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- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
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Onibaba [The Hole] ***** (1964, Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô) – Classic Movie Review 2809
Writer-director Kaneto Shindo’s ultra-thrilling, scary and imaginative 1964 Japanese horror story is a brilliant original. Shindo’s plot is about a 14th century Japanese mother and her daughter-in-law, grieving for their beloved son and husband, who […]
The Yakuza ***** (1974, Robert Mitchum, Takakura Ken, Brian Keith) – Classic Movie Review 2,716
Sydney Pollack’s startling 1974 neo-noir gangster thriller film The Yakuza is the stomach-churning tale of Japanese crime syndicate members who abduct a wealthy American businessman’s daughter. Robert Mitchum stars as the ex-GI assigned to trace […]
Ronin *** (1998, Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgaard, Sean Bean, Michel Lonsdale, Jonathan Pryce, Jan Triska) – Classic Movie Review 718
A 1998 noir-style action thriller with a great cast and some sensational car chases, Ronin is about a group of five mercenaries, headed by ex CIA man Sam (Robert De Niro), hired to ambush a convoy of […]
47 Ronin *** (2013, Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ko Shibasaki) – Movie Review
Keanu Reeves stars as the noble mixed-race ronin Kai, who along with the Japanese hero Oishi, gathers together a band of samurai to avenge the death and dishonour of their master at the hands of a ruthless […]
The Last Samurai **** (2003, Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall, Tony Goldwyn) – Classic Movie Review 379
With a flash of his pearly whites and his big Samurai sword, Tom Cruise enjoyed in 2003 perhaps his most complex and demanding role so far as Captain Nathan Algren. Having battled in the US […]
Rashomon ***** (1950, Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori) – Classic Movie Review 134
Writer-director Akira Kurosawa’s and his country Japan’s breakthrough into world cinema is his great Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film (1952). It was also the winner of the 1951 Golden Lion best film award at the […]