Search results for "Rentaro Mikuni"
Ultimate Blitzkrieg – The WW2 Battle of Crete

Ultimate Blitzkrieg – The WW2 Battle of Crete

Ultimate Blitzkrieg – The WW2 Battle of Crete
TMDb: 7.4
N/A

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman’s interest.

Status: Released
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Fugitive from the Past

A Fugitive from the Past

A Fugitive from the Past
IMDb: 7.9
183

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman’s interest.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Basara: Princess Goh

Basara: Princess Goh

Basara: Princess Goh
IMDb: 6.8
142

Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of…

Genre: Drama, History
Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights
IMDb: 7
143

Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffers the fate of…

Genre: Drama
Vengeance Is Mine

Vengeance Is Mine

Vengeance Is Mine
IMDb: 7.7
140

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Himiko

Himiko

Himiko
IMDb: 7
100

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.

Genre: Drama, History
Profound Desires of the Gods

Profound Desires of the Gods

Profound Desires of the Gods
IMDb: 7.5
173

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.

Genre: Drama
The Catch

The Catch

The Catch
IMDb: 6.8
105

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with…

Genre: Drama, War
Stepbrothers

Stepbrothers

Stepbrothers
IMDb: 7.2
110

1957 film directed by Miyoji Ieki. Winner of the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

Genre: Drama
The Song of the Cart

The Song of the Cart

The Song of the Cart
IMDb: 7.6
145

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

Genre: Drama
Captive’s Island

Captive’s Island

Captive’s Island
IMDb: 7
87

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when…

The Broken Commandment

The Broken Commandment

The Broken Commandment
IMDb: 6.8
119

Ushimatsu’s father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.

Genre: Drama
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
IMDb: 6.3
112

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Thus Another Day

Thus Another Day

Thus Another Day
IMDb: 6.8
73

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Coup d’Etat

Coup d’Etat

Coup d’Etat
IMDb: 6.8
110

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

Genre: Drama, History
Kwaidan

Kwaidan

Kwaidan
IMDb: 8
183

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…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The Burmese Harp

The Burmese Harp

The Burmese Harp
IMDb: 8.1
116

In the War’s closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

Genre: Drama, Music, War
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
IMDb: 7.5
93

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

Fireworks Over the Sea

Fireworks Over the Sea

Fireworks Over the Sea
IMDb: 5.9
122

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Genre: Drama
Boyhood

Boyhood

Boyhood
IMDb: 6.8
110

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

Genre: Drama, War
Wife

Wife

Wife
IMDb: 6.9
96

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband’s lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can’t treat herself and the husband finds the…

Genre: Drama
Rikyu

Rikyu

Rikyu
IMDb: 7.1
135

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord,…

Genre: Drama