Rentaro Mikuni — Actor (34)
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The Threat (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
脅迫
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Masumi Harukawa …
other title: Chantage / 脅迫
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family. They will force him to collect the child's ransom for them.
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Confessions Among Actresses (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
告白的女優論
director: Yoshishige Yoshida actor: Mariko Okada / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: Aveux, théories, actrices / 告白的女優論
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them has experienced a traumatic event which contributes to their particular enjoyment of becoming someone else in dramatic roles.
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The Possessed (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
妖婆
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Machiko Kyō / Kazuko Inano …
other title: 妖婆
Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and do anything at all. Shinzo hated Oshima, and he made love with Sawa.
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Captive's Island (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
処刑の島
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Shogen Nitta / Rentarō Mikuni …
other title: La isla de la tortura / 処刑の島 …
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman.
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Rikyu (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
利休
director: Hiroshi Teshigahara actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Yoshiko Mita …
other title: Rikyu der Teemeister / 利休 …
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord, unifying the country.
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
黒木太郎の愛と冒険
director: Azuma Morisaki actor: Kunie Tanaka / Mitsuko Baisho …
other title: 黒木太郎の愛と冒険
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.
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Coup d'Etat (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
戒厳令
director: Yoshishige Yoshida actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Yasuyo Matsumura …
other title: Golpe de Estado / Coup d'État …
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
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Two in the Amsterdam Rain (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
雨のアムステルダム
director: Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Kenichi Hagiwara / Keiko Kishi …
other title: 雨のアムステルダム
Sakuda is a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam. When his company gets exposed for exporting fire arms to Italy that are later repurposed for war in Africa, he finds himself involved in a major complot alongside Ryo, a woman from his native village whom he falls in love with.
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The Rendezvous (1972) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
約束
director: Kōichi Saitō actor: Keiko Kishi / Kenichi Hagiwara …
other title: Le Rendez-vous / 約束 …
The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
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The Catch (1961) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
飼育
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Akiko Koyama …
other title: L'addomesticamento / Le Piège …
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'.
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Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely (1980) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb NeoDB
ミスター・ミセス・ミス・ロンリー
director: Tatsumi Kumashiro actor: Mieko Harada / Ryudo Uzaki …
other title: ミスター・ミセス・ミス・ロンリー / 寂寞先生女士小姐
Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.
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Crossroad (1956) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB
死の十字路
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: 死の十字路
Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt to perfect his crime, he drives to a remote quarry to bury his wife’s body, but along the way, he finds another dead body in the back of his car! Given no choice, Ise dumps both bodies. Meanwhile, Yoshie begins her search for her missing brother, Yoshihiko. After surprising twists and turns, Ise faces his fate.
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Through the Mist (2009) [Movie] TMDB
Dédé, à travers les brumes
director: Jean-Philippe Duval actor: Sébastien Ricard / Joseph Mesiano …
other title: Dédé, à travers les brumes
A biopic of the late musician Dédé Fortin, the singer, songwriter, and founder of a very popular Québécois band called "Les Colocs".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.