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1. Harakiri (1962)
Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 69,137
2. Kwaidan (1964)
Not Rated | 183 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Kenjirô Ishiyama
Votes: 20,065
3. Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Not Rated | 139 min | Crime, Drama
Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Ken Ogata, Rentarô Mikuni, Chôchô Miyako, Mitsuko Baishô
Votes: 7,314
4. Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
Depicts the early life of the legendary warrior Musashi Miyamoto; his years as an aspiring warrior, an outlaw and finally a true samurai.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni, Kurôemon Onoe
Votes: 9,531
5. The Burmese Harp (1956)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama, Music, War
A conscience-driven Japanese soldier traumatized by the events of WWII adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Tatsuya Mihashi, Jun Hamamura
Votes: 6,485
6. The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
20 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
An old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life.
Director: Aleksandr Petrov | Stars: Gordon Pinsent, Kevin Duhaney, Yôji Matsuda, Rentarô Mikuni
Votes: 4,597
7. Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)
131 min | Action, Romance
A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.
Director: Shinji Sômai | Stars: Hiroko Yakushimaru, Tsunehiko Watase, Rentarô Mikuni, Yuki Kazamatsuri
Votes: 911
8. The Inugami Family (1976)
146 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
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.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Kôji Ishizaka, Yôko Shimada, Teruhiko Aoi, Mieko Takamine
Votes: 1,162
9. Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
Not Rated | 173 min | Drama
An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideko Okiyama, Kanjûrô Arashi
Votes: 1,950
10. A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
183 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Three thieves escape from a heist, one of them killing the other two. He is sheltered by a prostitute and sought after by the police, but only after ten years his true motivation unravels.
Director: Tomu Uchida | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari, Kôji Mitsui, Yoshi Katô
Votes: 1,304
11. Natsu no niwa: The Friends (1994)
113 min | Comedy, Drama
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. ... See full summary »
Director: Shinji Sômai | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Naoki Sakata, Yasutaka Oh, Ken'ichi Makino
Votes: 182
12. Himiko (1974)
100 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Masao Kusakari, Rie Yokoyama, Chôichirô Kawarasaki
Votes: 738
13. Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (1969)
122 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant ... See full summary »
Director: Tadashi Sawashima | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Rentarô Mikuni
Votes: 468
14. A Taxing Woman's Return (1988)
127 min | Comedy, Crime
Ryoko Itakura returns as the government tax agent willing to tackle the toughest cases. This time she takes on a fanatical but lucrative religious cult run by a vile lecher.
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Rentarô Mikuni, Masahiko Tsugawa, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 721 | Gross: $0.33M
15. Rikyu (1989)
135 min | Biography, Drama, History
Legendary tea master Sen no Rikyu is faced with his warmongering lord's unrealistic pretensions.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Yoshiko Mita, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kyôko Kishida
Votes: 835
16. Wuthering Heights (1988)
143 min | Drama
A retelling of Emily Bronte's tale of vengeance and obsessive love, set in medieval Japan.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Yûsaku Matsuda, Yûko Tanaka, Tatsuo Nadaka, Eri Ishida
Votes: 295
17. Barefoot Gen (1976)
Biography, Drama, War
The story of Gen Nakaoka and his family, who lived in Hiroshima at the time it was atom-bombed, and their struggles and trials amidst the nuclear holocaust.
Director: Tengo Yamada | Stars: Sachiko Hidari, Hirokazu Ishimatsu, Chizuko Iwahara, Akiko Kana
Votes: 90
18. Hakkodasan (1977)
169 min | Drama
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army tackled Mount Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
Director: Shirô Moritani | Stars: Shôgo Shimada, Ken Takakura, Hideji Ôtaki, Kin'ya Kitaôji
Votes: 215
19. Chronicle of My Mother (2011)
108 min | Drama
Based on an autobiographical novel by Inoue Yasushi, the film chronicles the passage of fifteen years within a family struggling with abandonment, resentment and decline with old age. As ... See full summary »
Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Kaho Minami, Aoi Miyazaki, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 496
20. Zatoichi at Large (1972)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Action, Adventure
On the road, Zatoichi meets a dying pregnant woman and delivers the child moments before she passes. Honor bound, he sets out to find the next-of-kin who he discovers have their own problems.
Director: Kazuo Mori | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Rentarô Mikuni, Hisaya Morishige, Etsushi Takahashi
Votes: 1,103
21. The Revolutionary (1962)
100 min | Biography, Drama, History
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.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Hashizô Ôkawa, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Satomi Oka, Rentarô Mikuni
Votes: 207
22. Coup d'Etat (1973)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Yasuo Miyake, Akiko Kurano, Tadahiko Sugano
Votes: 537
23. Sekigahara (1981 TV Movie)
420 min | Drama, History
Directors: Shin'ichi Kamoshita, Ichiro Takahashi | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Gô Katô, Rentarô Mikuni, Toshirô Mifune
Votes: 20
24. Ikitoshi ikeru mono (1955)
117 min
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Sô Yamamura
25. Taiheiyô no washi (1953)
119 min | Drama, History, War
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He ... See full summary »
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi, Masao Shimizu, Eijirô Yanagi
Votes: 124
26. Gô-hime (1992)
142 min | Drama, History
Chronicles the trials and tribulations of Oribe, the successor to tea-master Rikyu, Usu, his gardener, and Princess Goh, who attempt to balance artistic expression and duty amid political intrigue in feudal Japan.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Rie Miyazawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiya Nagasawa, Kôshirô Matsumoto
Votes: 272
27. Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In a town where debt-ridden peasants are being ruthlessly exploited, Zatoichi is forced to take sides between a cruel yakuza boss and his seemingly altruistic rival.
