List of the best Masao Mishima movies: Okaasan(1952), Lucky Dragon No. 5(1959), Hara-Kiri(1963) ... ...
Drama
Japan
1952
100 Minutes
Kinuyo Tanaka Masao Mishima Akihiko Katayama Kyoko Kagawa Eiji Okada
mother husband daughter sister son japanese man melodramatic tender moving japan family home street factory mother/daughter relationship family postwar japan poverty marriage hard times sacrifice
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Japan
1959
115 Minutes
Jukichi Uno Nobuko Otowa Harold Conway Masao Mishima Kikue Môri Yasushi Nagata Taketoshi Naito Eitarô Ozawa Koreya Senda Taiji Tonoyama
The story of a Japanese fishing boat whose crew were accidental victims of fallout from the Bikini hydrogen bomb tests.
Drama
Japan
1963
135 Minutes
Tango Inaba
Tatsuya Nakadai Shima Iwashita Akira Ishihama Yoshio Inaba Rentarô Mikuni Masao Mishima
samurai guard landowner daughter solemn brooding intricate striking japan feudal home revenge honor culture clash family death sacrifice fall revenge 17th century
When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.