In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. Read More »
Tag Archives: Kin’ya Kitaôji
Band of Assassins AKA Shinsengumi (1969) Tadashi Sawashima, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Kin’ya Kitaôji
Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins Read More »
Suke-san Kaku-san oabare (1961) Tadashi Sawashima, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Hiroki Matsukata, Haruo Tanaka
The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun’s uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Read More »
Wolves, Pigs and People (1964) Kinji Fukasaku, Ken Takakura, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Shinjirô Ebara
A lonely gangster tries recruiting men to plunder a respected and powerful gang. Read More »
Gambling Den Heist (1975) Kinji Fukasaku
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor. Read More »
Noisy Dynamite / Dainamaito don don (1978) Kihachi Okamoto, Junko Miyashita, Bunta Sugawara, Kin’ya Kitaôji
Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyushu Area in the summer of 1950 Read More »
Yumechiyo’s Diary / Yumechiyo nikki (1985) Kirirô Urayama, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Kirin Kiki
Yumechiyo Nikki is the story of a woman who is suffering from leukemia, the result of exposure to the atomic blast when she was still unborn. Read More »
Men and War III (1973) Satsuo Yamamoto
The third and final part details the family’s trials during the Sino-Japanese War to the Soviet army’s Read More »
Fire Festival (1985) Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Kiwako Taichi, Norihei Miki, Drama
The villagers in a beautiful remote area of Japan are divided into the woodsmen, who worship the mountain goddess, and the fishermen, who worship the goddess of the sea. Read More »
Winters Flower (1978) Yasuo Furuhata, Ken Takakura, Kimiko Ikegami, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Crime, Drama
A thug is released after fifteen years in prison for the murder of a yakuza gang boss. Read More »