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Ran
(乱)
The Greatest Shakespeare Film
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, France • 1985
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki
- Genre Action, Drama, History
- Available on Kanopy
Yojimbo
(用心棒)
A ronin comes to a town divided between two gangs and decides to play them off each other to his advantage.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1961
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Seizaburō Kawazu
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
High and Low
(天国と地獄)
A wealthy executive becomes the victim of an extortion plot after his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1963
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura, Kenjirō Ishiyama
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Harakiri
(切腹)
The world has never understood why the Japanese prefer death to dishonor. This winner of Prix Special du Jury at Cannes 1963 provides the answer!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1962
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentarou Mikuni, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama, Yoshio Inaba
- Genre Action, Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Kagemusha
(影武者)
A petty thief must impersonate a powerful warlord in order to lead his troops to battle.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, United States • 1980
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Jinpachi Nezu, Takashi Shimura, Kenichi Hagiwara
- Genre Action, Drama, History, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Wolves
(出所祝い)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1971
- Director Hideo Gosha
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Noboru Andô, Komaki Kurihara, Kyōko Enami, Toshio Kurosawa, Isao Natsuyagi
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
A Woman's Life
(女の歴史)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1963
- Director Mikio Naruse
- Cast Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Natsuko Kahara
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Belladonna of Sadness
(哀しみのベラドンナ)
A peasant woman is ravished on her wedding night and makes a pact with the Devil to get revenge.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1973
- Director Eiichi Yamamoto
- Cast Aiko Nagayama, Tatsuya Nakadai, Takao Ito, Masaya Takahashi, Shigako Shimegi
- Genre Animation, Drama, Fantasy
- Available on Google Play Movies, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Kill!
(斬る)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1968
- Director Kihachi Okamoto
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Etsushi Takahashi, Yuriko Hoshi, Tadao Nakamaru, Akira Kubo, Shigeru Kôyama
- Genre Action, Comedy
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
(人間の條件 完結篇)
Love is the Condition for Being Human
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1961
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura, Yūsuke Kawazu, Chishū Ryū, Taketoshi Naitô
- Genre War, Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel
Daichi no Ko
(大地の子)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, China • 1995
- Creator Toyoko Yamasaki
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Takaya Kamikawa, Mariko Nakai, Jiang Wenli, Lü Zhong, Zhu Xu
- Genre War & Politics, Family, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
(人間の條件 第１部純愛篇／第２部激怒篇)
A Japanese pacifist and socialist struggles to accommodate the demands of his country during wartime.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1959
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima, Sō Yamamura, Akira Ishihama
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
(人間の條件 第３部望郷篇／第４部戦雲篇)
First Sequel of an Anti-War Masterpiece
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1959
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kokinji Katsura, Jun Tatara, Michirô Minami, Kei Satō
- Genre War, Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
(女が階段を上る時)
A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1960
- Director Mikio Naruse
- Cast Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katō, Ganjirô Nakamura II
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Sanjuro
(椿三十郎)
Akira Kurosawa's Powerful and Newest Japanese Masterpiece
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1962
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama, Reiko Dan, Takashi Shimura
- Genre Drama, Action, Comedy
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Hachiko
(ハチ公物語)
Love between a dog and his master. A story of devotion, which transcends time and space.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1987
- Director Seijiro Koyama
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mako Ishino, Masumi Harukawa, Taiji Tonoyama, Yoshi Katō
- Genre Drama, Family
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Sword of Doom
(大菩薩峠)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1966
- Director Kihachi Okamoto
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama, Michiyo Aratama, Yōko Naitō, Toshirō Mifune, Tadao Nakamaru
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
The Face of Another
(他人の顔)
A man with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1966
- Director Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Machiko Kyō, Mikijiro Hira, Kyōko Kishida, Eiji Okada, Miki Irie
- Genre Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Criterion Channel
After the Rain
(雨あがる)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, France • 1999
- Director Takashi Koizumi
- Cast Akira Terao, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Shirō Mifune, Hisashi Igawa, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Goyokin
(御用金)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1969
- Director Hideo Gosha
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsurō Tamba, Yōko Tsukasa, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Ruriko Asaoka, Kunie Tanaka
- Genre Drama, Action
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Samurai Banners
(風林火山)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2007
- Creator
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Sukekiyo Kameyama, Gackt Camui, Misa Shimizu, Miyoko Asada, Asami Mizukawa
- Genre Drama, War & Politics
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Tenchu!
