Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)

Summary: A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

Release Date: October 10, 1980

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Masato Ide

, Akira Kurosawa

Runtime: 2 h 42 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Kurosawa Production Co., Toho Company, Twentieth Century Fox, Zoetrope Studios

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Fox Video

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,000,000

International: $ 18,532

Seishun no satsujinsha (1976)

Summary: Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.

Release Date: October 23, 1976

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Writers: Kenji Nakagami

, Tsutomu Tamura

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

Production: Art Theatre Guild (ATG), Imamura Productions, Soeisha

Distributor: Toho Company

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Lady Snowblood (1973)

Summary: A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

Release Date: March 22, 1974

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: Toshiya Fujita