Minoru Chiaki

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Hidden Fortress review by Nicho from Banbury

"Get away from me! You stink of dead bodies! " 25 March 2010
... were fantastic - Toshirô Mifune was great as the general and the two peasants (Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara) were perfect. Really great stuff again from Kurosawa ... Read customer review

Hidden Fortress on DVD (1958)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (original Japanese title: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin) stars Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara as a pair of misfit soldiers. Running from the enemy after a disastrous defeat, the two soldiers fall in with general Toshiro Mifune, who is in search of a huge ..read more »

72% from 5,007 members

Throne Of Blood on DVD (1957)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy. Familiar with Orson Welles's more faithful adaptation, Kurosawa chose to place a more personal stamp on his version by translating the events and characters to historical ..read more »

72% from 5,891 members

I Live In Fear on DVD (1955)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Eiko Miyoshi, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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When an elderly, wealthy man decides that nuclear holocaust is eminent in his country, he decides to move his family to Brazil at all costs-a place which, for some mysterious reason, he believes to be safe. His family refuses to move because they fear that the move will jeopardize their financial ..read more »

64% from 641 members

Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
Starring: Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Motoyoshi Oda
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When two pilots accidentally end up on a small barren island they discover two huge monsters waging war before they fall into the ocean. Rushing back to Japan they inform the authorities of what they saw. Soon the world comes to realise that a monster closely resembling Godzilla is on the loose ..read more »

48% from 11 members
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Seven Samurai on DVD (1954)
Starring: Keiko Tsushima, Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Set in 16th Century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's epic SEVEN SAMURAI follows the plight of a defenseless farming village that lives in constant fear of marauding bandits. The farmers know that when their crops are harvested, the thugs will attack, so four men go to town in hopes of employing samurai to ..read more »

73% from 38,267 members

Hidden Fortress - 3.5 stars
Throne Of Blood - 3.5 stars
I Live In Fear - 3.0 stars
Godzilla Raids Again - 2.5 stars
Seven Samurai - 3.5 stars

Seven Samurai - 3.5 stars
Hidden Fortress - 3.5 stars
Throne Of Blood - 3.5 stars
I Live In Fear - 3.0 stars
Godzilla Raids Again - 2.5 stars

Godzilla Raids Again - 2.5 stars
I Live In Fear - 3.0 stars
Throne Of Blood - 3.5 stars
Hidden Fortress - 3.5 stars
Seven Samurai - 3.5 stars

Toshiro Mifune - 5 times - show films
Takashi Shimura - 5 times - show films
Daisuke Kato - 2 times - show films
Eiko Miyoshi - 2 times - show films
Yoshio Inaba - 2 times - show films

Akira Kurosawa - 5 times - show films
Motoyoshi Oda - 1 times - show films