(人斬り)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1969
- Director Hideo Gosha
- Cast Shintarō Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûjirô Ishihara, Yukio Mishima, Mitsuko Baisho, Takumi Shinjo
- Genre History, Action, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Cash Calls Hell
(五匹の紳士)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1966
- Director Hideo Gosha
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Hisashi Igawa, Mikijirō Hira, Hideyo Amamoto, Chiyo Aoi, Kunie Tanaka
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Apple TV
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
(娘・妻・母)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1960
- Director Mikio Naruse
- Cast Setsuko Hara, Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Takarada, Hiroshi Koizumi, Reiko Dan
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Inn of Evil
(いのちぼうにふろう)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1971
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Komaki Kurihara, Wakako Sakai, Shigeru Kôyama, Kei Satō, Ichirô Nakatani
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Fort Graveyard
(血と砂)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1965
- Director Kihachi Okamoto
- Cast Toshiro Mifune, Makoto Satō, Reiko Dan, Yūnosuke Itō, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Inheritance
(からみ合い)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1962
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Keiko Kishi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Sō Yamamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yūsuke Kawazu, Mari Yoshimura
- Genre Drama, Crime
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Other Woman
(妻として女として)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1961
- Director Mikio Naruse
- Cast Hideko Takamine, Chikage Awashima, Masayuki Mori, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yuriko Hoshi, Kumi Mizuno
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
(座頭市あばれ火祭り)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1970
- Director Kenji Misumi
- Cast Shintarō Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai, Reiko Ôhara, Masayuki Mori, Shinnosuke Ikehata, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
- Genre Adventure, Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Immortal Love
(永遠の人)
While her fiancée is away fighting, a woman is raped by a landowner's son and forced into marriage.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1961
- Director Keisuke Kinoshita
- Cast Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Nobuko Otowa, Akira Ishihama, Masakazu Tamura
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
Giovanni's Island
(ジョバンニの島)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2014
- Director Mizuho Nishikubo
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Yukie Nakama, Yusuke Santamaria, Kaoru Yachigusa, Kota Yokoyama, Junya Taniai
- Genre Animation, Drama, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Pluto TV
Black River
(黒い河)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1957
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Fumio Watanabe, Ineko Arima, Tatsuya Nakadai, Asao Sano, Seiji Miyaguchi, Eijirō Tōno
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Age of Assassins
(殺人狂時代)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1967
- Director Kihachi Okamoto
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Reiko Dan, Hideo Sunazuka, Hideyo Amamoto, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Yasuzō Ogawa
- Genre Comedy, Action
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Solar Eclipse
(金環蝕)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1975
- Director Satsuo Yamamoto
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Jūkichi Uno, Rentaro Mikuni, Kō Nishimura, Gaku Yamamoto, Shigeru Kôyama
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Conflagration
(炎上)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1958
- Director Kon Ichikawa
- Cast Raizō Ichikawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Ganjirô Nakamura II, Yōko Uraji, Tamao Nakamura
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Haru's Journey
(春との旅)
Being old sucks . . .
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2010
- Director Masahiro Kobayashi
- Cast Eri Tokunaga, Tatsuya Nakadai, Hideji Ôtaki, Kin Sugai, Kaoru Kobayashi, Yūko Tanaka
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Hunter in the Dark
(闇の狩人)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1979
- Director Hideo Gosha
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoshio Harada, Ayumi Ishida, Keiko Kishi, Ai Kanzaki, Kayo Matsuo
- Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Like Asura
(阿修羅のごとく)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2003
- Director Yoshimitsu Morita
- Cast Shinobu Otake, Hitomi Kuroki, Eri Fukatsu, Kyoko Fukada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
A Duel Tale
(果し合い)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2015
- Director Shigemichi Sugita
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Mieko Harada, Nanami Sakuraba, Kentarô Shindô, Ryûki Takahashi, Eri Tokunaga
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Odd Obsession
(鍵)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1959
- Director Kon Ichikawa
- Cast Machiko Kyō, Ganjiro Nakamura, Junko Kano, Tatsuya Nakadai, Saburo Date, Jun Hamamura
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Battle of Okinawa
(激動の昭和史 沖縄決戦)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1971
- Director Kihachi Okamoto
- Cast Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama, Tetsurō Tamba, Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Ôzora, Kenji Sahara
- Genre War, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
(鬼龍院花子の生涯)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1982
- Director Hideo Gosha
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Masako Natsume, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurō Tamba, Akiko Kana, Emi Shindo
- Genre Action, Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Basara: Princess Goh
(豪姫)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1992
- Director Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Cast Rie Miyazawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiya Nagasawa, Kōshirō Matsumoto, Rentaro Mikuni
- Genre History, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Fireflies in the North
(北の螢)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1984
- Director Hideo Gosha
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Koichi Sato, Ai Saotome, Daisuke Ryû, Kunihiko Mitamura
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Three Yakuza
(股旅 三人やくざ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1965
- Director Tadashi Sawashima
- Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Hiroki Matsukata, Hiroko Sakuramachi, Wakaba Irie
- Genre Action, Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Shin Heike Monogatari
(新・平家物語)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1972
- Creator
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa, Tamao Nakamura, Yoshiko Sakuma
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Love Under the Crucifix
(お吟さま)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1962
- Director Kinuyo Tanaka
- Cast Ineko Arima, Tatsuya Nakadai, Chishū Ryū, Mieko Takamine, Osamu Takizawa, Kôji Nanbara
- Genre Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
(子連れ狼 その小さき手に)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1993
- Director Akira Inoue
- Cast Masakazu Tamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yushi Shoda, Shiho Fujimura, Isao Hashizume, Kimiko Ikegami
- Genre Action, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Jubaku: Spellbound
(金融腐蝕列島〔呪縛〕)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1999
- Director Masato Harada
- Cast Kōji Yakusho, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yumi Takigawa, Kippei Shiina, Tetsurō Tamba, Jinpachi Nezu
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
13 Assassins
(十三人の刺客)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1990
- Director Takuji Tominaga
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Ken Tanaka, Hisako Manda, Ikkô Furuya, Masakane Yonekura
- Genre Action, Drama, History, TV Movie
- Available on Tubi TV
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
(雲霧仁左衛門)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1978
- Director Hideo Gosha
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Matsumoto Hakuō II, Takashi Yamaguchi, Tetsurō Tamba, Keiko Matsuzaka
- Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Tubi TV
Heat Wave
(陽炎)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1991
- Director Hideo Gosha
- Cast Kanako Higuchi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiko Oginome, Masahiro Motoki, Rino Katase, Naoto Takenaka
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
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