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Shichinin no samurai aka Seven Samurai (1954)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
Cast Toshira Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima
Plot Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.
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Rashomon (1950)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Ryanosuke Akutagawa, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto
Cast Toshira Mifune, Machiko Kya, Masayuki Mori
Plot The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
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Yojinbo aka Yojimbo (1961)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Akira Kurosawa, Ryaza Kikushima
Cast Toshira Mifune, Eijira Tano, Tatsuya Nakadai
Plot A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
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Tengoku to jigoku aka High and Low (1963)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Hideo Oguni, Ryaza Kikushima, Eijira Hisaita
Cast Toshira Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai
Plot An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
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Kakushi-toride no san-akunin aka The Hidden Fortress (1958)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Ryaza Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto
Cast Toshira Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki
Plot Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
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Tsubaki Sanjuro aka Sanjuro (1962)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Ryaza Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshira Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
Plot A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
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Nora inu aka Stray Dog (1949)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Ryaza Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshira Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji
Plot During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective seeks advice from a seasoned colleague while trying to track down his stolen Colt pistol.
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Kumonosu-jo aka Throne of Blood (1957)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryaza Kikushima
Cast Toshira Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada
Plot A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
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Akahige aka Red Beard (1965)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Masato Ide, Hideo Oguni, Ryaza Kikushima
Cast Toshira Mifune, Yaza Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Plot In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.
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Yoidore tenshi aka Drunken Angel (1948)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Keinosuke Uekusa, Akira Kurosawa
Cast Takashi Shimura, Toshira Mifune, Reizabura Yamamoto
Plot A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.
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Shogun (1980)
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Cast Richard Chamberlain, Toshira Mifune, Yako Shimada
Plot An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in the complex political games in feudal Japan.
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Joi-uchi: Hairyo tsuma shimatsu aka Samurai Rebellion (1967)
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Director Masaki Kobayashi
Writer Shinobu Hashimoto, Yasuhiko Takiguchi
Cast Toshira Mifune, Yako Tsukasa, Ga Kata
Plot The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
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Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru aka The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Hideo Oguni, Eijira Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshira Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyako Kagawa
Plot A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
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Shizuka naru ketto aka The Quiet Duel (1949)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Kazuo Kikuta, Akira Kurosawa, Senkichi Taniguchi
Cast Toshira Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanja
Plot A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.
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Miyamoto Musashi aka Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
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Director Hiroshi Inagaki
Writer Hideji Haja, Hiroshi Inagaki, Tokuhei Wakao
Cast Toshira Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentara Mikuni
Plot Depicts the early life of the legendary warrior Musashi Miyamoto; his years as an aspiring warrior, an outlaw and finally a true samurai.
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Miyamoto Musashi kanketsu-hen: Ketto Ganryu-jima aka Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
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Director Hiroshi Inagaki
Writer Hideji Haja, Hiroshi Inagaki, Tokuhei Wakao
Cast Toshira Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kaji Tsuruta
Plot Musashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He agrees to fight him in a year's time.
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Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijo-ji no ketto aka Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
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Director Hiroshi Inagaki
Writer Hideji Haja, Hiroshi Inagaki, Tokuhei Wakao
Cast Toshira Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kaji Tsuruta
Plot Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence. After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel.
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Donzoko aka The Lower Depths (1957)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Maxim Gorky, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
Cast Toshira Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyako Kagawa
Plot In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
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Ikimono no kiroku aka I Live in Fear (1955)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Shinobu Hashimoto, Fumio Hayasaka, Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshira Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki
Plot An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.
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Shogun (1980)
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Director Jerry London
Writer James Clavell, Eric Bercovici
Cast Richard Chamberlain, Toshira Mifune, Yako Shimada
Plot An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.
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Shubun aka Scandal (1950)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Ryaza Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshira Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yako Katsuragi
Plot A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
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Hakuchi aka The Idiot (1951)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eijira Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa
Cast Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshira Mifune
Plot A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.
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Hell in the Pacific (1968)
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Director John Boorman
Writer Alexander Jacobs, Eric Bercovici, Reuben Bercovitch
Cast Lee Marvin, Toshira Mifune
Plot During World War II, an American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain are deserted on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. There, they must cease their hostility and cooperate if they want to survive, but will they?
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Ginrei no hate aka Snow Trail (1947)
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Director Senkichi Taniguchi
Writer Akira Kurosawa, Senkichi Taniguchi
Cast Toshira Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Kosugi
Plot Three bank robbers on the run from the police hide out in a remote mountain lodge high up in the snowy Japanese Alps.
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Soleil rouge aka Red Sun (1971)
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Director Terence Young
Writer Laird Koenig, Denne Bart Petitclerc, William Roberts
Cast Charles Bronson, Toshira Mifune, Alain Delon
Plot In 1870, a gang robs a train and steals a ceremonial Japanese sword meant as a gift for the U.S. President, prompting a manhunt to retrieve it.
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Samurai aka Samurai Assassin (1965)
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Director Kihachi Okamoto
Writer Shinobu Hashimoto, Jiromasa Gunji
Cast Toshira Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama
Plot When a samurai clan attempting to assassinate a feudal lord begin to suspect a traitor, they start an investigation on a ronin who is helping their cause.
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Chushingura (1962)
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Director Hiroshi Inagaki
Writer Toshio Yasumi
Cast Yaza Kayama, Chasha Ichikawa, Toshira Mifune
Plot After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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Muhomatsu no issho aka The Rickshaw Man (1958)
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Director Hiroshi Inagaki
Writer Hiroshi Inagaki, Mansaku Itami, Shunsaku Iwashita
Cast Toshira Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa
Plot A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
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Zatoichi to yojinbo aka Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
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Director Kihachi Okamoto
Writer Kihachi Okamoto, Kan Shimozawa, Tetsura Yoshida
Cast Toshira Mifune, Shintara Katsu, Ayako Wakao
Plot Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same...
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Animas Trujano (El hombre importante) aka The Important Man (1961)
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Director Ismael Rodraguez
Writer Rogelio Barriga Rivas, Ismael Rodraguez, Ricardo Garibay
Cast Toshira Mifune, Columba Domanguez, Flor Silvestre
Plot Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great honor usually conferred upon the wealthiest and most resp...
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Furin kazan aka Samurai Banners (1969)
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Director Hiroshi Inagaki
Writer Shinobu Hashimoto, Yasushi Inoue, Takeo Kunihiro
Cast Toshira Mifune, Yoshiko Sakuma, Kinnosuke Nakamura
Plot A shrewd 16th Century samurai helps a daimyo expand his realm.
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Akage aka Red Lion (1969)
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Director Kihachi Okamoto
Writer Sakae Hirosawa, Kihachi Okamoto
Cast Toshira Mifune, Shima Iwashita, Etsushi Takahashi
Plot Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt officials and businessmen.
