3 Movies Starring Keiju Kobayashi

Sanjuro

Sanjuro

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1963-05-07

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (18367 Reviews)

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Cast:

Writer:

Ryèzè Kikushima (screenplay)

Hideo Oguni (screenplay)

Akira Kurosawa (screenplay)

Shègorè Yamamoto (novel)

Fullplot:

A group of idealistic young men, determined to clean up the corruption in their town, are aided by a scruffy, cynical samurai who does not at all fit their concept of a noble warrior.

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1970-04-15

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

122 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (220 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant code of action and behavior. Kondo leads the band against the forces of the Emperor in hopes of preventing his restoration to the throne.

Godzilla 1985

Godzilla 1985

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-08-23

Languages:

Japanese, Russian, English

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (3928 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Hideichi Nagahara

Tomoyuki Tanaka (story)

Lisa Tomei (english version)

Straw Weisman (US version)

Fullplot:

A reporter investigates the disappearance of a ship. He finds the ship and discovers that all the hands have been killed by a giant sea louse except for one. The lone survivor then tells the reporter that the ship was attacked by Godzilla (Gojira). Fearing a panic, the Japanese government then takes the survivor into custody to keep him from revealing that Godzilla has returned. However, a Soviet nuclear submarine is destroyed and the situation puts them and the United States on the brink of nuclear war, until the Japanese decide to come clean and admit that it was Godzilla. Soon the Japan and the rest of the world are on red alert as they wait for Godzilla to begin his rampage anew.

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