Safari 5000

1969

Japanese

5.9

♡ 8

Action

Adventure

Koreyoshi Kurahara Director

Ruriko Asaoka as

Tatsuya Nakadai as

Toshirô Mifune as

Jûzô Itami as

A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enlisted to race in an annual endurance race, The East African Safari Rally. Peripheral to this is the story concerning Godai's former lover Yuko (Ruriko Asaoka), a fashion designer, and her friend Anna (Emmanuel Riva), who happens to be Pierre's wife.

Snow Trail

1947

Japanese

7.2

♡ 2

Senkichi Taniguchi Director

Taizô Fukami as Chief Detective

Toshirô Mifune as Eijima

Kokuten Kôdô as Haruko's Grandfather

Akitake Kôno as Honda

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.

Samurai Saga

1959

Japanese

6.9

♡ 3

Action

Drama

Romance

Hiroshi Inagaki Director

Kichijirô Ueda as

Toshirô Mifune as Heihachiro Komaki

Akira Takarada as Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe

Seizaburô Kawazu as Nagashima

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.

The Battle of Port Arthur

1980

Japanese

6.6

♡ 4

Toshio Masuda Director

Yoshio Inaba as

Toshirô Mifune as Emperor Meiji

Tatsuya Nakadai as General Nogi

Hisaya Morishige as Hirobumi Ito

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.

Red Lion

1969

Japanese

6.9

♡ 5

76%

government corruption

imperial japan

jidaigeki

sword fight

Kihachi Okamoto Director

Toshirô Mifune as Gonzo

Nobuko Otowa as Oharu

Kawai Okada as Osode

Takahiro Tamura as Sozo Sagara

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.

Samurai Assassin

1965

Japanese

7.4

♡ 13

83%

Action

Adventure

based on a true story

based on novel or book

based on true story

Drama

historically inaccurate

History

japan

samurai

Kihachi Okamoto Director

Yoshio Inaba as Keijiro Sumita

Eijirô Tôno as Masagorô Kisoya

Tadao Nakamaru as Shigezo Inada

Toshirô Mifune as Tsuruchiyo Niiro

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

1969

Japanese

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.

Nihon no Don: Kanketsuhen

1978

Japanese

6.7

♡ 6

Action

Crime

Drama

Sadao Nakajima Director

Nobuo Kaneko as Hirayama

Toshirô Mifune as Kosuke Oishi

Yoshio Inaba as Satomi

Sayoko Ninomiya as Toshiko Ichinomiya

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

Battle Anthem

1983

Japanese

6.5

♡ 3

Toshio Masuda Director

Toshirô Mifune as Admiral Heihachiro Togo

Sayoko Ninomiya as Chika

Yoshio Inaba as Kamimura

Kôichi Satô as Yusaku Ogami

The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.

Bakumatsu

1970

Japanese

6.0

♡ 5

Daisuke Itô Director

Hiroshi Aoyama as Bensai

Sayuri Yoshinaga as Oryo

Tatsuya Nakadai as Shintaro Nakaoka

Toshirô Mifune as Shojiro Goto

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.

The Big Boss

1959

Japanese

6.5

♡ 3

Kihachi Okamoto Director

Tadao Nakamaru as

Yôsuke Natsuki as Kashimura's assistant

Toshirô Mifune as Kashimura, the mechanic.

Akira Takarada as Mineo Komatsu

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.

The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

1979

Japanese

5.9

♡ 3

Nobuhiko Ôbayashi Director

Shinsaku Himeda as

Hideko Yoshida as Fumie Akechi

Toshirô Mifune as Kindaichi from Future

Tôru Minegishi as Visitor in the Eyes

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.

The Hidden Fortress

1958

Japanese

8.0

♡ 50

96%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Takeshi Katô as Fleeing, bloody samurai

Toshirô Mifune as General Rokurota Makabe

Kichijirô Ueda as Slave Trader

Tadao Nakamaru as Young Man

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

The Eagle of the Pacific

1953

Japanese

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 Life of Oharu

1952

Japanese

8.1

♡ 19

100%

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Eijirô Yanagi as Forger

Toshirô Mifune as Katsunosuke

Hisako Yamane as Lady Matsudaira

Masao Mishima as Taisaburo Hishiya

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Daredevil in the Castle

1961

Japanese

6.3

♡ 3

Hiroshi Inagaki Director

Yôsuke Natsuki as Chomonshu Kimura

Tadao Nakamaru as Hyogo

Toshirô Mifune as Mohei

Isuzu Yamada as Yodogami

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei's daredevil skills will be put to severe tests.

The Quiet Duel

1949

Japanese

7.3

♡ 13

74%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Takashi Shimura as Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki

Toshirô Mifune as Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki

Isamu Yamaguchi as Patrolman Nosaka

Kenjirô Uemura as Susumu Nakada

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats himself in secret and breaks off his engagement rather than risk his fiancée’s future, even as he confronts the irresponsible patient who infected him—testing his ethics, pride, and capacity for sacrifice.

Kiganjô no bôken

1966

Japanese

6.1

♡ 5

Senkichi Taniguchi Director

Tadao Nakamaru as Ensai

Jun Tazaki as Innkeeper

Toshirô Mifune as Osami

Toshio Kurosawa as Yoshio

Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in the Middle East, where they find intrigue and romance in the court of an evil king.