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Ikiru ***** (1952, Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki, Miki Odagiri, Kamatari Fujiwara, Makoto Koburi) – Classic Movie Review 11,777
Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 black and white Japanese masterwork Ikiru [Living] [Doomed] is a gloomy but extremely affecting portrait of Japanese society through the story of an obscure old civil servant who finds he has […]
Red Beard [Akahige] *** (1965, Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Terumi Niki) – Classic Movie Review 11,719
Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1965 Japanese film Red Beard [Akahige] stars Toshiro Mifune as Dr Kyojō Niide, a grizzled elderly town doctor nicknamed Red Beard, who introduces his young and arrogant new trainee intern Dr Noboru […]
Call Me Mister **½ (1951, Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny Thomas, Dale Robertson, Richard Boone, Jeffrey Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 11,292
Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1951 20th Century Fox Technicolor musical Call Me Mister stars Betty Grable and Dan Dailey in their fourth and final pairing after Mother Wore Tights in 1947, When My Baby Smiles at Me […]
Kong vs Godzilla [Kingu Kongu tai Gojira] ** (1962, Tadao Takashima, Yû Fujiki, Kenji Sahara) – Classic Movie Review 11,179
Director Ishirō Honda’s quaint and hysterical but fondly remembered 1962 Japanese kaiju monster movie King Kong vs Godzilla [Kingu Kongu tai Gojira] is the third film in the Godzilla franchise, and the first of two […]
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo *** (1944, Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Murdock, Scott McKay, Don DeFore, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 10,333
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1944 black-and-white war drama Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a careful version of the events surrounding the US bombing of Tokyo in 1942 in The Doolittle Raid, a secret bombing mission to […]
An Autumn Afternoon [Sanma no aji] **** (1962, Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada) – Classic Movie Review 9672
Yasujirô Ozu’s elegant and elegiac final film An Autumn Afternoon (1962) serves as a fine epitaph for one of the world’s great directors. In the autumn of his life, Yasujirô Ozu directed the elegant and […]
The Bushido Blade ** (1981, Richard Boone, Toshirô Mifune, Frank Converse, Mike Starr) – Classic Movie Review 9498
‘BUSHIDO means revenge – BUSHIDO means bloodshed – BUSHIDO means violent death!’ Director Tsugunobu [Tom] Kotani’s 19th-century-set Kung Fu action thriller The Bushido Blade [The Bloody Bushido Blade](1981) stars Richard Boone as Commodore Matthew Perry, […]