
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a samurai overcome with guilt over his unwitting part in a massacre of a small village. Read More »
Tag Archives: Yôko Tsukasa
Saga of the Vagabonds (1959) Toshio Sugie, Toshirô Mifune

Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. Read More »
A Woman’s Place / Onna no Za (1962) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Yôko Tsukasa, Yuriko Hoshi

The widow of the eldest son of a large family is financially dependent on her husband’s relatives. Read More »
Admiral Yamamoto / Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (1968) Seiji Maruyama, Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Read More »
Samurai Rebellion / Jôi-uchi: Hairyô tsuma shimatsu (1967) Masaki Kobayashi, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Gô Katô

During peace in 1725, aging swordsman Isaburo is living a henpecked life when his clan Read More »
Hell’s Gate Island / Gokumon-to (1977) Kon Ichikawa, Koji Ishizaka, Yôko Tsukasa, Reiko Ôhara

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946. Read More »
Samurai Saga AKA Aru kengo no shogai (1959) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akira Takarada

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. Read More »
The Last Gunfight (1960) Kihachi Okamoto, Toshirô Mifune, Kôji Tsuruta, Yôko Tsukasa

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Read More »
The Three Treasures (1959) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akihiko Hirata

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor Keikoh’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father Read More »
Scattered Clouds (1967) Mikio Naruse, Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, Mitsuko Kusabue, Drama, Romance

A guy falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car collision. Finally she falls in love with him . Read More »