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Shogun's Samurai review by Stevieb47 from poole

Epic Stuff 30 January 2005
...Kinji Fukasaku was one of Japan's most prolific directors - its ironic that his breakthrough movie in the West was the last one he made before his death at the age of 73 - th... Read customer review

Battle Royale 2 - Requiem on DVD (2003)
Starring: Fujiwara Tatsuya, Shugo Oshinari
Director: Kinji Fukasaku, Kenta Fukasaku
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Set three years following the events portrayed in 'Battle Royale', one of the survivors, Shuya Nanahara, has become a notorious anti-government terrorist. Leading the group 'Wild Seven' he has declared war on the adults who enforce the BR Act. To counteract this the government creates a new act, ..read more »

50% from 8,569 members

Battle Royale - Blu-ray (3 discs) (2000)
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation's youth is spiralling out of control. With school children boycotting their lessons and physically abusing their teachers, a beleagured and near-defeated ..read more »

77% from 1,154 member

Battle Royale on DVD (2000)
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation's youth is spiralling out of control. With school children boycotting their lessons and physically abusing their teachers, a beleaguered and near-defeated ..read more »

73% from 26,275 members

The Geisha House on DVD (1999)
Starring: Junko Fuji, Mai Kitajima, Maki Miyamoto
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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Kinji Fukasaku's drama follows the plight of a young girl abducted by a middle-aged man.

56% from 622 members

The Triple Cross on DVD (1992)
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Kenichi Hagiwara, Kazuya Kimura
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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In Kenji Fukasaku's darkly comic crime film, THE TRIPLE CROSS, a trio of aging gangsters (Sonny Chiba, Kenichi Hagiwara, and Renji Ishibashi) face off against younger thugs and pull a heist that's complicated by numerous betrayals and conflicts.

54% from 189 members

Sure Death Revenge on DVD (1987)
Starring: Makoto Fujita, Kunihiko Mitamura, Hiroaki Murakami
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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A gang of wild samurai start terrorising the local peasants and Mondo Nakamura and his band of assassins must team up with eccentric top spinning avenger Bunshichi (Sonny Chiba) to stop them. But the samurai are only the start of the corruption that may lead all the way to the Shogun himself!

47% from 74 members

Virus on DVD (1980)
Starring: Glenn Ford, Robert Vaughn, Olivia Hussey
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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As the result of a private plane crash, a deadly chemical warfare weapon is unleashed on the unsuspecting world. Soon thereafter, the only humans left alive are the members of international antarctic research teams.

44% from 435 members

Shogun's Samurai on DVD (1978)
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Etsuko Shihomi, Yoshio Harada
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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Set in feudal Japan, SHOGUN'S SAMURAI is Kinji Fukasaku's story of a brutal imperial struggle. The legendary samurai epic stars Sonny Chiba as one of the two sons of the recently deceased instructor of the Shogun. After the death of their father, the two men lock horns in a struggle for the ..read more »

61% from 604 members

Graveyard Of Honour on DVD (1975)
Starring: Junko Fuji, Mai Kitajima, Kaho Minami
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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Kinji Fukasaku presents another yakuza thriller with GRAVEYARD OF HONOUR. Rikio Ishikawa finds himself in hiding from the entire Yakuza world after he attacks his Godfather, he is forced into hiding, but there he plots his return to power...

57% from 249 members

Yakuza Papers (1973)
Starring: Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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This Japanese yakuza film, starring Bunta Sugawara, has been likened to THE GODFATHER, as it follows a group of gangsters struggling for power and survival.

59% from 231 members
Not available for rental

Cops vs Thugs on DVD (1973)
Starring: Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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It's the police against the yakuza in Kinji Fukasaku's gripping thriller, starring Bunta Sugawara.

54% from 166 members

Street Mobster on DVD (1972)
Starring: Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Ando, Mayumi Nagisa
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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STREET MOBSTER is another intriguing yakuza tale from prolific director Kinji Fukasaku.

53% from 129 members

Tora! Tora! Tora! on DVD (1970)
Starring: Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, E.G. Marshall
Director: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masu
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This 25-million dollar epic collaboration accurately recreates the events that led to the Japanese attack on the American naval base during World War II. With Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the wheels are set in motion by Japan to plan the attack. After internal differences in ..read more »

69% from 2,329 members

Tora! Tora! Tora! - Blu-ray (1970)
Starring: James Whitmore Jr., Tatsuya Mihashi, Koreya Senda
Director: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masu
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A Japanese-American co-production, director Richard Fleischer (SOYLENT GREEN) and two Japanese directors put together this ultrarealistic account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor as presented from the perspectives of both nations, as diplomatic tensions rise between the two countries. While the ..read more »

66% from 39 members
Not available for rental

Japan Organised Crime Boss on DVD (1969)
Starring: Bunta Sugawara, Koji Tsurata, Noboru Ando
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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When Yokohama Yakuza member Tsukamoto is released from jail, he plans on a quiet life away from the criminal underworld. However, when his boss is assassinated as part of a vicious power struggle between rival Yakuza clans, he is forced to act.

58% from 161 members

Fukasaku Trilogy (3 discs) on DVD
Starring: Akihiro Miwa, Eitaro Ozawa, Masakazu Tamura
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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Collection of three early classics from renowned Japanese filmmaker, Kinji Fukasaku, director of BATTLE ROYALE. Includes BLACKMAIL IS MY LIFE, BLACK ROSE MANSION and IF YOU WERE YOUNG.

52% from 39 members

Battle Royale 2 - Requiem - 2.5 stars
Battle Royale - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Battle Royale - 3.5 stars
The Geisha House - 3.0 stars
The Triple Cross - 2.5 stars

Battle Royale - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Battle Royale - 3.5 stars
Tora! Tora! Tora! - 3.5 stars
Shogun's Samurai - 3.0 stars
Yakuza Papers - 3.0 stars

Fukasaku Trilogy - 2.5 stars
Tora! Tora! Tora! - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Virus - 2.0 stars
Sure Death Revenge - 2.5 stars
Battle Royale 2 - Requiem - 2.5 stars

Takeshi Kitano - 8 times - show films
Takayo Mimura - 8 times - show films
Takashi Tsukamoto - 8 times - show films
Yutaka Shimada - 8 times - show films
Yukihiro Kotani - 8 times - show films

Toshio Masu - 3 times - show films
Richard Fleischer - 3 times - show films
Kenta Fukasaku - 1 times - show films