A wanderer returns home and finds himself torn between a desire for acceptance and revenge in an early Tai Kato jidaigeki, Wind, Woman and Road. https://wp.me/p1x9li-jLx

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60 years ago:
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (JP)
Original title: 武士道残酷物語
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
1963-04-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/90299
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58 years ago:
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan (JP)
Original title: 冷飯とおさんとちゃん
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
1965-04-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/360461
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62 years ago:
An Edo Magistrate (JP)
Original title: 江戸っ子奉行 天下を斬る男
When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss in a crooked gambling casino it sets in motion the story of Ooka Echizen, the famed magistrate of Edo during the reign of Shogun Tsuneyoshi. In a world where humans bow down to dogs and are behea...
1961-03-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/435196
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54 years ago:
Samurai Banners (JP)
Original title: 風林火山
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrange...
1969-03-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/49363
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53 years ago:
The Ambitious (JP)
Original title: 幕末
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in ord...
1970-02-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/284011
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A lonely yakuza longs to reconnect with mainstream society by finding the mother who was forced to abandon him in Tai Kato's hugely moving jidaigeki, In Search of Mother. https://wp.me/p1x9li-hQZ

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