In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

1960

Japanese

7.3

♡ 7

Mikio Naruse Director

Akira Takarada as Reiji Sakanishi, the younger son

Hideko Takamine as Sakanishi Kazuko, Yuichiro's wife

Setsuko Hara as Sanae Sakanoshi, the eldest daughter

Hiroshi Tachikawa as Shin Asabuki

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.

Fighting Elegy

1966

Japanese

6.9

♡ 2

74%

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

Comedy

Drama

roman catholic

roman catholic church

sexual repression

young love

youth gang

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Yûsuke Kawazu as Suppon 'Turtle'

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

I Live in Fear

1955

Japanese

7.3

♡ 13

73%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Akemi Negishi as Asako Kuribayashi

Toshirô Mifune as Kiichi Nakajima

Eijirô Tôno as Old man from Brazil

Hiroshi Tachikawa as Ryoichi Sayama

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared incompetent, a family-court counselor witnesses his obsession slide into ruin—and asks whether ignoring the atomic threat is any saner.

Chushingura

1962

Japanese

7.5

♡ 6

Hiroshi Inagaki Director

Hiroshi Tachikawa as Aminori Uesugi

Toshirô Mifune as Genba Tawaraboshi

Akira Takarada as Gunbei Takada

Setsuko Hara as Riku

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

Hazardous Graduation

1970

Japanese

5.2

♡ 1

Action

Comedy

Crime

Yukihiro Sawada Director

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Seizaburô Kawazu as

Ichirô Sugai as

Yuki Jôno as

Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.

Story of a Prostitute

1965

Japanese

7.3

♡ 5

81%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Yumiko Nogawa as Harumi

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!

1963

Japanese

6.8

♡ 2

61%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Nobuo Kaneko as Inspector Kumagai

Yûko Kusunoki as Misa

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.

Teenage Yakuza

1962

Japanese

6.0

♡ 8

Action

Crime

Drama

Seijun Suzuki Director

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Kotoe Hatsui as

Zenji Yamada as

Yûzô Kiura as

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

1963

Japanese

7.0

♡ 5

Action

based on novel or book

Kihachi Okamoto Director

Tatsuyoshi Ehara as

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Eijirô Tôno as

Tadao Nakamaru as

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

Matango

1963

Japanese

6.4

♡ 15

Ishirô Honda Director

Keiji Sakakida as Club Waiter

Hiroshi Tachikawa as Etsurô Yoshida - Writer

Kumi Mizuno as Mami Sekiguchi - Singer

Kenji Sahara as Senzô Koyama - Sailor

Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei's yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew. Soon they discover something unfriendly there...

Throne of Blood

1957

Japanese

8.0

♡ 55

96%

93%

Action

ambition

based on novel or book

Akira Kurosawa Director

Hiroshi Tachikawa as Kunimaru Tsuzuki

Isuzu Yamada as Lady Asaji Washizu

Toshirô Mifune as Taketoki Washizu

Yoshio Inaba as Third Military Commander

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

Sanjuro

1962

Japanese

8.0

♡ 75

100%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Reiko Dan as Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter

Hiroshi Tachikawa as Samurai

Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Samurai

Toshirô Mifune as Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The Samurai

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

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Gorath

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Fighting Elegy

I Live in Fear

Chushingura

Hazardous Graduation

Story of a Prostitute

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!

Teenage Yakuza

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

Matango

Throne of Blood

Sanjuro