Mitsuo Kaneko

Movies

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'
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Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (1954).
Bitterness of Youth
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A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.
Golden Eyes
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A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo.
Operation Mad Dog
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Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda
The Weed of Crime
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Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.
Challenge to Live
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An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during the Pacific War. Matters are complicated further when he falls in love with the soldier's younger sister (Tsukasa).
Get 'em All
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Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.
Bright Young Maidens
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Jacks and Jills
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Seven Samurai
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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.