Rentarô Mikuni Movies

Kwaidan

80/100

A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

Samurai

76/100

Depicts the early life of the legendary warrior Musashi Miyamoto; his years as an aspiring warrior, an outlaw and finally a true samurai.

Vengeance Is Mine

79/100

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.

The Burmese Harp

81/100

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.

Zatoichi the Outlaw

72/100

In a town where debt-ridden peasants are being ruthlessly exploited, Zatoichi is forced to take sides between a cruel yakuza boss and his seemingly altruistic rival.

Profound Desires of the Gods

78/100

An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.

Zatoichi at Large

72/100

On the road, Zatoichi meets a dying pregnant woman and delivers the child moments before she passes. Honor bound, he sets out to find the next-of-kin who he discovers have their own problems.

A Fugitive from the Past

80/100

Three thieves escape from a heist, one of them killing the other two. He is sheltered by a prostitute and sought after by the police, but only after ten years his true motivation unravels.

Rikyu

73/100

Legendary tea master Sen no Rikyu is faced with his warmongering lord's unrealistic pretensions.

Die Steuerfahnderin schlägt wieder zu

69/100

Ryoko Itakura returns as the government tax agent willing to tackle the toughest cases. This time she takes on a fanatical but lucrative religious cult run by a vile lecher.

The Wind Carpet

69/100

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

62/100

A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

71/100

Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant ... See full summary »

Coup d'Etat

71/100

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

The Catch

70/100

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their "catch."

Mikan no taikyoku

73/100

Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese...

Never Give Up

63/100

A Japanese Warrior leaves the secretive battalion he is apart of. As a skilled soldier, he confronts evil and serves his people.

Shiro Amakusa, the Christian Rebel

71/100

In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.

Das Rendezvous

71/100

Sword for Hire

73/100

Soldiers Hayatenosuke Sasa and Kagami Yaheiji leave their besieged castle on a secret mission into the enemy camp. Hayatenosuke has left behind his lover, Kano. In the camp, Hayatenosuke is... See full summary »

The Friends

73/100

Boyhood

70/100

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

Shadow of Deception

70/100

Five years ago Minako spent a night with Sozo, the younger brother of her ex-husband. Now she is married to a wealthy old man, who (though he loves his young wife) is no longer able to ... See full summary »

Echigo Tsutsuishi Oyashirazu

69/100

Saraba Rabauru

71/100