Rentaro Mikuni — Actor (83)
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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] 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] WikiData IMDb TMDB
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] WikiData IMDb TMDB
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]
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.
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The Last Dance (1993) [Movie]
大病人
director: Jūzō Itami actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Masahiko Tsugawa …
other title: La dernière danse / 大病人
A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. Though his family, friends, and doctor try to keep the secret of his terminal cancer from him, Buhei gradually comes to realize the truth of his condition, leading him on a journey of despair, anger, and – ultimately – acceptance.
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB 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.
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A Story from Echigo (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
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.
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The Christian Revolt (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
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.
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Miyamoto Musashi (1961) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB 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.
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Duel at Fort Ezo (1970) [Movie] IMDb 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.
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My Sons (1991) [Movie] IMDb 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.
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple (1964) [Movie] IMDb 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.
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights (1962) [Movie] IMDb 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.
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A Fugitive from the Past (1965) [Movie]
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.
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Harakiri (1962) [Movie]
切腹
9.3 (18 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.
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The Friends (1994) [Movie]
夏の庭 The Friends
7.4 (5 ratings) 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.