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Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1954 IMDB Rating: 8.6

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend...

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High and Low

High and Low

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1963 IMDB Rating: 8.4

A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted over whether he should pay the ransom.

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Yojimbo

Yojimbo

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1961 IMDB Rating: 8.2

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabata...

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Rashomon

Rashomon

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1950 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashba...

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The Hidden Fortress

The Hidden Fortress

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1958 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Japanese peasants Matashichi and Tahei try and fail to make a profit from a tribal war. They find a man and woman whom they believe are simple tribe members hiding in a fortress. Although the peasants...

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Throne of Blood

Throne of Blood

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1957 IMDB Rating: 8.1

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...

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Kagemusha

Kagemusha

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his g...

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Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1970 IMDB Rating: 7.5

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead...

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The Quiet Duel

The Quiet Duel

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1949 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Toshirō Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father's (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when...

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Dodes'ka-den

Dodes'ka-den

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1970 IMDB Rating: 7.3

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son env...

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