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Shogun Warrior ** (1991, Shô Kosugi, David Essex, Christopher Lee, Polly Walker, Ronald Pickup, John Rhys-Davies, Kane Kosugi, Norman Lloyd, Dylan Kussman, Miwa Takada, Toshirô Mifune) – Classic Movie Review 13,730
The 1991 film Shogun Warrior [Kabuto] [Journey of Honor] is a robust and enjoyable but rough-hewn action adventure based on actual events in 17th-century Japan. It stars Shô Kosugi, David Essex and Christopher Lee. Director […]
The Bushido Blade ** (1981, Richard Boone, Toshirô Mifune, Frank Converse, Mike Starr) – Classic Movie Review 9498
‘BUSHIDO means revenge – BUSHIDO means bloodshed – BUSHIDO means violent death!’ Director Tsugunobu [Tom] Kotani’s 19th-century-set Kung Fu action thriller The Bushido Blade [The Bloody Bushido Blade](1981) stars Richard Boone as Commodore Matthew Perry, […]
The Challenge ** (1982, Scott Glenn, Toshirô Mifune, Donna Kei Benz, Atsuo Nakamura) – Classic Movie Review 8525
Director John Frankenheimer’s 1982 American-Japanese macho action movie The Challenge stars Scott Glenn as the down-and-out American boxer Rick, paid to take an inherited sword from the States to Japan and finding himself caught in […]
Kagemusha ***** (1980, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu) – Classic Movie Review 6426
The great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa is on commanding form in this thrilling 1980 film from his older age (he was 70) with a story about a 16th-century nobleman who saves the life of a […]
Blade of the Immortal [Mugen no jûnin] *** (2017, Takuya Kimura, Hana Sugisaki, Sôta Fukushi) – Movie Review
The hundredth film by master director Takashi Miike is Blade of the Immortal [Mugen no jûnin], which stars Takuya Kimura as skilled samurai Manji, cursed by some ancient crone with immortality after a legendary battle in which he more […]
Sanjuro [Tsubaki Sanjûrô] ****½ (1962, Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi) – Classic Movie Review 4925
Co-writer/ director Akira Kurosawa is in a much lighter mood for his follow-up to Yojimbo. But it is another thrilling action-filled samurai action adventure, with the great Toshirô Mifune on his best form in the title […]
Yojimbo ***** (1961, Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai) – Classic Movie Review 4924
Co-writer/ director Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 Japanese adventure stars Toshiro Mifune as crafty wandering samurai Sanjuro Kuwabatake, who hires himself out as a professional killer and bodyguard (yojimbo in Japanese) to both sides of gangsters in a […]