Movies: Akira Tani

  • 1954
    Seven Samurai

    Seven Samurai (1954)

    Seven Samurai

    8.41954HD

    A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers...

    Seven Samurai
  • 1952
    Ikiru

    Ikiru (1952)

    Ikiru

    8.31952HD

    Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life....

    Ikiru
  • 1961
    Yojimbo

    Yojimbo (1961)

    Yojimbo

    8.01961HD

    A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemo...

    Yojimbo
  • 1965
    Kwaidan

    Kwaidan (1965)

    Kwaidan

    7.71965HD

    Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue come...

    Kwaidan
  • 1958
    The Hidden Fortress

    The Hidden Fortress (1958)

    The Hidden Fortress

    81958HD

    In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains....

    The Hidden Fortress
  • 1960
    When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

    When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)

    When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

    7.91960HD

    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...

    When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
  • 1957
    Throne of Blood

    Throne of Blood (1957)

    Throne of Blood

    7.91957HD

    Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the s...

    Throne of Blood
  • 1959
    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    8.11959HD

    After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his...

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • 1964
    Mothra vs. Godzilla

    Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)

    Mothra vs. Godzilla

    71964HD

    Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea for its return. As their requests are denied, God...

    Mothra vs. Godzilla
  • 1948
    Drunken Angel

    Drunken Angel (1948)

    Drunken Angel

    7.51948HD

    Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convince Matsunaga to stay for treatment, which would drastically change his lifestyle. They form an unea...

    Drunken Angel
  • 1955
    I Live in Fear

    I Live in Fear (1955)

    I Live in Fear

    7.31955HD

    Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court cou...

    I Live in Fear
  • 1962
    47 Ronin

    47 Ronin (1962)

    47 Ronin

    7.31962HD

    After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor....

    47 Ronin
  • 1954
    Late Chrysanthemums

    Late Chrysanthemums (1954)

    Late Chrysanthemums

    7.21954HD

    With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money....

    Late Chrysanthemums
  • 1955
    Floating Clouds

    Floating Clouds (1955)

    Floating Clouds

    7.71955HD

    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....

    Floating Clouds
  • 1962
    Doburoku no Tatsu

    Doburoku no Tatsu (1962)

    Doburoku no Tatsu

    01962HD

    1962 Japanese movie...

    Doburoku no Tatsu
  • 1959
    The Three Treasures

    The Three Treasures (1959)

    The Three Treasures

    5.41959HD

    The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he h...

    The Three Treasures
  • 1962
    The Wiser Age

    The Wiser Age (1962)

    The Wiser Age

    7.31962HD

    Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....

    The Wiser Age
  • 1959
    Samurai Saga

    Samurai Saga (1959)

    Samurai Saga

    6.71959HD

    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. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of h...

    Samurai Saga
  • 1957
    Untamed Woman

    Untamed Woman (1957)

    Untamed Woman

    7.31957HD

    A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality....

    Untamed Woman
  • 1965
    Beast Alley

    Beast Alley (1965)

    Beast Alley

    71965HD

    "When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto....

    Beast Alley