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7.1

♡ 4

67%

based on novel or book

Mikio Naruse Director

Mieko Takamine as Mihoko Nakagawa

Sanae Takasugi as Setsuko Sakurai

Rentarô Mikuni as Tadashi Tanimura

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Taeko Niemura

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.

Zatoichi the Outlaw

1967

7.0

♡ 7

56%

Satsuo Yamamoto Director

Rentarô Mikuni as Asagoro

Tatsuo Endô as Boss Tomizo

Mizuho Suzuki as Shusui Ohara

Kenjirô Ishiyama as Tatsugoro

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.

Thus Another Day

1959

6.6

♡ 5

Romance

Keisuke Kinoshita Director

Rentarô Mikuni as Kenzô Akada

Takahiro Tamura as Tetsuo Mori

Murasaki Fujima as Tomoe Takemura

Shizue Natsukawa as Yasuko's mother

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man...

Boyhood

1951

6.8

♡ 2

Keisuke Kinoshita Director

Chishû Ryû as Father

Eiko Miyoshi as General store lady

Akira Ishihama as Ichirô

Rentarô Mikuni as Teacher Shimomura

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

1969

6.9

♡ 11

Tadashi Sawashima Director

Toshirô Mifune as Isami Kondo

Rentarô Mikuni as Kamo Serizawa

Takahiro Tamura as Koshitaro Ito

Yumiko Nogawa as Oume

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Shogunate. But bloodshed and treachery lurk around every corner.

Rikyu

1989

7.1

♡ 5

76%

Hiroshi Teshigahara Director

Sayoko Yamaguchi as Chieha, his mistress

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Hideyoshi Toyotomi

Rentarô Mikuni as Rikyu

Hideo Kanze as Rikyu's brother in law

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord, unifying the country.

Zen-ma

1951

6.4

♡ 3

Keisuke Kinoshita Director

Rentarô Mikuni as Rentarô Mikuni, news reporter

Toshinosuke Nagao as Staff

Koreya Senda as Tsuyoshi Kitaura

Masayuki Mori as Yoshio Nakanuma

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

The Eagle of the Pacific

1953

6.9

♡ 5

Ishirô Honda Director

Koreya Senda as

Toshirô Mifune as 1st Lieutenant Tomonaga

Eijirô Yanagi as Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai

Rentarô Mikuni as Staff Officer

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 opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.

The Inugami Family

1976

7.1

♡ 9

based on novel or book

Kon Ichikawa Director

Mieko Takamine as Matsuko Inugami

Rentarô Mikuni as Sahei Inugami

Takeshi Katô as Tachibana - Police Chief

Yôko Shimada as Tamayo Nonomiya

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.

Punishment Island

1966

7.0

♡ 4

Mystery

Masahiro Shinoda Director

Kei Satô as

Taiji Tonoyama as

Shima Iwashita as Aya, Daigoku's daughter

Rentarô Mikuni as Daigoku

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman

The Outcast

1962

6.9

♡ 3

95%

based on novel or book

buraku discrimination

Kon Ichikawa Director

Eiji Funakoshi as Keinoshin Kazama

Shiho Fujimura as Oshiho

Rentarô Mikuni as Rentaro Inoko

Raizô Ichikawa as Ushimatsu Segawa

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.

Ballad of the Cart

1959

7.2

♡ 7

Satsuo Yamamoto Director

Yoshio Inaba as Fujitaro

Kô Nishimura as Hatsuzo

Rentarô Mikuni as Moichi

Teruko Kishi as Mother-in-law

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

Ibo kyoudai

1957

7.3

♡ 3

Miyoji Ieki Director

Rentarô Mikuni as Hantaro Kido

Hizuru Takachiho as Haru, the maid

Tomo'o Nagai as The regimental commander

Katsuo Nakamura as Tomohide, the fourth son

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946. Winner of the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

The Catch

1961

6.8

♡ 4

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Akiko Koyama as Hiroko Ishii

Sadako Sawamura as Katsu, Kazumasa's wife

Rentarô Mikuni as Kazumasa Takano

Teruko Kishi as Masu Tsukada

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'.

Gô-hime

1992

6.8

♡ 5

Hiroshi Teshigahara Director

Rentarô Mikuni as Junsai

Yûsuke Kawazu as Katsushige Itakura

Tatsuya Nakadai as Oribe Furuta

Rie Miyazawa as Princess Goh

Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.

Profound Desires of the Gods

1968

7.5

♡ 3

Shôhei Imamura Director

Chikako Hosokawa as

Chôichirô Kawarasaki as Kametaro Futori / the backward son

Kazuo Kitamura as Kariya / Engineer

Rentarô Mikuni as Nekichi Futori / the chained son

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.

Chronicle of My Mother

2011

based on memoir or autobiography

7.2

♡ 3

1950s

emotionally distant

forgetfulness

semi autobiographical

Masato Harada Director

Tateto Serizawa as (as Okito Serizawa)

Rentarô Mikuni as Hayato

Tomomi Satô as Nipponmaru sailor

Takahiro Miura as Segawa

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.

Zatoichi at Large

1972

6.8

♡ 5

67%

Kazuo Mori Director

Keizô Kanie as

Rentarô Mikuni as Boss Tetsugoro

Hisaya Morishige as Constable Tobei

Renji Ishibashi as Gunroku

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her cruel fate.

A Fugitive from the Past

1965

7.9

♡ 5

96%

Tomu Uchida Director

Osamu Yamanouchi as

Ken Takakura as Ajimura

Kôsaku Okano as Detective Tonami

Rentarô Mikuni as Takichi Inukai aka Kyôichirô Tarumi

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.

The Burmese Harp

1956