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Masayuki Mori
Filmography
Masayuki Mori - filmography
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Outrage - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Ryo Kase, Renji Ishibashi, Kippei Shiina
Director: Takeshi Kitano
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A deadly power struggle erupts between Tokyo's Yakuza clans in this edgy thriller from actor/director Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano. Fearing that his trusted second-in-command, Ikemoto (Jun Kunimura), has struck a deal with his drug-dealing rivals, the Murase family, overall Yakuza clan boss 'The Chairman' ..read more »
 
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from 299 members
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Zatoichi - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano
Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
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Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano, best known for his 1997 film 'Hana-Bi', revives the Japanese fictional action anti-hero Zatoichi in this violent and bloody swashbuckling samurai adventure. Zatoichi (played by Takeshi himself) may be blind but he is also an incredibly gifted and precise swordsman. When the ..read more »
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from 1,251 member
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Zatoichi
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano
Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
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Zatoichi is a 19th century blind nomad who makes his living as a gambler and masseur. However, behind this humble facade, he is a master swordsman gifted with a lightning-fast draw and breathtaking precision. While wandering, Zatoichi discovers a remote mountain village at the mercy of Ginzo, a ..read more »
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from 21,029 members
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Dolls
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Tatsuya Mihashi, Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima
Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
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Three stories of undying love, as told by Bunraku Dolls (Japanese traditional puppets)... Matsumoto and Sawako was once a happy couple, but the pressures of meddling parents and success forces them to make a tragic choice. Hiro is an aging yakuza boss. Thirty years ago, he was a poor factory worker ..read more »
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from 2,924 members
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Kikujiro
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
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Multi-talented filmmaker Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano takes a break from the violent gangster films which made his name outside Japan to deliver this story of the friendship between a small boy and a washed-up yakusa. When young Masao (Yusuke Sekiguchi) discovers a picture of his long-lost mother at his ..read more »
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from 3,050 members
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Hana-Bi
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi
Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
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Actor and auteur Takeshi Kitano (who in Japan also uses the stage name Beat Takeshi, primarily for his work as a television comedian) wrote, directed, edited, and starred in this unusual crime drama. Nishi (Takeshi Kitano) is a policeman whose emotions seem to run only on two extreme paths -- ..read more »
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from 6,444 members
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Sonatine
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Ren Osugi
Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
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Original and elegaic Yakuza drama from cult actor-director Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano. Murakawa (Kitano) is a powerful and trusted gangster who is persuaded to travel to Okinawa to help clear up a dispute between rival gangs. The task proves anything but easy, and as bloody conflict erupts around him, ..read more »
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from 4,313 members
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The Bad Sleep Well
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Toshiro Mifune
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 »
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from 885 members
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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 »
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from 192 members
Not available for rental
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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 »
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from 117 members
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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 »
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from 1,022 member
Not available for rental
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The Lady Of Musashino
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Yukiko Todoroki, So Yamamura, Masayuki Mori
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi made this film, an evocative portrayal of life in post-war Japan, one year before his masterpiece 'The Life of O-Haru'. The film captures the tension between the moral decadence of the post-war era, and the traditional values of Japanese society. It tells the story ..read more »
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from 664 members
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The Idiot
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Setsuko Hara, Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's The Idiot, his only adaptation of a Fyodor Dostoevsky novel, was a cherished project on which it is claimed he expended more effort than on any other film. A darkly ambitious exploration of the depths of human emotion, it combines the talents of two of the greatest Japanese actors ..read more »
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from 793 members
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Rashomon
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Machiko Kyo, Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Set in feudal Japan, this film presents an intriguing tale of violent crime in the woods, told from the perspective of four different characters -- a bandit, a woman, her husband and a woodcutter. Only two things about the incident seem to be clear -- the woman was raped and her husband is now dead...read more »
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from 10,411 members
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Mikio Naruse Collection
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Masayuki Mori
Director: Mikio Naruse
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Three of Mikio Naruse's finest films, now widely regarded as among world cinema's greatest achievements. 'When a Woman Ascends the Stairs' (1960) is a heartbreaking tale of a middle-aged bar hostess's (Hideko Takamine) attempt to escape her existence set to a soundtrack of tinkling cocktail jazz ..read more »
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from 219 members
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