Masayuki Mori

Filmography

Masayuki Mori - filmography

The Bad Sleep Well on DVD (1960)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyoko Kagawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old feudal misconceptions lingering in modern corruption, and Shakespeare's Hamlet. The rotten corporate world is taken on by Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune), who is looking for ..read more »

70% from 822 members

When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (1960)
Starring: Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan
Director: Mikio Naruse
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Keiko, 'Mama', is a 30 yr old Geisha with many life pressures and is of an age where she must think about her future. Should she seek a marriage, try and buy a bar herself or give up and be a kept woman.

76% from 35 members
Currently unavailable

Akasen Chitai / Yokihi (2 discs) (1955)
Starring: Machiko Kyo, Aiko Mimasu, Masayuki Mori
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Akasen Chitai [Red Light District, aka Street of Shame] sadly, the very last film by Kenji Mizoguchi (Sansho Dayu, Ugetsu Monogatari) presents a vivid portrait of prostitution in 1950s Japan. In a Tokyo brothel named Dreamland an obvious irony given the faded hopes of those who work there the lives ..read more »

72% from 186 members
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Kokoro on DVD (1955)
Starring: Masayuki Mori, Tatsuya Mihashi, Michiyo Aratama
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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Brimful with brooding psychological torment, Kokoro is vintage Kon Ichikawa (An Actor's Revenge, The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad). Based on a novel by celebrated Japanese author Natsume Soseki, the director foregrounds its themes of individual isolation and social estrangement, most notably in a ..read more »

70% from 93 members

Ugetsu Monogatari / Oyu-Sama (2 discs) (1953)
Starring: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Ugetsu Monogatar: Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari [Tales of the Rain and Moon] is a highly acclaimed masterwork of Japanese cinema. Based on a pair of 18th century ghost stories by Ueda Akinari. Amidst the pandemonium of civil war, potter Genjuro (Mori Masayuki) and samurai-aspirant Tobei (Ozawa ..read more »

74% from 982 members
Not available for rental

The Lady Of Musashino on DVD (1951)
Starring: Masayuki Mori, So Yamamura, Yukiko Todoroki
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Lady Musashino falls in love with her cousin when she discovers her husband's infidelity.

67% from 641 members

The Idiot on DVD (1951)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Retelling of Fydor Dostoyevsky's novel, where the action is transferred from Russia to Northern Japan. An unstable war criminal acquitted of charges gets involved with two women...

64% from 741 members

Rashomon on DVD (1950)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's highly acclaimed film, set in feudal Japan, presents an intriguing tale of violent crime in the woods, told from the perspective of four different characters--a bandit (Toshiro Mifune), a woman (Machiko Kyo), her husband (Masayuki Mori), and a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura). Only two ..read more »

72% from 9,958 members

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945)
Starring: Denjiro Okochi, Susumu Fujita, Kenichi Enomoto
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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A fugitive lord and his bodyguards and followers, all disguised as monks, traverse a forest, where they must avoid capture and outsmart the border guards.

57% from 5 members
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Mikio Naruse Collection (3 discs) on DVD
Starring: Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada
Director: Mikio Naruse
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Acclaimed Japanese director Mikio Naruse's career spanned from the end of the silent era through to the sixties, producing 89 films. His work is imbued with the bleak cynicism associated with shomin-geki (working-class drama), yet the struggle for a life better than the one dealt by fate, is ..read more »

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The Bad Sleep Well - 3.5 stars
When A Woman Ascends The Stairs - 3.5 stars
Akasen Chitai / Yokihi - 3.5 stars
Kokoro - 3.5 stars
Ugetsu Monogatari / Oyu-Sama - 3.5 stars

Mikio Naruse Collection - 4.0 stars
Ugetsu Monogatari / Oyu-Sama - 3.5 stars
Akasen Chitai / Yokihi - 3.5 stars
Rashomon - 3.5 stars
Kokoro - 3.5 stars

Toshiro Mifune - 4 times - show films
Machiko Kyo - 4 times - show films
Takashi Shimura - 3 times - show films
Hideko Takamine - 2 times - show films
Tatsuya Mihashi - 2 times - show films

Kenji Mizoguchi - 7 times - show films
Mikio Naruse - 5 times - show films
Akira Kurosawa - 5 times - show films
Kon Ichikawa - 1 times - show films