Eijirō Tōno — Actor (99)
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II (1958) IMDb TMDB
柳生武芸帳　双龍秘剣
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Koji Tsuruta / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: 柳生武芸帳　双龍秘剣 / Yagyu bugeicho - Ninjitsu …
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.
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The Wolves (1955) IMDb TMDB
狼
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Sanae Takasugi …
other title: 狼 / Loup …
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.
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Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection (1963) WikiData IMDb TMDB
新・忍びの者
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Ayako Wakao …
other title: 新・忍びの者 / Shinobi No Mono 3 Resurrection
[Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill. With the help of the enigmatic Hattori Hanzo, Goemon lives to skulk another day, and sets his sights on bringing down the warlord who tried to turn him into soup – Toyotomi Hideyoshi. And as always, in the background, the suble hand of Tokugawa Ieyasu is pulling strings as he plots to rule all of Japan!
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The Lower Depths (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
どん底
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Isuzu Yamada …
other title: I bassifondi / どん底 …
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.
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Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance (1963)
続・忍びの者
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Shiho Fujimura …
other title: Shinobi No Mono 2: Vengeance / 続・忍びの者 …
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all the ninja who opposed him and answers that he suspects that there may be more. A servant brings water and tests it first. The paige dies and we hear gunshots as two ninja flee the scene. His suspicions confirmed, Nobunaga oversees the execution of captured ninja and decides that, in the future, he needs a much crueler method of execution. The daimyo Hideyoshi comes to visit.
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I Live in Fear (1955) IMDb TMDB
生きものの記録
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Takashi Shimura …
other title: Testimonianza di un essere vivente / 生きものの記録 …
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.
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Pigs and Battleships (1961)
豚と軍艦
director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Jitsuko Yoshimura …
other title: Porci, geishe e marinai / Porcos e Couraçados …
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
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An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
秋刀魚の味
★ 8.8 (5 ratings) director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Chishū Ryū / Shima Iwashita …
other title: Il gusto del sakè / O Gosto do Saké …
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
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The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
楢山節考
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Kinuyo Tanaka / Teiji Takahashi …
other title: La leggenda di Narayama / A Balada de Narayama …
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
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Yojimbo (1961)
用心棒
★ 8.0 (15 ratings) director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: La sfida del samurai / Livvagten …
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.
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Stray Dog (1949)
野良犬
★ 8.0 (5 ratings) director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Takashi Shimura …
other title: Cane randagio / Cão Danado …
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.
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
人間の條件　第１部純愛篇／第２部激怒篇
★ 9.2 (5 ratings) director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: La Condizione Umana: Parte I – Nessun amore è più grande / Guerra e Humanidade I: Não Há Amor Maior …
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
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Red Beard (1965)
赤ひげ
★ 9.3 (6 ratings) director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Yūzō Kayama …
other title: Barbarossa / Rødskæg …
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.
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Tokyo Story (1953)
東京物語
★ 9.1 (9 ratings) director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Chishū Ryū / Chieko Higashiyama …
other title: Viaggio a Tokyo / Viagem a Tóquio …
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
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Sword of the Beast (1965)
獣の剣
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Mikijiro Hira / Gō Katō …
other title: Le Sabre de la bête / 獣の剣
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.