The Hidden Fortress (1958), Kuroneko (1968), Stray Dog (1949), Godzilla (1954), Cure (1997), The Burmese Harp (1956), Harakiri (1962), Seven Samurai (1954) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Japanese Cinema movies.
Storyline: Two medieval misfits help a beaten Japanese warlord (Toshirô Mifune) and his princess (Misa Uehara) escape with the royal gold.
Plot Keywords: adventure, action, drama, classic, war, epic, quest ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this ghost story based on a folk tale of feudal Japan, a group of samurai mercenaries led by Raiko Minamoto (Kei Satô) storm the home of Yone (Nobuko Otowa) and her daughter, Shigei (Kiwako Taichi), pillaging their food before raping and murdering the pair and finally burning the house down. When the samurai are set upon by vengeful vampire-like ghosts, it falls to the warrior Gintoki (Kichiemon Nakamura) to slay the malicious spirits, but his connection to the victims leads to conflict.
Plot Keywords: horror, supernatural, folklore, ghost story, black-and-white, period drama, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two detectives (Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura) track one's stolen revolver into the underworld of late-1940s Tokyo.
Plot Keywords: film noir, detective, crime, moral ambiguity, social commentary, urban decay, manhunt ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A fire-breathing behemoth terrorizes Japan after an atomic bomb awakens it from its centuries-old sleep.
Plot Keywords: monster, sci-fi, disaster, nuclear fear, classic, black and white, horror ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Tokyo detective (Koji Yakusho) investigates a series of murders committed in exactly the same way by people who seem to have no connection.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, horror, crime, mystery, detective, serial killer, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kon Ichikawa's anti-war parable about a Japanese soldier burying his fallen comrades at the end of World War II.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, music, redemption, peace, humanity, death ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri (self-inflicted disembowelment). An elder warrior, Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) seeks admittance to the house of a feudal lord to commit the act. There, he learns of the fate of his son-in-law, a young samurai who sought work at the house but was instead barbarically forced to commit traditional hara-kiri in an excruciating manner with a dull bamboo blade. In flashbacks the samurai tells the tragic story of his son-in-law, and how he was forced to sell his real sword to support his sick wife and child. Tsugumo thus sets in motion a tense showdown of revenge against the house.
Plot Keywords: honor, revenge, moral dilemma, ritual, tragedy, sacrifice, social criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, drama, historical, war, swordplay, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Director Adam Low explores the life and work of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, who is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors of all-time. Low begins with Kurosawa's childhood in Tokyo and chronicles his ascent following the release of such masterpieces as "Rashomon," "Seven Samurai" and "Throne of Blood." The film also includes interviews with figures Kurosawa has influenced, including such film icons as Clint Eastwood and George Lucas.
Plot Keywords: historical drama, war, human nature, honor, loyalty, betrayal, art film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A wealthy businessman is told his son has been kidnapped and he will have to pay a very large sum for him to be returned safely. It is then discovered that his son is safe at home: the kidnapper took his chauffeur's son by accident. The kidnapper says this makes no difference: pay up or the child dies. This leaves him with a moral dilemma, as he really needs the money to conclude a very important business deal.
Plot Keywords: crime, suspense, drama, thriller, kidnapping, moral dilemma, social class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Intrepid Japanese detective Maiku Hama is on the case in this adventure. Hama is suave, macho, and cold but he is a total klutz. His attempts at machismo always fall flat. When he's out on a case he spends more time getting beaten up than he does solving the case.
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, detective, mystery, indie film, violence, hardboiled ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A rigid clerk (Takashi Shimura) resolves to do something of lasting importance after learning that he is dying of cancer.
Plot Keywords: meaning of life, death, bureaucracy, redemption, loneliness, family, social critique ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Noriko is 27 years old and is still living with her father Somiya, a widower. Noriko just recovered from an illness she developed in the war, and now the important question pops up: when will Noriko start thinking about marriage? Everybody who is important in her life tries to talk her into it: her father, her aunt, a girlfriend. But Noriko doesn't want to get married, she seems extremely happy with her life. She wants to stay with her father to take care of him. After all, she knows best of his manners and peculiarities. But Noriko's aunt doesn't want to give up. She arranges a partner for her and thinks of a plan that will convince Noriko her father can be left alone.
Plot Keywords: family, father-daughter relationship, marriage, tradition, social pressure, black and white film, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake Biwa in the Province of Omi, the family man farmer and craftsman Genjurô travels to Nagahama to sell his wares and makes a small fortune. His neighbor Tobei that is a fool man dreams on becoming a samurai, but he can not afford to buy the necessary outfit. The greedy Genjurô and Tobei work together manufacturing clay potteries, expecting to sell the pieces and enrich; however, their wives Miyage and Ohama are worried about the army of the cruel Shibata that is coming to their village and they warn their ambitious husbands. Their village is looted but the families flee and survive; Genjurô and Tobei decide to travel by boat with their wives and baby to sell the wares in a bigger town. When they meet another boat that was attacked by pirates, Genjurô decides to leave his wife and son on the bank of the river, promising to return in ten days. Genjurô, Tobei and Ohama raise a large...
Plot Keywords: classic film, period drama, ghost story, black and white, tragedy, fantasy, historical drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sanjuro, a wandering samurai enters a rural town in nineteenth century Japan. After learning from the innkeeper that the town is divided between two gangsters, he plays one side off against the other. His efforts are complicated by the arrival of the wily Unosuke, the son of one of the gangsters, who owns a revolver. Unosuke has Sanjuro beaten after he reunites an abducted woman with her husband and son, then massacres his father's opponents. During the slaughter, the samurai escapes with the help of the innkeeper; but while recuperating at a nearby temple, he learns of innkeeper's abduction by Unosuke, and returns to the town to confront him.
Plot Keywords: violence, moral ambiguity, black comedy, lone hero, human nature, power struggle, betrayal ...
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