Masayuki Yui
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1947-09-21
Locus Natus: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Et ut: 油井昌由樹
To End All Wars
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest...
release : 2001.09.02popularis : 10.419
Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...
release : 1980.04.26popularis : 14.53
Madadayo
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...
release : 1993.04.17popularis : 9.065
Tokyo Eyes
The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.
release : 1998.09.09popularis : 7.147
A Class to Remember II
The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.
release : 1996.11.19popularis : 4.998
Ran
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...
release : 1985.06.01popularis : 23.58
Dreams
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
release : 1990.05.11popularis : 12.452
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962).
release : 2002.10.25popularis : 0.952
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (1954).
release : 2002.10.25popularis : 0.986
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: Dodes'ka-den
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Dodes'ka-den" (1970).
release : 2002.10.25popularis : 0.69
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).
release : 2002.10.25popularis : 1.131
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: The Bad Sleep Well
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960).
release : 2002.10.25popularis : 1.149
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Throne of Blood" (1957).
release : 2002.10.25popularis : 0.694
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: Drunken Angel
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Drunken Angel" (1948).
release : 2002.10.25popularis : 0.673
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).
release : 2002.10.25popularis : 0.596
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: Stray Dog
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray Dog" (1949).
release : 2002.10.25popularis : 0.846
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: The Lower Depths
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Lower Depths" (1957).
release : 2002.10.25popularis : 1.978
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "High and Low" (1963).
release : 2002.10.25popularis : 1.144
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Kagemusha" (1980).
release : 2002.10.25popularis : 0.941
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Yojimbo" (1961).
release : 2002.10.25popularis : 0.641
Cicada
Cicada is the story of Jumpei-- a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but then is given the gift of clairvoyance...
release : 2014.05.04popularis : 2.675
Bicycle
A co-worker confronts Mamoru on his apparent apathy toward life, and this results in Mamoru leaving his job out of humiliation. Now alone and without...
release : 2009.05.15popularis : 0.456
Persimmon
Tamotsu is expecting a persimmon to dry and yet he cannot accept that it is time for a man on his deathbed to die. As the persimmon mysteriously, or...
release : 2011.08.11popularis : 1.302
Through the Night
When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out...
release : 2002.11.02popularis : 1.852
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the...
release : 2012.05.12popularis : 6.532
Tora-san Goes North
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged...
release : 1987.08.15popularis : 4.089
Sword of Desperation
A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the...
release : 2010.07.10popularis : 4.195