54 years ago:
Goyokin (JP)
Original title: 御用金
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
1969-05-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/49355
#Goyokin #HideoGosha #TatsuyaNakadai #TetsurTamba #YkoTsukasa #Movies

53 years ago:
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (JP)
Original title: 無頼漢
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
1970-04-18
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/213692
#TheScandalousAdventuresofBuraikan #TatsuyaNakadai #ShimaIwashita #TetsurTamba #YoshiSugihara #WomenInFilm #ClassicMovies

61 years ago:
The Challenge (JP)
Original title: 誇り高き挑戦
Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of po...
1962-03-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/397043
#TheChallenge #KinjiFukasaku #KojiTsuruta #HitomiNakahara #TetsurTamba #ToeiCompany

63 years ago:
The Gambling Samurai (JP)
Original title: 国定忠治
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family. A final tragedy leads Kunisada to join with a band of rogues living in the forest in robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, always wit...
1960-03-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/403049
#TheGamblingSamurai #SenkichiTaniguchi #ToshirMifune #MichiyoAratama #TetsurTamba