List of the best Yunosuke Ito movies: Red Lion(1969), Samurai Assassin(1965), The Burmese Harp(1956), Sanjuro(1962) ... ...
Sports & Fitness, Adventure
Japan
1969
116 Minutes
Yunosuke Ito Shima Iwashita Shigeru Kohyama Toshirô Mifune Yûko Mochizuki Nobuko Otowa Etsushi Takahashi Takahiro Tamura No Terada Jitsuko Yoshimura
Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt ... See full summary »
Action
Japan
1965
122 Minutes
Michiyo Aratama Susumu Fujita Chusha Ichikawa Yunosuke Ito Keiju Kobayashi Koshiro Matsumoto Toshirô Mifune Takashi Shimura Haruko Sugimura Nami Tamura Kaoru Yachigusa
February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled ... See full summary »
War
1956
116 Minutes
Shôji Yasui Rentarô Mikuni Tatsuya Mihashi Tanie Kitabayashi Yunosuke Ito
japanese soldier british soldier monk brutal gripping gutsy solemn burma cave buddhism spiritual journey pacifism world war ii quest transformation fall 1940s
Kon Ichikawa's anti-war parable about a Japanese soldier burying his fallen comrades at the end of World War II.
Adventure, Action
Japan
1962
96 Minutes
Toshirô Mifune Tatsuya Nakadai Takashi Shimura Yûzô Kayama Reiko Dan Masao Shimizu Yunosuke Ito Takako Irie Kamatari Fujiwara Keiju Kobayashi
samurai uncle warrior anti-hero gang member intricate suspenseful small town barn japan corruption revenge rescue disillusionment loyalty tradition fall rise 19th century
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.