: 人魚亭異聞 無法街の素浪人

title: Samurai Rebellion

title: Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

title: The Mad Atlantic

title: Morning for Two

title: Adventure in Kigan Castle

title: Red Lion

title: Incident at Blood Pass

title: Fort Graveyard

title: Shag

title: Legacy of the 500,000

title: Legacy of the 500,000

title: Samurai Banners

title: Onmitsu Doshin: The Edo Secret Police


Rachel Singer

biography: Rachel Singer is an American actress known for her roles in Fight Club (1999), The Green Mile (1999), and Better Call Saul (2015). She began her career in theater and performed in productions with Tina Fey and Nick Offerman. Singer graduated from Duke University and has been married to Tom Lamb since 2000. They have two children.

The Girlfriend Experience

overview: Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.

character: Pawn Shop Clerk

original_name: The Girlfriend Experience

original_language: en

Better Call Saul

overview: Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".

character: Committee Member One

original_name: Better Call Saul

CSI: Miami

overview: The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.

character: Janet Carver

original_name: CSI: Miami

The West Wing

overview: The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.

character: Marge

original_name: The West Wing

ER

overview: ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

character: Sheila O'Brien

original_name: ER

Godless

overview: A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.

character: Betsy

original_name: Godless

CBS Summer Playhouse

job: Writer

overview: CBS anthology series airing unsold television pilots during the summer season.

department: Writing

original_name: CBS Summer Playhouse

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Deutsch

biography: Rachel Singer ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin, die für ihre Rollen in Fight Club (1999), The Green Mile (1999) und Better Call Saul (2015) bekannt ist. Sie begann ihre Karriere im Theater und trat in Produktionen mit Tina Fey und Nick Offerman auf. Singer absolvierte ihr Studium an der Duke University und ist seit 2000 mit Tom Lamb verheiratet, mit dem sie zwei Kinder hat.

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

title: Joy Ride

overview: Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.

character: Gas Station Manager

original_title: Joy Ride

title: The Green Mile

overview: A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

character: Cynthia Hammersmith

original_title: The Green Mile

title: Fight Club

overview: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

character: Chloe

original_title: Fight Club

title: Only the Brave

overview: Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.

character: Brendan's Mom

original_title: Only the Brave

title: What Lies Beneath

overview: Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.

character: PhD Student #3

original_title: What Lies Beneath

title: Treasure Island

overview: This film has nothing to do with Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story, but rather a naval base of the same name located in San Francisco Bay. Set amid WWII, TREASURE ISLAND follows two American code specialists that are hard at work trying to decipher Japanese messages and sending confusing messages back to deceive the enemy.  The film explores sexual themes that were prevalent during the period, but not shown in the movies of that era. Frank, a bigamist, is married to two women and is pursuing a third wife. Samuel and his wife Penny are in a ménage à trois, which he participates in to cover up his homosexuality. As the pressures of the men’s lives begin to eat away at them, the dead body starts to torment Frank and Samuel's subconscious, interacting with the private stories of their lives.

character: Anna

original_title: Treasure Island

title: American Woman

overview: A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.

character: Mrs. Derrick

original_title: American Woman

title: Woman Walks Ahead

overview: Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer intent on war with Native Americans.

character: Dry Goods Assistant

original_title: Woman Walks Ahead

title: The Kid

overview: New Mexico Territory, 1880. Rio Cutler and his older sister Sara must abandon their home after an unfortunate event happens. In their desperate flee to Santa Fe, they cross paths with the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid and his gang, who are ruthlessly pursued by a posse led by Sheriff Pat Garret.

character: Cricket (Whore)

original_title: The Kid

title: 8MM

overview: A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.

character: Neighbor

title: Moonlight Mile

overview: As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.

character: Rhonda Ketch

original_title: Moonlight Mile

title: Joy Ride

media_type: movie

title: The Green Mile

title: Fight Club

title: Only the Brave

title: What Lies Beneath

title: Treasure Island

title: American Woman

title: Woman Walks Ahead

title: The Kid

title: 8MM

title: Moonlight Mile