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
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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
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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
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