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Rashomon (1950)

Summary: The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

Release Date: December 26, 1951

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Ryûnosuke Akutagawa

, Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Daiei

Distributor: Edward Harrison, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, The Criterion Channel, Embassy Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 250,000

Domestic: $ 46,808

International: $ 34,571

Ugetsu (1953)

Summary: A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

Release Date: September 07, 1954

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, War

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Writers: Matsutarô Kawaguchi

, Hisakazu Tsuji

, Akinari Ueda

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Daiei Studios

Distributor: Janus Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 11,197

International: $ 13,762

Seven Samurai (1954)

Summary: Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.

Release Date: November 19, 1956

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Hideo Oguni

Runtime: 3 h 27 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Kingsley-International Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Embassy Pictures, Films Incorporated, Janus Films, Landmark Films, Embassy Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Cowboy Pictures

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 125,000,000

Domestic: $ 318,649

International: $ 27,609

Throne of Blood (1957)

Summary: A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

Release Date: November 22, 1961

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Hideo Oguni

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Ryûzô Kikushima

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company, Kurosawa Production Co.

Distributor: Cowboy Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Media Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 46,808

The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Summary: Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.

Release Date: December 28, 1958

Genres: Adventure, Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Ryûzô Kikushima

, Hideo Oguni

, Shinobu Hashimoto

Runtime: 2 h 19 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Albex, Cowboy Pictures, Media Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: English

Domestic: $ 46,808

Harakiri (1962)

Summary: When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.

Release Date: August 04, 1964

Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Writers: Yasuhiko Takiguchi

, Shinobu Hashimoto

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Shochiku

Distributor: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Onibaba (1964)

Summary: Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.

Release Date: February 04, 1965

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Kaneto Shindô

Writer: Kaneto Shindô

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Kindai Eiga Kyokai, Tokyo Eiga Co Ltd.

Distributor: Toho Company, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: English

You Only Live Twice (1967)

Summary: James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States.

Release Date: June 13, 1967

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Director: Lewis Gilbert

Writers: Harold Jack Bloom

, Roald Dahl

, Ian Fleming

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Eon Productions

Distributor: United Artists, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Home Box Office (HBO), RCA (II), CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Philips, Warner Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: James Bond

Movie budget: $ 9,500,000

Domestic: $ 43,084,787

International: $ 11,139

Black Cat (1968)

Summary: Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.

Release Date: February 24, 1968

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Kaneto Shindô

Writer: Kaneto Shindô

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Toho Company, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection, Something Weird Video (SWV)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Red Sun (1971)

Summary: In 1870, a gang robs a train and steals a ceremonial Japanese sword meant as a gift for the U.S. President, prompting a manhunt to retrieve it.

Release Date: June 09, 1972

Genres: Action, Western

Director: Terence Young

Writers: Laird Koenig

, Denne Bart Petitclerc

, William Roberts

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Les Films Corona, Oceania Produzioni Internazionali Cinematografiche, Producciones Balcázar S.A.

Distributor: National General Pictures, CBS, Video Gems, Warner Archive Collection, Gold Video

Countries: France, Italy, Spain

Language: French

Domestic: $ 4,840,000

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

Writers: Kazuo Kamimura

, Kazuo Koike

, Norio Osada

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd.

Distributor: HBO Max, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

The Killer Elite (1975)

Summary: Mike Locken, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the C.I.A., is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life.

Release Date: December 19, 1975

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Writers: Marc Norman

, Stirling Silliphant

, Robert Syd Hopkins

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Exeter Associates, Persky-Bright Productions, Arthur Lewis Productions, Baum/Dantine Productions

Distributor: United Artists, CBS, Key Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, TGG Direct, Twilight Time, Scorpion Releasing

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,000,000

Up from the Depths (1979)

Summary: A giant shark-like creature preys on a Hawaiian tourist community.

Release Date: August 30, 1984

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Charles B. Griffith

Writers: Alfred M. Sweeney

, Anne Dyer

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: R

Production: New World Pictures, Pacific Trust

Country: United States

Language: English

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)

Summary: During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.

Release Date: September 02, 1983

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Nagisa Ôshima

Writers: Lourens van der Post

, Nagisa Ôshima

, Paul Mayersberg

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: R

Production: National Film Trustee Company, Antares-Nova, Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Broadbank Investments

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Artisan Entertainment, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, New Zealand, Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 2,306,560

Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

Summary: An evil ninja attempts to avenge his death from beyond the grave, by possessing an innocent woman's body.

Release Date: September 14, 1984

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Thriller

Director: Sam Firstenberg

Writer: James R. Silke

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: Golan-Globus Productions, Cannon Films, Golan-Globus Productions

Distributor: The Cannon Group, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Scream Factory, Shout! Factory, Viacom, WGN

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 7,610,785

Ran (1985)

Summary: In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

Release Date: June 01, 1985

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Hideo Oguni

, Masato Ide

Runtime: 2 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Greenwich Film Productions, Herald Ace, Nippon Herald Films

Distributor: Orion Classics, CBS/Fox, StudioCanal, The Criterion Collection, Rialto Pictures, Wellspring Media

Countries: Japan, France

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 11,500,000

Domestic: $ 4,135,750

International: $ 28,533

Demons (1985)

Summary: A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons.

Release Date: May 30, 1986

Genre: Horror

Director: Lamberto Bava

Writers: Dardano Sacchetti

, Dario Argento

, Lamberto Bava

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: DACFILM Rome

Distributor: Ascot Entertainment Group, New World Video, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starz Home Entertainment, Best Film & Video, Synapse Films

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 1,800,000

Highlander (1986)

Summary: An immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponents, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled "Prize".

Release Date: March 07, 1986

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Russell Mulcahy

Writers: Gregory Widen

, Peter Bellwood

, Larry Ferguson

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, Davis-Panzer Productions, Highlander Productions Limited

Distributor: Thorn EMI, Twentieth Century Fox, HBO/Cannon Video, HBO Video, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Image Entertainment, Weintraub Entertainment Group, Republic Pictures Home Video, WGN, Republic Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment, StudioCanal, Anchor Bay Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Highlander

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,900,000

International: $ 712

Steel Dawn (1987)

Summary: In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by the leader of a murderous gang who's after the water they control.

Release Date: March 31, 1988

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Lance Hool