List of the best Minoru Chiaki movies: The Human Condition 2: The Road to Eternity(1959), The Hidden Fortress(1958), Gigantis, the Fire Monster(1955), Throne of Blood(1957), Rashomon(1950), The Lower Depths(1957), Seven Samurai(1954), The Face of Another(1966), I Live in Fear(1955), Naniwa no Koi no Monogatari(1959) ... ...
War, Drama, History
1959
112 Minutes
Onodera
Tatsuya Nakadai Michiyo Aratama Minoru Chiaki Izumi Hara Kaneko Iwasaki Kokinji Katsura Yusuke Kawazu Hideo Kidokoro Mayumi Kurata Michio Minami Taketoshi Naito
Comedy
1958
139 Minutes
Tahei
Toshirô Mifune Misa Uehara Minoru Chiaki Kamatari Fujiwara Susumu Fujita Takashi Shimura
general peasant princess wife young girl amusing rousing thrilling battlefield japan forest fort dangerous assignment expedition gold war adventure quest middle ages
Two medieval misfits help a beaten Japanese warlord (Toshirô Mifune) and his princess (Misa Uehara) escape with the royal gold.
Sci-Fi
1955
78 Minutes
Kôji Kobayashi
Hiroshi Koizumi Setsuko Wakayama Minoru Chiaki Takashi Shimura Masao Shimizu Seijiro Onda Sonosuke Sawamura Yoshio Tsuchiya
godzilla spotter suspenseful frightening coast japan raids fire monsters rivalry prehistoric
Drama
1957
108 Minutes
Yoshiaki Miki
Toshirô Mifune Isuzu Yamada Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki Akira Kubo Takamaru Sasaki Chieko Naniwa
samurai lord wife son rival gripping chilling japan castle forest ambition assassination revenge fall transformation 15th century
A Japanese version of "Macbeth" features a samurai (Toshirô Mifune), his scheming wife (Isuzu Yamada) and a flurry-of-arrows finale.
Drama
Japan
1950
88 Minutes
Priest
Toshirô Mifune Machiko Ky? Masayuki Mori Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki Kichijiro Ueda Daisuke Kato Noriko Honma
husband assassin criminal samurai priest ghost crafty intricate witty suspenseful japan forest suicide rape assassination justice crime mystery pursuit 12th century
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
Drama
Japan
1957
125 Minutes
Tonosama
Toshirô Mifune Isuzu Yamada Kyoko Kagawa Ganjirô Nakamura Minoru Chiaki Kamatari Fujiwara Akemi Negishi Nijiko Kiyokawa Kôji Mitsui Eijiro Tono Haruo Tanaka
landlady thief sister husband actor gambler striking passionate boardinghouse japan infidelity jealousy love triangle sibling rivalry poverty decadence rivalry revenge 19th century
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Action
1954
208 Minutes
Heihachi Hayashida
Toshirô Mifune Takashi Shimura Yoshio Inaba Seiji Miyaguchi Minoru Chiaki Daisuke Kato Isao Kimura Kunihori Kodo Kamatari Fujiwara Yoshio Tsuchiya
samurai villager bandit monk farmer tense intricate village japan honor kidnapping showdown violence father/daughter relationship hope rescue quest rivalry sacrifice 16th century
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.
Drama
Japan
1966
124 Minutes
Apartment caretaker
Tatsuya Nakadai Miki Irie Mikijir? Hira Kyôko Kishida Eiji Okada Machiko Ky? Minoru Chiaki Robert Dunham Etsuko Ichihara Beverly Maeda Eiko Muramatsu
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Drama
1955
105 Minutes
Jiro
Toshirô Mifune Eiko Miyoshi Haruko Tôgô Masao Shimizu Yutaka Sada Noriko Sengoku Minoru Chiaki Kyôko Aoyama Akemi Negishi Kichijiro Ueda Takashi Shimura
factory worker business owner doctor counselor old man wife bleak disheartening moving japan court house nuclear war fear family dysfunction insanity escape fall underdog 1950s
Believing that nuclear holocaust is imminent, an elderly industrialist (Toshirô Mifune) decides to move his family to Brazil.
Drama, Romance
Japan
1959
105 Minutes
Kinnosuke Nakamura Ineko Arima Kinuyo Tanaka Hiromi Hanazono Eitarô Shindô Chieko Naniwa Harue Akagi Sumiko Hidaka Minoru Chiaki Eijiro Tono Chiezo Kataoka
A wealthy man falls in love with a prostitute.