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An Autumn Afternoon
: : Deceptively breezy, Yasujiro Ozu's final film, made in 1962, is the lovely culmination of the mysterious writer-director's fascination with family, and the social mechanisms by which different generations fulfill obligations to one another and to themselves. The central character, Shuhei Hirayama (Chishu Ryu, Ozu's longtime collaborator), is a 60-ish executive and widower who slowly grows concerned that his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko (Shima Iwashita), has not married because she feels responsible for taking care of him at home. Taciturn, low-key, but affable, Shuhei is a hard man to read. But through his friendships, ...
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A Taxing Woman
:Description:Barjo is a slightly psychotic story of love and life in the modern world and beyond. Fanfan lives with her husband Charles and their two daughters in a stark, modern house in suburbia. Her nerdy twin brother Barjo lives nearby, busily waiting for the UFOs to come that will signal the end of the world.
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Samurai II - Duel at Ichijoji Temple
:Description:Recounting the education of the legendary Musashi Miyamoto, the Samurai Trilogy's second film depicts his wanderings through the turmoil of 17th-century Japan in search of both the skill and temperament worthy of a great warrior. Facing an onslaught of foes eager to test his reputation, he discovers that death-dealing blows are the least of what he must learn. Toshiro Mifune puts in another top-notch performance as the swordsman who gradually transforms himself from a skilled neophyte into a master warrior. :Picking up where Samurai I left off, Toshirô Mifune's samurai in training Musashi ...
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Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto
:Description:Winner of the Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film, and hailed as one of the most visually stirring movies of the 1950s, Samurai I follows the formative years of Musashi Miyamoto, Japan's most famous swordsman, as he goes off to a civil war in search of glory but finds defeat and shame instead. Toshiro Mifune's Miyamoto is spellbinding, and his performance here rivals his work in Seven Samurai. The first film in Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy unlocks the beautiful and savage world of the samurai as few other films have. :Toshirô Mifune ...
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The Samurai Trilogy
:Description:Capturing the samurai warrior spirit in all its glory, Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy is a monumental epic relating the exploits of Musashi Miyamoto, the most famous of all Japanese swordsmen. Similar to American Westerns in story and structure, the Samurai Trilogy has been critically acclaimed for its exciting action/battle sequences and stunning color photography. :Toshirô Mifune is confidence supreme and humility incarnate as the mature samurai master Musashi Miyamoto in the final film of Inagaki's sprawling trilogy. Now a legendary swordsman whose latest quest is to save an isolated village from rampaging brigands (shades ...
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Samurai III - Duel at Ganryu Island
:Description:The most exciting and tension filled of Inagaki's trilogy, Duel at Ganryu Island provides samurai fans with some of the most scintillating swordplay and battle sequences ever filmed. It is the final showdown for Musashi Miyamoto and his arch-rival Kojiro Sasaki. Favorably compared to both Cool Hand Luke and Shane when it was first released, Samurai III brings this great epic to a close with its famous sunset scene--a stunning visual climax both in terms of action and photography. :Toshirô Mifune is confidence supreme and humility incarnate as the mature samurai master Musashi ...
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Musashi Miyamoto
: :Toshirô Mifune defines the quintessential samurai in Hiroshi Inagaki's 1954 Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, the first feature in a trilogy based on the epic novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. As in Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai, which appeared the same year, Mifune plays a brash and ambitious peasant who desires fame and power as a swordsman. His dreams of glory in war sour when his army is routed and he becomes hunted by the authorities, but the 'tough love' attentions of a kindly but severe monk help him develop from a hot-tempered outlaw to a ...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
: :Picking up where Samurai I left off, Toshirô Mifune's samurai in training Musashi Miyamoto is a wandering swordsman who hones his skills in a succession of duels. When he defeats a succession of students from a local school of martial arts, he becomes marked for death by the school elders and is attacked in a series of cowardly ambushes. Romantic threads from the first film become further complicated when the virginal Otsu (Kaoru Yachigusa) and the sad courtesan Akemi (Mariko Okada) meet and discover their rivalry and Musashi earns himself an archenemy, an ...
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Escape from Hell
: :Picking up where Samurai I left off, Toshirô Mifune's samurai in training Musashi Miyamoto is a wandering swordsman who hones his skills in a succession of duels. When he defeats a succession of students from a local school of martial arts, he becomes marked for death by the school elders and is attacked in a series of cowardly ambushes. Romantic threads from the first film become further complicated when the virginal Otsu (Kaoru Yachigusa) and the sad courtesan Akemi (Mariko Okada) meet and discover their rivalry and Musashi earns himself an archenemy, an ...
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Escape From Hell
: :Picking up where Samurai I left off, Toshirô Mifune's samurai in training Musashi Miyamoto is a wandering swordsman who hones his skills in a succession of duels. When he defeats a succession of students from a local school of martial arts, he becomes marked for death by the school elders and is attacked in a series of cowardly ambushes. Romantic threads from the first film become further complicated when the virginal Otsu (Kaoru Yachigusa) and the sad courtesan Akemi (Mariko Okada) meet and discover their rivalry and Musashi earns himself an archenemy, an ...
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