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Rentarô Mikuni, Kô Nishimura, Yûko Hamada
Votes: 1,375
28. Wife (1953)
89 min | Drama
Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa's ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Each knows the other isn't happy, they themselves aren't happy, but they don't talk about their problems ... See full summary »
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama
Votes: 344
29. Mushukunin-betsuchô (1963)
118 min | Action
Director: Kazuo Inoue | Stars: Keiji Sada, Rentarô Mikuni, Mariko Okada, Takahiro Tamura
Votes: 21
30. My Sons (1991)
121 min | Drama, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Masatoshi Nagase, Emi Wakui, Mieko Harada
Votes: 351
31. The Street of Desire (1984)
125 min | Drama
A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.
Director: Haruhiko Mimura | Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Yûko Natori, Rentarô Mikuni, Tsunehiko Watase
Votes: 19
32. The Outcast (1962)
119 min | Drama
A young man struggles to come to terms with his true identity in a remote caste-based village in early 20th century Japan.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Shiho Fujimura, Hiroyuki Nagato, Rentarô Mikuni
Votes: 215
33. Miyamoto Musashi (1961)
Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Drama, History
The film begins when the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi is still named Shinmen Takezo. After being on the losing side of the Battle of Sekigahara, Takezo and his friend manage to escape and come across a young woman and her mother.
Director: Tomu Uchida | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Akiko Kazami, Wakaba Irie, Isao Kimura
Votes: 280
34. Saraba Rabauru (1954)
106 min | War, Romance
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots at a lonely Rabaul airbase realises that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little regard for... See full summary »
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni, Chieko Nakakita
Votes: 63
35. The Battle of Manchuria (1970)
197 min | Action, War
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Kei Yamamoto, Hideki Takahashi, Mizuho Suzuki, Shinsuke Ashida
Votes: 65
36. The Last Dance (1993)
116 min | Comedy, Drama
A successful Japanese movie director in his 60s becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. His family, friends, and doctor try to keep the secret of his terminal cancer from... See full summary »
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Masahiko Tsugawa, Nobuko Miyamoto, Yoshiki Arizono
Votes: 300
37. Ôkami to buta to ningen (1964)
95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A lonely gangster tries recruiting men to plunder a respected and powerful gang.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Ken Takakura, Rentarô Mikuni, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Shinjirô Ebara
Votes: 170
38. A Promise (1986)
123 min | Drama
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Orie Satô, Sachiko Murase
Votes: 183
39. The Catch (1961)
105 min | Drama, War
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their "catch."
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Akiko Koyama, Yôko Mihara, Masako Nakamura
Votes: 308
40. Sword for Hire (1952)
135 min | Action, Drama, Adventure
The adventures of a few brave men and women who are scattered around Japan after the siege of a castle, during the wars of the Sengoku period.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Rentarô Mikuni, Danshirô Ichikawa, Shirley Yamaguchi
Votes: 200
41. Ikitai (1999)
119 min | Drama
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Shinobu Ôtake, Akira Emoto, Hideko Yoshida
Votes: 138
42. The Go Masters (1982)
123 min | Drama, History, War
Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely described as an Asian version of chess)... See full summary »
Directors: Ji-shun Duan, Jun'ya Satô, Shu'an Liu | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Misako Konno, Nobuko Otowa, Hideji Ôtaki
Votes: 196
43. Turning Point (1994)
118 min | Drama
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "Women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Masahiko Tsugawa, Morio Kazama, Miki Fujitani
Votes: 56
44. Jade Cocoon: Story of Tamamayu (1998 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Family
Levant is a young boy from a village Syrus. Long time ago the country was cursed by a powerful spirit. Since then the forests around Syrus are populated by monsters. Levant's father was a ... See full summary »
Director: Gaku Tamura | Stars: Chris Berthelot, Yôsuke Akimoto, Catherine Battistone, John Bigooty
Votes: 59
45. Night Drum (1958)
95 min | Drama
When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. However, the woman's husband blames himself for his wife's ... See full summary »
Director: Tadashi Imai | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Ineko Arima, Masayuki Mori, Sumiko Hidaka
Votes: 162
46. My Wonderful Yellow Car (1953)
83 min | Drama
Director: Senkichi Taniguchi | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Hisako Yamane, Sô Yamamura, Fubuki Koshiji
Votes: 50
47. Kiri-no-hata (1977)
95 min | Drama, Mystery
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top ... See full summary »
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa | Stars: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Rentarô Mikuni, Hiroshi Sekiguchi
Votes: 71
48. Miyamoto Musashi V: Duel at Ganryu Island (1965)
Not Rated | 121 min | Action, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Tomu Uchida | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Ken Takakura, Wakaba Irie, Chieko Naniwa
Votes: 182
49. Tabi no omosa (1972)
91 min | Drama
A 16-year-old girl grows into maturity while hiking the 88-temple pilgrimage around Shikoku.
Director: Kôichi Saitô | Stars: Yôko Takahashi, Kyôko Kishida, Hideo Sunazuka, Rie Yokoyama
Votes: 199
50. Shinran: Path to Purity (1987)
140 min | Drama
In the 12th century, a young man explores the different schools of Buddhism.
Director: Rentarô Mikuni | Stars: Junkyu Moriyama, Michiyo Yasuda, Ako, Kazuo Andô
Votes: 24