Toranosuke Ogawa

Toranosuke Ogawa

Born: December 1, 1897
Died: December 29, 1967
in Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Toranosuke Ogawa...

Godzilla
Title: Godzilla
Character: President of Company (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), plus WWII newsreel footage and clips from other monster 1950's movies. The re-edited film was then colorized via a process called Spectrorama 70 consisting of applying various colored gels to the black and white footage. The film's opening and ending also features new music composed by musician Vince Tempera (under the pseudonym Magnetic System).
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Sasuke and His Comedians
Title: Sasuke and His Comedians
Released: December 11, 1963
Type: Movie
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a young boy named Sasuke with magical powers he says came from a meteor that crashed onto the Earth…
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Cosmetic Sales Competition
Title: Cosmetic Sales Competition
Character: Yasubei Takada
Released: June 9, 1963
Type: Movie
A cosmetics saleswoman falls for a rival executive.
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Title: Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Character: Executive Kihara
Released: April 28, 1963
Type: Movie
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.
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Sarariiman monogatari Taiki bansai
Title: Sarariiman monogatari Taiki bansai
Released: February 20, 1963
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai
Title: Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai
Released: December 5, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Boku chin hōrō-ki
Title: Boku chin hōrō-ki
Released: August 26, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Ballad of a Workman
Title: Ballad of a Workman
Character: Yoshio's father
Released: August 12, 1962
Type: Movie
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
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San'nin musume kanpai!
Title: San'nin musume kanpai!
Released: July 18, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Seinen no isu
Title: Seinen no isu
Released: April 8, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Yume ga ippai abarenbō
Title: Yume ga ippai abarenbō
Released: April 1, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Sanjuro
Title: Sanjuro
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
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The Phantom Samurai
Title: The Phantom Samurai
Released: November 19, 1961
Type: Movie
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A Good Man, A Good Day
Title: A Good Man, A Good Day
Released: August 13, 1961
Type: Movie
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.
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Tenka no Kaidanji Senpû Tarô
Title: Tenka no Kaidanji Senpû Tarô
Character: Saikai Marine Transport President K
Released: February 14, 1961
Type: Movie
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Devotion to Railway
Title: Devotion to Railway
Character: Coal mine president Yoshida
Released: November 8, 1960
Type: Movie
A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...
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The Tokyo Mighty Guy
Title: The Tokyo Mighty Guy
Character: Onizaemon Ippon'yari
Released: July 29, 1960
Type: Movie
Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...
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The Lord Pretends
Title: The Lord Pretends
Character: Katsunosuke Nakai
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Lord and the Gambler
Title: The Lord and the Gambler
Character: Kubodera Heizaemon
Released: August 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his step-brother's castle, when the ruler of the Takatori Clan suddenly dies leaving no heir and despite the protest from Minister Horio, it is decided that young Chonosuke is to succeed as ruler of the clan. Horio determines to murder Chonosuke on his way to Edo so that his own grandchild may rule the Takatori Clan. "Odd" Han, a travelling gambler happens to stop at the inn where Chonosuke's party is staying in secret. The assassins come to attack Chonosuke on the riverbank where he is viewing the fireworks alone but are driven off by Han. Now Chonosuke travels with Han disguised as a gambler during which he begins to learn the hardships of the peasants and is struck with the contrast between the life of a feudal and those whose labour provides his luxurious living.
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The Path I Remember
Title: The Path I Remember
Character: Gentarô, Grandfather
Released: May 27, 1959
Type: Movie
Japanese drama
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Zoku shachōtaiheiki
Title: Zoku shachōtaiheiki
Released: March 15, 1959
Type: Movie
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
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Eyes of Mother and Daughter
Title: Eyes of Mother and Daughter
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: Movie
Japanese drama film.
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The Hidden Fortress
Title: The Hidden Fortress
Character: Magistrate (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1958
Type: Movie
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.
