Sachio Sakai

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Samurai Saga (1959)
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Samurai Saga (1959)

18 Apr 1973 

Samurai Saga

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) ...
Drunken Angel (1948)
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Drunken Angel (1948)

30 Dec 1959 

Drunken Angel

Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to ...
Rhapsody in August (1991)
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Rhapsody in August

The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for ...
Japan’s Longest Day (1967)
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Japan’s Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the ...
Aoi sanmyaku (1949)
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Aoi sanmyaku (1949)

19 Jul 1949 

Aoi sanmyaku

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a ...
Tokkan (1975)
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Tokkan (1975)

15 Mar 1975 

Tokkan

During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight ...
The Big Boss (1959)
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The Big Boss (1959)

15 Jan 1959 

The Big Boss

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, ...
Zatoichi (1989)
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Zatoichi (1989)

04 Feb 1989 

Zatoichi

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he’s caught ...
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
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The Hidden Fortress

Japanese peasants Matashichi and Tahei try and fail to make a profit from a tribal war. They find a man and woman whom they believe are simple ...
Sanjuro (1962)
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Sanjuro (1962)

07 May 1963 

Sanjuro

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In ...
Yojimbo (1961)
8.2
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Yojimbo (1961)

13 Sep 1961 

Yojimbo

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 ...
Ikiru (1952)
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Ikiru (1952)

25 Mar 1956 

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to ...
Seven Samurai (1954)
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Seven Samurai (1954)

19 Nov 1956 

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai ...
Throne of Blood (1957)
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Throne of Blood

Returning to their lord’s castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part ...