Takeshi Katō — Actor (71)
Movie
Yojimbo (1961)
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Akira Kurosawa
actor:
Toshirō Mifune
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Tatsuya Nakadai
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other title:
요짐보
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用心棒
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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 Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Movie
High and Low (1963)
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Akira Kurosawa
actor:
Toshirō Mifune
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The Snake
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other title:
천국과 지옥
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天国と地獄
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In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.
Movie
The Pirates of Buban (1972)
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Shōhei Imamura
actor:
Kō Nishimura
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Shoichi Ozawa
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other title:
布布安的海贼
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ブブアンの海賊
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By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the control of cruel & armed pirates. Imamura will come to meet those men in order to understand their position.
Movie
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)
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other title:
막말태양전
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幕末太陽傳
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Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
Movie
Jo-oh-bachi (1978)
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市川昆
actor:
Koji Ishizaka
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Mieko Takamine
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other title:
女王蜂
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Queen Bee
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To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all.
Movie
The Seven Samurai (1954)
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other title:
七武士
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七人の侍
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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 themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Movie
Ran (1985)
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Akira Kurosawa
actor:
Tatsuya Nakadai
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Akira Terao
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other title:
란
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乱
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With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.