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Travels of Lord Mito
Title: Travels of Lord Mito
Character: Shirôemon Matsubara
Released: December 21, 1958
Type: Movie
Lord Mito Mitsukuni, the vice-shogun of the whole country, left the family estate and went on a trip to various provinces with his students Sukesaburo Sasaki and Kakunoshin Atsumi. At an inn in Sunagawa, Mitsukuni exposed and punished an evil judge who had fallen in love with a townsman's wife. However, on the night he stayed at Nihonmatsu Castle, Mitsukuni found out that this incident was a performance organized especially for him…
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Sister with Sister
Title: Sister with Sister
Character: President Hase
Released: December 9, 1958
Type: Movie
Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.
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Ambush at Iga Pass
Title: Ambush at Iga Pass
Released: November 15, 1958
Type: Movie
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Face in the Dark
Title: Face in the Dark
Character: Naruse
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: Movie
Japanese suspense film.
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The Swishing Sword
Title: The Swishing Sword
Released: August 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl who seeks revenge, disguises herself by dressing up in men's clothes, geisha, etc. A young swordsman helps her uncover the plot and take revenge.
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All About Marriage
Title: All About Marriage
Character: Ryuzo Doi
Released: May 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
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The Chastity Boy and Miss Brassiere
Title: The Chastity Boy and Miss Brassiere
Released: January 18, 1958
Type: Movie
Early pinku.
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Warm Current
Title: Warm Current
Character: Shima Yasuhide
Released: December 1, 1957
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.
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Birth of Romance
Title: Birth of Romance
Character: Ryûzô
Released: May 15, 1957
Type: Movie
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks singer Hibari Misora to perform. Musical youth comedy with young actors, passion, funny songs and laughter. Hibari Misora appears as herself.
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Night Butterflies
Title: Night Butterflies
Released: April 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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Tenten Musume
Title: Tenten Musume
Released: December 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts.
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Jacks and Jills
Title: Jacks and Jills
Character: Kawamura
Released: August 15, 1956
Type: Movie
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Title: Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Character: President of Company
Released: April 27, 1956
Type: Movie
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.
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The Chop Professor
Title: The Chop Professor
Released: April 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital after being thrown by Nobuyoshi Shinohara during practice and injured, he met Asako, the sister of Arisawa's mother, Katsuko. When they entering a coffee shop run by Asako's best friend Hisako, Hisako misunderstood them as lovers...
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Asataro the Crow
Title: Asataro the Crow
Released: March 28, 1956
Type: Movie
Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.
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Fountainhead
Title: Fountainhead
Character: Dr. Onuma
Released: February 26, 1956
Type: Movie
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
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I Live in Fear
Title: I Live in Fear
Character: Hori, the lawyer
Released: November 22, 1955
Type: Movie
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 counselor, attempts to arbitrate.
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The Phantom Horse
Title: The Phantom Horse
Character: Nishiyama
Released: July 20, 1955
Type: Movie
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.
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Burden of Love
Title: Burden of Love
Character: Congress Committee Chairman
Released: March 18, 1955
Type: Movie
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after the other. - Nikkatsu
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Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Title: Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Released: February 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution.
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All is Well 2
Title: All is Well 2
Character: Toranosuke Yase
Released: February 20, 1955
Type: Movie
A year 's date has flowed since Toyoshi Daikichi was driven out of Toyo Electric. In the company Okazaki's plan steadily progressed, a capital increase was also made to strengthen the voice. Daikichi, who knew about it, had been buying Toyo Electric shares for a year, requesting Okazaki's retirement, continuing Yami 's business in Osaka and earning money.
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Godzilla
Title: Godzilla
Character: President of Company
Released: November 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
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The Great White Tiger Platoon
Title: The Great White Tiger Platoon
Released: August 25, 1954
Type: Movie
The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Meant to be a reserve unit as it was made of the young, 16-17 year old sons of Aizu samurai. Their story is one of the great tragedies of the Boshin War (1868-1869) as they were called into action. Getting cut off from the main body of their platoon, a group of 20 from the 2nd squad retreated to Iimori Hill, where they looked down upon fires surrounding Aizu Castle and thinking that the castle has fallen and all is lost, they choose to die as samurai by committing seppuku. A superb rendition of this true story that shows the true honor of the samurai.
