#Yûzô Kayama

[lostgoonie1980]

64. O Barba Ruiva (赤ひげ, 1965), dir. Akira Kurosawa

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have The Sword of Doom 1966 aka Dai-bosatsu tôge

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The Sword of Doom (1966)

My rating: 6/10

The parts that are a character piece about an utterly evil bastard who kills frequently and seemingly without remorse, until something inside him breaks and he goes on a final, deadly, and quite well-choreographed rampage, haunted by the many innocent lives he took, are quite good - there's some great atmosphere, and Tatsuya Nakadai is the broodingest brooder that ever brooded - but like many period pieces, this is framed inside a sociopolitical context full of intrigue that I couldn't quite bring myself to care about, and the ending is very abrupt and a bit unsatisfying.

[ozu-teapot]

Sanjuro | Akira Kurosawa | 1962

[diabolikdiabolik]

狙撃 - Sogeki - Sun Above, Death Below (1968)

[twilightronin]

Sanjuro (1962)

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Takamine Hideko 高峰秀子 (1925-2010) and Kayama Yûzô 加山 雄三 in Midareru 乱れる (Une femme dans la tourmente) - Japan - 1965 - Director Naruse Mikio 成瀬 巳喜男 (1905-1969) - French poster reedition - France - 2015

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How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death.

Screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto (April 18, 1918 -- July 19, 2018) was one of Akira Kurosawa’s least-known collaborators, if only because he was not part of the director’s photogenic actors. But Hashimoto was more than just a Kurosawa collaborator. The screenwriter was raised in the Japanese countryside and was discharged from military service in World War II because of tuberculosis -- forcing him to spend four years in a veterans’ hospital. A fellow patient one day handed Hashimoto a magazine on cinema and, poring through the contents, it was then Hashimoto decided to pursue a career in filmmaking. He sent a screenplay to Mansaku Itami (a major figure of 1930s Japanese cinema, but whose films have largely not been distributed to the West), who was so impressed that he became the young Hashimoto’s mentor until his death in 1946.

Rashômon was Hashimoto’s screenwriting debut (and what a hell of a debut). Over the next several decades, Hashimoto’s films -- regardless of the director or actors involved -- would explore humanity from its most altruistic to its most unconscionable moments of cruelty. Hashimoto retired in 1982, having been with Toho Company for almost the entirety of his career. He passed away at a hundred years old in July -- the last of Kurosawa’s regular screenwriters living, and arguably the dean of that entire group.

Nine of his films are pictured above (left-right, descending):

Rashômon (1950) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, and Minoru Chiaki

Ikiru (1952) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Takashi Shimura, Shin’ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri, and Bokuzen Hidari

Seven Samurai (1954) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Daisuke Katô, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Isao Kimura, Yoshio Tsuchiya, and Bokuzen Hidari

I Live in Fear (1955) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, and Minoru Chiaki

Throne of Blood (1957) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, and Minoru Chiaki

Harakiri (1963) -- directed by Masaki Kobayashi; also starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentarô Mikuni, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama, and Yoshio Inaba

The Sword of Doom (1966) -- directed by Kihachi Okamoto; also starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama, Michiyo Aratama, and Toshirô Mifune

Dodes’ka-den (1970) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami, and Yûkô Kusunoki

Hakkodasan (1977) -- directed by Shirô Moritani; also starring Shôgo Shimada, Ken Takakura, Hideji Ôtaki, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Tetsurô Tanba, Rentarô Mikuni, Komaki Kurihara, Akira Hamada, Mariko Kaga, and  Yûzô Kayama

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Chûshingura (1962) (Votes: 1706, rating: 7.8)

Watch popular movies with BlueBox: http://bit.ly/BlueBoxMovies. After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor. Director: Hiroshi Inagaki Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Chûsha Ichikawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Akira Takarada

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[heroesfromtheeast]

The Sword of Doom

[bookmonsterzero]

Scattered Clouds (1967/Mikio Naruse)

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"Akahige" (1965)

[ozu-teapot]

Sanjuro | Akira Kurosawa | 1962

[samuellbronko]

Red Beard (1965) - Akira Kurosawa

10/10

this Akira Kurosawa film went under the radar for me, it was just another known Kurosawa film that i must see one day... watching it 2 days after my dad's funeral was actually perfect timing, cause of the theme's of death, compassion, empathy & the overall humanity of story really resonated with me... it made me even look at how i have been dealing with Dad's illness in the final weeks and raise questions of my own selfish behaviour... masterful actor Toshiro Mifune is the almost mystical wise Red Beard - the lead doctor in a small town full of peasants and generally lower class, where his presence affects everyone like a god... when his new apprentice comes to town who is full of ego & great ideas, not willing to obey Red Beard rules etc, the doctor fresh out of an acclaimed medical school has to learn some important lessons of life, and medical methods aren't in text books... unorthodox methods Red Beard teaches him to be connected with the patient and give them what they need for their soul which helps them either survive or pass away peacefully... one of the most touching films on humanity i've ever seen but without being sentimental... this film will stay with you long after watching it... after doing extended reading on this film and further thought, i pushed it up to 10/10 alongside other Kurosawa masterpieces like Ikiru and High & Low... there's still so much of his catalog i have to explore as well as re-watch (Seven Samurai, Sanjiro, Yojimbo for starters), this was his last film with his star actor Mifune but im slowly coming to grasp that Kurosawa has many masterpieces (not just a couple like most greats do) & one of the true greats of cinema...

http://youtu.be/dSRkof0cP94

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The Sword of Doom (1966) (Votes: 7878, rating: 8.0)

Watch popular movies with BlueBox: http://bit.ly/BlueBoxMovies. Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely. Director: Kihachi Okamoto Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Naitô

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