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- (1954)
- Starring: Ko (Isao) Kimura, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/29/2023
- Features: DVD
- The residents of an impoverished farming village in 16th-century Japan, anticipating an attack by bandits after harvest, hire seven rōnin to defend them. Upon arrival, the warriors set about to... more
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- (1950)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/6/2012
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo. One of Akira Kurosawa's classic screen achievements takes form in this compelling tale of the murder of a samurai and the rape of his wife in medieval Japan. The crimes... more
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- (1954)
- Starring: Ko (Isao) Kimura, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/19/2010
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Daisuke Kato. This epic action classic is considered one of the greatest films of all time. In the 16th century, desperate farmers hire a band of samurai warriors to... more
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- (1961)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/23/2010
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai. In order to free a village from the clutches of a corrupt government, a clever samurai pits two warring gangs against each other. Directed by Akira... more
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- (1977)
- Starring: Yumiko Nogawa, Sonny Chiba
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Radiance
- Release Date: 2/25/2025
- Features: Subtitled
- Volatile Fukui gangster Kawada Noboru (Hiroki Matsukata) didn't like how his boss (Kō Nishimura) was ceding their wintry turf to an Osaka syndicate, and made his own play for territorial power. His... more
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- (1985)
- Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Lionsgate
- Release Date: 8/3/2021
- Features: Manufactured on Demand
- Akira Kurosawa's brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare's KING LEAR magically mixes Japanese history, Shakespeare's plot and Kurosawa's own feelings about loyalty in the epic masterpiece,... more
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- Starring: Keiju Kobayashi, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 1/7/2025
- Features: 4K Mastering, With Blu-ray, Subtitled, Widescreen
- The film that helped inspire the western classic "A Fistful of Dollars," Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" (1961) is a sly commentary on the action movie genre that follows a war-weary samurai (Toshiro... more
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- (1967)
- Starring: Yumiko Nogawa, Raizo Ichikawa
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Arrow Video
- Release Date: 2/11/2025
- Features: Limited Edition
- WWII vet Shiozawa (Raizo Ichikawa) maintained a quiet existence as a sushi chef, unless you discounted his side gig as a poison needle-wielding contract killer for the Yakuza. Between a too-grateful... more
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- Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/8/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa. A disgraced samurai and executioner travels the country, hiring himself out as an assassin while seeking personal revenge against the hit squad who killed his... more
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- (1980)
- Starring: Shuji Otake, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/18/2009
- Features: Blu-ray
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Daisuke Ryu. A petty criminal takes the place of a dying warlord in 16th-century Japan to fool those that plan to assassinate the ruler and inspire his followers... more
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- (1958)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/29/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura. This great samurai epic tells the story of a princess under the protection of a brave and resourceful general who is pursued by enemies of her clan. In Japanese with... more
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- (1990)
- Starring: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/8/2023
- Features: Widescreen, Subtitled
- Eight mesmerizing tableaus explore the subconscious at various stages of an elderly man's life in this visually stunning work from the master Japanese filmmaker. A boy's meeting with the spirits of a... more
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- (1957)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/25/2015
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki. In this feudal Japan-set adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a vicious samurai warrior rises to power he cannot fully wield, and the curses of ancient... more
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- Starring: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 1/5/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- Meiko Kaji, Tishio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon. Yuki is a Japanese "born-in-prison" female assassin who is trained from birth to avenge the murder of her father and the rape and imprisonment of her... more
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- (1966)
- Starring: Tamio Kawachi, Hideaki Esumi
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 12/13/2011
- Features: Blu-ray
- Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Tamio Kawachi. A longtime Japanese gangster refuses to give up antiquated codes of honor, much to the distress of his Mob bosses and other gangs.... more
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- (1979)
- Starring: Chocho Miyako, Ken Ogata
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/30/2014
- Features: Blu-ray
- A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (MISHIMA's Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura (THE PORNOGRAPHERS) turns this fact-based story-about the... more
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- (1948)
- Starring: Reisaburo Yamamoto, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/26/2007
- Features: DVD
- In this classic film noir, set in postwar Japan, ToshirC4 Mifune plays Matsunaga, a tough small- time gangster who takes a bullet during a fight in the slums of Tokyo. He makes his way to the office... more
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- (1966)
- Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/28/2014
- Features: Blu-ray
- Tatsuya Nakadai (Harakiri) and Toshiro Mifune (Yojimbo) star in the story of a wandering samurai who exists in a maelstrom of violence. A gifted swordsman plying his craft during the turbulent final... more
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- (1958)
- Starring: Michitaro Mizushima, Mari Shiraki
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Radiance
- Release Date: 1/28/2025
- Features: Blu-ray
- After being released from prison, gangster Miyamoto (Michitaro Mizushima) tries to retrieve a hidden stash of diamonds and use them to repay friend Mihara (Toru Abe), crippled by a bullet meant for... more
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- (1964)
- Starring: Tetsuro Tamba, Briana Banks
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/14/2012
- Features: Blu-ray
- Tetsuro Tamba, Isamu Nagato. This first film by Hideo Gosha is among the most canonized chambara (sword-fighting) films. An origin-story offshoot of a Japanese television series of the same name,... more
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- (1967)
- Starring: Mari Annu, Mariko Ogawa
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/9/2023
- Features: 4K Mastering, With Blu-ray, Mono Sound
- At once a brutal action film and a parody of the genre and it's critics, this bullet-riddled saga of the Japanese mob's "No. 3 Killer"-and how a mishap on a job turns him into the target of the "No.... more
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- (1964)
- Starring: Chisako Hara, Koji Nakahara
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/17/2011
- Features: Blu-ray
- In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict; what at first seems a redemptive relationship... more
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- (1967)
- Starring: Go Kato, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/4/2005
- Features: DVD
- Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai. Isaburo, an aging samurai, takes issue with his lord when the lord wants back the mistress he initially ordered Isaburo's son to marry. Now the son is in love with... more
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- (1996)
- Starring: Shosuke Tanihara
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Media Blasters
- Release Date: 11/26/2024
- Features: 4K Mastering, Standard Edition, Subtitled, Digital Theater System
- As emotional as it is violent, Takashi Miike's powerful action drama follows young Riki Fudoh (Shosuke Tanihara) eager for revenge against his Yakuza boss father (Toru Minegishi) for the brutal honor... more
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- (1969)
- Starring: Bunta Sugawara, Tomisaburo Wakayama
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Radiance
- Release Date: 11/19/2024
- Features: Blu-ray
- The quiet retirement that Yokohama yakuza leader Tsukamoto (Kôji Tsuruta) was hoping for following an eight-year stretch wasn't to be, as he emerged to find factions from Tokyo and Osaka fighting... more