Masayuki Mori

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Rashomon

(1950)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the r...

Runtime:

88 min

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Cast:

Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki

8.2

98%

98

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Ugetsu

(1953)

Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroyin...

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast:

Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyō, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarō Ozawa, Ikio Sawamura

8.2

100%

N/A

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The Bad Sleep Well

(1960)

Crime, Drama, Thriller

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up...

Runtime:

150 min

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Cast:

Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura

8.1

100%

N/A

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The Idiot

(1951)

Drama, Romance

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama realizes that he will never have Taeko, his thoughts turn to murder, and great tragedy ensues.

Runtime:

166 min

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Cast:

Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga, Takashi Shimura

7.2

70%

N/A

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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

(1960)

Drama

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older. She's of an age whe...

Runtime:

111 min

Director:

Mikio Naruse

Cast:

Masayuki Mori, Tatsuya Nakadai, Reiko Dan, Hideko Takamine

8.2

100%

N/A

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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

(1952)

Comedy, Drama, History, Thriller

Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to safety.

Runtime:

59 min

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Cast:

Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Kenichi Enomoto, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura

6.8

86%

N/A

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Floating Clouds

(1955)

Drama, Romance

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

Runtime:

123 min

Director:

Mikio Naruse

Cast:

Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada, Isao Yamagata, Chieko Nakakita

7.9

N/A

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Princess Yang Kwei Fei

(1955)

Drama, History, Romance

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love wi...

Runtime:

98 min

7.4

N/A

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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival

(1970)

Action, Adventure, Drama

Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband.

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

Kenji Misumi

Cast:

Shintarô Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai, Reiko Ôhara, Masayuki Mori, Pîtâ

7.6

N/A

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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two

(1945)

Action, Adventure, Drama

In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.

Runtime:

83 min

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Cast:

Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Ryunosuke Tsukigata, Akitake Kôno, Yukiko Todoroki

6.1

N/A

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Alone on the Pacific

(1963)

Adventure

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination.

Runtime:

97 min

Director:

Kon Ichikawa

Cast:

Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ruriko Asaoka, Hajime Hana

7.1

N/A

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The Heart

(1955)

Drama

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.

Runtime:

120 min

Director:

Kon Ichikawa

Cast:

Masayuki Mori, Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Mihashi, Shôji Yasui, Tanie Kitabayashi

7.4

N/A

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Brother and Sister

(1953)

Drama

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with h...

Runtime:

86 min

Director:

Mikio Naruse

Cast:

Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Yuji Hori, Eiji Funakoshi

7.6

N/A

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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

(1963)

Action, Drama, History

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.

Runtime:

122 min

Director:

Tadashi Imai

Cast:

Kinnosuke Nakamura, Eijirô Tôno, Kyôko Kishida, Masayuki Mori, Shinjiro Ebara

7.2

N/A

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Her Brother

(1960)

Drama

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.

Runtime:

98 min

7.1

N/A

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The Ball at the Anjo House

(1947)

Drama

After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The seemingly cold, cynical son secretly grieves for his defeated father and the values that the war destroyed, while the daughter tries to prevent father fr...

Runtime:

89 min

7.5

N/A

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The Other Woman

(1961)

Drama

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother.

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

Mikio Naruse

Cast:

Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Chikage Awashima

7.3

N/A

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Love Letter

(1953)

Romance

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Runtime:

98 min

Director:

Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast:

Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Jukichi Uno, Kyôko Kagawa

7.2

N/A

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A Whistle in My Heart

(1959)

Drama

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

Runtime:

126 min

Director:

Mikio Naruse

Cast:

Kun Kubo, Ryoko Koda, Masayuki Mori, Akira Takarada, Akira Kubo

7.0

N/A

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Forever a Woman

(1955)

Drama, Romance

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and the development of a serious illness: a breast cancer, which leads her to lose her breasts. In the last s...

Runtime:

109 min

Director:

Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast:

Yumeji Tsukioka, Ryôji Hayama, Junkichi Orimoto, Hiroko Kawasaki, Shirô Ôsaka

7.3

N/A

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Elegy of the North

(1957)

Drama

A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

Runtime:

117 min

Director:

Heinosuke Gosho

Cast:

Yoshiko Kuga, Masayuki Mori, Tatsuo Saitô, Mieko Takamine

6.8

N/A

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The Good Fairy

(1951)

Drama

Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future.

Runtime:

108 min

6.6

N/A

Love New and Old

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Love New and Old

(1961)

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

Runtime:

81 min

7.1

N/A

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Battle Troop

(1944)

War

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. Kawakami and Murakami later joins him as the base squardron is reinforced. The enemy task forc...

Runtime:

95 min

4.7

N/A

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Woman Unveiled

(1958)

Drama

Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.

Runtime:

100 min

N/A

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