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.

Kurenai no nagareboshi

1967

Japanese

6.7

♡ 1

Toshio Masuda Director

Akira Takahashi as

Takeshi Yoshida as

Ruriko Asaoka as

Zenji Yamada as

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man. They develop a strange bond while unbeknown to Goro, another hitman is after him for the job he did in Tokyo.

Akai hankachi

1964

Japanese

6.8

♡ 2

Action

Crime

Toshio Masuda Director

Shinsuke Ashida as

Ruriko Asaoka as

Nobuo Kaneko as

Hideaki Nitani as

A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.

Shadow Hunters

1972

Japanese

6.3

♡ 3

96%

Action

Adventure

Crime

Toshio Masuda Director

Bumon Kahara as

Isao Tamagawa as

Kiyoshi Kamoda as

Ruriko Asaoka as Chitose

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.

Genji monogatari

1966

Japanese

6.0

♡ 4

Kon Ichikawa Director

Izumi Ashikawa as

Ruriko Asaoka as

Kotobuki Hananomoto as

Chôjûrô Hanakawa as

An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the one object of desire he must never obtain: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic consequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another, always seeking some sort of completion to his life.

Alone on the Pacific

1963

Japanese

7.0

♡ 4

Action

Adventure

based on memoir or autobiography

Kon Ichikawa Director

Kôichi Uenoyama as

Sanpei Mine as

Masayuki Mori as Youth's Father

Ruriko Asaoka as Youth's Sister

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning, many unforeseen events will test his determination.