Rentaro Mikuni — Actor (35)
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData NeoDB TMDB
セーラー服と機関銃
director: Shinji Sōmai actor: Hiroko Yakushimaru / Yuki Kazamatsuri
other title: セーラー服と機関銃
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
Kwaidan (1965) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
怪談
8.8 (5 ratings) director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Michiyo Aratama / Rentaro Mikuni
other title: Kwaidan - Storie di fantasmi / Kwaïdan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
Vengeance Is Mine (1979) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
復讐するは我にあり
9.4 (5 ratings) director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Ken Ogata / Mayumi Ogawa
other title: La vendetta è mia / A Vingança é Minha
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
The Friends (1994) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
夏の庭 The Friends
director: Shinji Sōmai actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Naoki Sakata
other title: 夏の庭 The Friends
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.
Harakiri (1962) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
切腹
9.2 (11 ratings) director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Akira Ishihama
other title: Haraquiri / 切腹
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.
A Fugitive from the Past (1965) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
飢餓海峡
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Sachiko Hidari
other title: Lo stretto della fame / Le détroit de la faim
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights (1962) [Movie] TMDB
宮本武蔵 般若坂の決斗
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Wakaba Irie
other title: 宮本武蔵 般若坂の決斗 / Les moines lanciers du temple Hozoin
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle after three years of intense contemplation and philosophical study and starting on his epic quest to complete his skill in the Way.
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple (1964) [Movie] TMDB
宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決斗
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Wakaba Irie
other title: 宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決斗 / Seul contre tous à Ichijoji
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a treacherous clan in an arranged duel. 73 against one. Boastful Kojiro watches, secure in the knowledge that only he is a worthy opponent.
My Sons (1991) [Movie] TMDB
息子
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Masatoshi Nagase / Rentaro Mikuni
other title: 息子 / My sons (Mis hijos)
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father's acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way.
Duel at Fort Ezo (1970) [Movie] TMDB
蝦夷館の決闘
director: Kengo Furusawa actor: Yūzō Kayama / Rentaro Mikuni
other title: 蝦夷館の決闘
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.
Miyamoto Musashi (1961) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
宮本武蔵
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Akiko Kazami
other title: 宮本武蔵 / La Légende de Miyamoto Musashi
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicious. He sides with the Toyotomi at Sekigahara, and as a result finds himself on the losing side of the historic battle. He and his friend Matahachi manage to escape the slaughter although the latter is wounded in his leg. They stumble across the young Akemi who makes her living with her mother Oko by robbing corpses of their armor and anything else they can sell. Oko takes it into her head to seduce Matahachi, which she does first by skillfully sucking the gangrene from his blood, and then just by sucking.
The Christian Revolt (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
天草四郎時貞
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Hashizo Okawa / Ryutaro Otomo
other title: 天草四郎時貞 / Le Révolté
In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.
A Story from Echigo (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
越後つついし親不知
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Yoshiko Sakuma / Shoichi Ozawa
other title: 越後つついし親不知 / Story of Echigo
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home to find his wife changed and suspects that she has been unfaithful.
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro (1965) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
宮本武蔵 巌流島の決斗
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Ken Takakura
other title: 宮本武蔵 巌流島の決斗 / Le Duel de l'aube
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady Osugi (still doggedly trying to defeat Musashi), and even the return of Priest Takuan (the man responsible for his journey towards enlightenment). But most of all, the boastful, long-haired and long-sworded Sasaki Kojiro.
The Burmese Harp (1956) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
ビルマの竪琴
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Shōji Yasui
other title: L'arpa birmana / Freunde bis zum letzten
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市牢破り
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Shintarō Katsu / Rentaro Mikuni
other title: Zatôichi the Outlaw / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 16 : Le Justicier
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
Zatoichi at Large (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市御用旅
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Shintarō Katsu / Rentaro Mikuni
other title: La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 23 : Voyage à Shiobara / Zatoichi en general
Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her cruel fate.
The Old Man and the Sea (1999) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban
Старик и море
director: Aleksandr Petrov actor: Gordon Pinsent / Kevin Duhaney
other title: Il vecchio e il mare / The Old Man And The Sea
An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life.
The Inugami Family (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
犬神家の一族
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Koji Ishizaka / Yoko Shimada
other title: 犬神家の一族 / The Inugamis
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.