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Rentaro Mikuni
Rentaro Mikuni (1923-2013) was a Japanese actor known for his roles in classics such as The Human Condition and Samurai Trilogy. He also directed and wrote screenplays for films. Mikuni won numerous awards, including the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1970 for his role in Sunflower.
Titles credited to Rentaro Mikuni
怪談
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is...
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復讐するは我にあり
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
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宮本武蔵
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
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座頭市牢破り
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.
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座頭市御用旅
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 a...
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戒厳令
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
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