Rashomon Japan, 1950 Director: Akira Kurosawa Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto (based on stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa) Genre: Drama / chambara Soundtrack composer: Fumio Hayasaka Editing: Akira Kurosawa Production: Daiei Film Main cast: Toshirô Mifune (Tajômaru, the bandit) Machiko Kyô (Masako Kanazawa, the wife) Masayuki Mori (Takehiro Kanazawa, the samurai) …
Seven Samurai Japan, 1954 Director: Akira Kurosawa Screenwriters: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo OguniGenre: ChambaraSoundtrack composer: Fumio HayasakaEditing: Akira KurosawaProduction company: Toho Main actors: Toshirō Mifune (Kikuchiyo) Takashi Shimura (Kambei Shimada) Yoshio Inaba (Shichiroji) Seiji Miyaguchi (Kyuzo) Minoru Chiaki (Heihachi) Daisuke Katō (Shimada) Kamatari Fujiwara (Manzo) Keiko Tsushima (Shino) Yoshio …
Yojimbo Japan, 1961 Director: Akira Kurosawa Screenwriters: Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo OguniGenre: ChambaraSoundtrack composer: Masaru SatôEditing: Akira KurosawaProduction company: Tomoyuki Tanaka (producer)Main actors: Toshirō Mifune (Kuwabatake Sanjuro) Tatsuya Nakadai (Unosuke) Eijirō Tōno (Gonji) Seizaburō Kawazu (Seibei) Isuzu Yamada (Orin) Daisuke Katō (Inokichi) Takashi Shimura (Tokuemon) Hiroshi Tachikawa (Yoichiro) Yosuke …
Kurutta ippeji (“A page of madness”) Japan, 1926 Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa Script: Yasunari Kawabata Cast: Masao Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima Plot We are shown several people in an insane asylum. A young woman dances frantically until she is exhausted (she apparently thinks she is a dancer performing some ritual …
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The wicked priest (V.O. Gokuaku Bozu) Japan, 1968 Director: Kiyoshi Saeki Genre: Action, Comedy, Gendai-geki Plot Buddhist monk Shinkai (Tomisaburo Wakayama) is an unusual religious man: drinker, womanizer, inveterate gambler… And also a seasoned martial artist. In the early years of the Meiji era (around 1870), when the public carrying …
Naked Blood (V.O. Nekeddo Buraddo: Megyaku) Japan, 1996 Director: Hisayasu Sato Genre: Horror/Science Fiction/Gore Screenplay: Taketoshi Watari Cast: Misa Aika, Yumika Hayashi, Mika Kirihara, Sadao Abe Plot Young Eiji manufactures a serum to “turn pain into pleasure”, with which he intends to “save humanity”. He calls this drug “My Son”. …
Three outlaw samurai (V.O. Sanbiki no samurai) Japan, 1964 Director: Hideo Gosha Screenplay: Keiichi Abe, Eizaburo Shiba, Hideo Gosha Cast: Tetsuro Tamba, Isamu Nagato, Mikijirō Hira, Yoshiko Kayama Genre: Chambara Plot The wandering ronin Shiba (Tetsuro Tanba) arrives at an old mill (attracted by a hair clip he finds nearby, …
Rampo Noir (O.V. Ranpo Jigoku) Japan, 2005 Directors: Akio Jissoji, Atsushi Kaneko, Hisayasu Sato, Suguru Takeuchi Genre: Horror, ero-guro Plot The film is divided into four unrelated segments. “The Mars Canal” – Very brief, these are dreamlike sequences of a tormented individual escaping naked through a rocky landscape while recalling …
The wolves (O.V. Shussho Iwai) Japan, 1971 Director: Hideo Gosha Screenplay: Hideo Gosha, Kei Tasaka Cast: Rumi Aiki, Hideyo Amamoto, Noboru Andô Plot Japan, December 1926. After the death of Emperor Taisho and the entry into the Showa period with his successor Hirohito, the government granted a prison amnesty from …
