Direction: Hiroshi Inagaki

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Hideko Takamine · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Choko Iida

Plot 1958: Venice Film Festiva: Golden Lion. Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy,...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Rentarô Mikuni · Kuroemon Onoe · Kaoru Yachigusa

Plot With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town's wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle. After their side loses, they seek shelter...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Tatsuya Mihashi · Akira Takarada · Koshiro Matsumoto

Plot A young lord attempts to combat the official corruption endemic to the Shogunate, only to be placed in an impossible conflict of duties. He refuses to bribe a Chancelor who...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Koji Tsuruta · Kaoru Yachigusa · Mariko Okada

Plot A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Eijirô Tono · Ko Mihashi · Kunimori Kodo

Plot After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yoshiko Sakuma · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yujiro Ishihara

Plot Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Kyoji Sugi

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Koji Tsuruta · Yoshiko Kuga · Mariko Okada

Plot In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Tsukasa · Akihiko Hirata · Kyôko Kagawa

Plot The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor Keikoh's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Nobuko Otowa · Makoto Satô · Ryo Tamura

Plot Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved,...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Toshirô Mifune · Nobuko Otowa · Yoshiko Kuga

Plot In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Shintarô Katsu

Plot In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Tsukasa · Akira Takarada · Keiko Awaji

Plot Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yuriko Hoshi · Yoshiko Kuga

Plot Mohei is a wandering samurai, lost in grief and despair after his family is wiped out. He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him and...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Shogoro Ichikawa · Ryu Kuze · Yosuke Natsuki

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Setsuko Hara · Yosuke Natsuki · Chiemi Eri

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Naoe Fushimi · Michisaburo Segawa · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Shogoro Ichikawa · Yuriko Hoshi · Mayumi Ozora · Ichirô Arishima

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Takashi Shimura

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Naoe Fushimi · Fujiko Hamaguchi · Fudeko Tanaka