7 Movies Starring Yoshio Harada

Pastoral Hide and Seek

Pastoral Hide and Seek

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1974-12-28

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

104 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (556 Reviews)

Director:

Shèji Terayama

Genres:

DramaFantasy

Fullplot:

A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

Tsigoineruwaizen

Tsigoineruwaizen

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-04-01

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

144 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (467 Reviews)

Director:

Seijun Suzuki

Cast:

Writer:

Yèzè Tanaka

Hyakken Uchida (novel)

Fullplot:

Onibi

Onibi

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-04-19

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

101 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (164 Reviews)

Fullplot:

A yakuza hitman gets out of jail and decides to start a new life, but soon his old life catches up with him.

Rènin-gai

Rènin-gai

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-08-18

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

117 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (381 Reviews)

Genres:

ActionDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Itarè Yamagami (story)

Kazuo Kasahara (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A group of masterless samurai living in Edo's red light district must fend off a militia bent on wiping out local prostitutes.

9 Souls

9 Souls

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-07-19

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

120 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (1287 Reviews)

Director:

Toshiaki Toyoda

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Nine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murders. They commandeer a van from a strip club. Their plan is to find a stash of counterfeit money that a deranged cell mate told them about, divide it, then part ways. They make it to the site where the money is supposed to be hidden, and then one by one, each seeks out the place he wants to be, a version of home, somewhere to connect. Will it end well for any of them?

Dororo

Dororo

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-03-15

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

139 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (2045 Reviews)

Director:

Akihiko Shiota

Cast:

Writer:

Osamu Tezuka (comic)

Masa Nakamura (screenplay)

Akihiko Shiota (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In the year 3048, the wounded Lord Kagemitsu Daigo proposes a deal to rule the whole world to forty-eight demons in their sealed temple. In return, the demons ask forty-eight parts of the body of his unborn son. When the mutilated baby is born, his mother puts him in a basket in the river flow to save his life. The baby survives and becomes the demon slayer Hyakkimaru that slash demons to retrieve his body parts. During his journey, he meets the female thief Dororo, who was raised as a boy after the death of her parents by the evil Lord Daigo, in a small town and she befriends Hyakkimaru and joins him in his quest seeking revenge against the Daigo's clan.

I Wish

I Wish

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-06-11

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

128 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (3468 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Hirokazu Koreeda (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In Kagoshima, the boy Koichi lives with his mother Nozomi in the house of his grandparents. Koichi misses his younger brother Ryunosuke and his father Kenji, who live in Fukuoka, and he dreams on his family coming together again. One day, Koichi overhears that the energy released by two bullet trains passing by each other would grant wishes and he invites his two best friends, Tasuku and Makoto, to travel to the point of intersection of the two trains. Koichi also tells his plan to Ryunosuke that invites his three best friends to join him. Soon the seven children arrive to the meeting point in the journey of discoveries.

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