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Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
Title: Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
Released: July 13, 1954
Type: Movie
Japanese war film.
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Last of the Wild Ones
Title: Last of the Wild Ones
Released: June 8, 1954
Type: Movie
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
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Seven Samurai
Title: Seven Samurai
Character: Grandfather of Kidnapped Girl
Released: April 26, 1954
Type: Movie
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 with food.
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An Inn at Osaka
Title: An Inn at Osaka
Released: April 20, 1954
Type: Movie
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
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Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
Title: Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
Released: April 13, 1954
Type: Movie
Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.
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Koina no Ginpei
Title: Koina no Ginpei
Released: January 15, 1954
Type: Movie
1954 Japanese movie
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First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
Title: First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
Character: President Manami
Released: November 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a good-natured man and slow-witted. They are rarely seen together, and others often criticize them for being too boring and uninteresting.
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Eagle of the Pacific
Title: Eagle of the Pacific
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
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Youth of Heiji Senigata
Title: Youth of Heiji Senigata
Character: Mizuno
Released: August 19, 1953
Type: Movie
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Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
Title: Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
Released: July 29, 1953
Type: Movie
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
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Jirocho's Home-Coming
Title: Jirocho's Home-Coming
Released: June 23, 1953
Type: Movie
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The Battleship Yamato
Title: The Battleship Yamato
Character: Combined Fleet Chief of Staff Kusaka
Released: June 15, 1953
Type: Movie
The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato".
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Koibito-tachi no iru machi
Title: Koibito-tachi no iru machi
Released: February 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop, is the lover of Douta Kuraishi, the manager of Cabaret Orion.
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My Wonderful Yellow Car
Title: My Wonderful Yellow Car
Character: The old man
Released: January 15, 1953
Type: Movie
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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Title: Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Released: January 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Jirocho the gambler hits the road.
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Jirocho Rises in Fame
Title: Jirocho Rises in Fame
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
The rise of the famed gambler.
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恐妻時代
Title: 恐妻時代
Character: President
Released: October 30, 1952
Type: Movie
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Ikiru
Title: Ikiru
Character: Park Section Chief
Released: October 9, 1952
Type: Movie
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.
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Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
Title: Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
Released: August 28, 1952
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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Fighting Yasubei
Title: Fighting Yasubei
Released: July 30, 1952
Type: Movie
Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount of 13 ryo in order to save Oteru, the daughter of a merchant. However, the next day, Rokuroemon was killed in a fight by the Murakami brothers. Yasubei rushed to the scene, took revenge and became the husband of Miya, the daughter of Horibe Yahei.
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Forty-Eight Man
Title: Forty-Eight Man
Released: June 26, 1952
Type: Movie
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
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Third Class Executives
Title: Third Class Executives
Released: May 30, 1952
Type: Movie
1950s Japanese comedy.
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The Life of Oharu
Title: The Life of Oharu
Character: Yoshioka
Released: April 17, 1952
Type: Movie
In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
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Mr. Lucky
Title: Mr. Lucky
Released: February 2, 1952
Type: Movie
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Vendetta of a Samurai
Title: Vendetta of a Samurai
Released: January 3, 1952
Type: Movie
The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa Akira and starring Mifune Toshiro as the famed swordsman who must face his best friend as they are forced to take opposite sides in a vendetta caused by the murder of a family member. Told mostly in flashback as the avengers await the arrival of their quarry, this film displays true heroism in the face of fear as most of the combatants, while of the samurai class are not skilled swordsmen. They contrast sharply with the true warriors involved in this battle. Araki Mataemon (Mifune), who was not only a direct student of Yagyu Munenori, but the founder of his own sword style under the Yagyu name is a powerful force ready to assist his brother-in-law against the murderer's allies that include not only another noted sword teacher, but the deadly spear of Katsumi no Hanbei.