73 years ago:
Scandal (JP)
Original title: 醜聞
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
1950-04-30
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/32690
#Scandal #AkiraKurosawa #ToshirMifune #NorikoSengoku #TakashiShimura #YoshiSugihara #WomenInFilm #ClassicMovies

64 years ago:
Samurai Saga (JP)
Original title: 或る剣豪の生涯
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
1959-04-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/186624
#SamuraiSaga #ToshirMifune #YkoTsukasa #AkiraTakarada #Movies

57 years ago:
Adventure in Kigan Castle (JP)
Original title: 奇巌城の冒険
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in the Middle East, where they find intrigue and romance in the court of an evil king.
1966-04-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/84854
#AdventureinKiganCastle #ToshirMifune #MieHama #AkikoWakabayashi #ClassicFilm

75 years ago:
Drunken Angel (JP)
Original title: 酔いどれ天使
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convince Matsunaga to stay for treatment, which would drastically change his lifestyle. They form an uneasy friendship until Matsunaga's old boss Okada ret...
1948-04-27
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/25858
#DrunkenAngel #AkiraKurosawa #TakashiShimura #ToshirMifune #MichiyoKogure #Film

69 years ago:
Seven Samurai (JP)
Original title: 七人の侍
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
1954-04-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/346
#SevenSamurai #AkiraKurosawa #ToshirMifune #TakashiShimura #YoshioInaba #ClassicMovies

63 years ago:
Storm Over the Pacific (JP)
Original title: ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the e...
1960-04-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/144537
#StormOverthePacific #YsukeNatsuki #ToshirMifune #KojiTsuruta

62 years ago:
Yojimbo (JP)
Original title: 用心棒
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a pers...
1961-04-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11878
#Yojimbo #AkiraKurosawa #ToshirMifune #TatsuyaNakadai #YkoTsukasa #Movies

53 years ago:
Incident at Blood Pass (JP)
Original title: 待ち伏せ
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the pass. When the Ronin's assignment becomes clear, to help...
1970-04-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/20528
#IncidentatBloodPass #ToshirMifune #RurikoAsaoka #ShintarKatsu #Film

65 years ago:
The Rickshaw Man (JP)
Original title: 無法松の一生
The story of Muhōmatsu, a rickshaw man who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman.
1958-04-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43121
#TheRickshawMan #ToshirMifune #HidekoTakamine #HiroshiAkutagawa #Film

71 years ago:
The Life of Oharu (JP)
Original title: 西鶴一代女
In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
1952-04-17
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43364
#TheLifeofOharu #KenjiMizoguchi #KinuyoTanaka #ToshirMifune #EitarShind #Movies

58 years ago:
Red Beard (JP)
Original title: 赤ひげ
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He grad...
1965-04-03
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3780
#RedBeard #AkiraKurosawa #ToshirMifune #YûzôKayama #TsutomuYamazaki #Movies

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

74 years ago:
The Quiet Duel (JP)
Original title: 静かなる決闘
Toshirō Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father's (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he ...
1949-03-19
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/37513
#TheQuietDuel #AkiraKurosawa #ToshirMifune #TakashiShimura #Film

60 years ago:
High and Low (JP)
Original title: 天国と地獄
An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
1963-03-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12493
#HighandLow #AkiraKurosawa #ToshirMifune #TatsuyaNakadai #KykoKagawa #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

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
#SamuraiBanners #ToshirMifune #YoshikoSakuma #KinnosukeNakamura #ClassicFilm #Movies

57 years ago:
The Sword of Doom (JP)
Original title: 大菩薩峠
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.
1966-02-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/19884
#TheSwordofDoom #KihachiOkamoto #TatsuyaNakadai #ToshirMifune #KunieTanaka #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

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
#TheAmbitious #KinnosukeNakamura #ToshirMifune #TatsuyaNakadai #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies