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Tracked (1985) Hideo Gosha, Ken Ogata, Atsuko Asano, Takuzô Kawatani
A man who is jailed for murdering his family after he confessed, escapes. Read More »
Okami yo rakujitsu o kire / The Last Samurai (1974) Kenji Misumi, Hideki Takahashi, Ken Ogata, Takahiro Tamura, Action, Drama
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Read More »
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) Paul Schrader, Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Biography, Drama
A fictionalized account in four segments of the life of Japan’s celebrated twentieth-century author Yukio Mishima. Three of the segments parallel events in Mishima’s life with his novels (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji), Kyoko’s House, and Runaway Horses), while the fourth depicts 25 November 1970, “The Last Day”…
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