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1.Teahouse of the August Moon starring: Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyô, Eddie Albert, Paul Ford directed by: Daniel Mann September 01, 1998
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I remember waatching it with my mom. She loves it, so I surprised her one year a movie basket filled with all of her favorite oldies. This was one. They don't make them like this anymore!

2.Rashomon starring: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki directed by: Akira Kurosawa August 14, 2001
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Akira Kurosawa had been a filmmaker for almost a decade, since his 1943 debut film Sugata Sanshiro, and had some renown in his native Japan, when, in 1950, his film Rashomon rocketed him to international acclaim, including the Academy Award For Best Foreign Film, after winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival brought the film and its director, and Japanese cinema, a Western audience. He deserved every plaudit he received for it, as well as every ticket sold, because it is an excellent film. Yes, there are some flaws- minor, such as the all too sunny (literally) ending, and some of the over the top hammy acting of Toshiro Mifune as the bandit Tajomaru, but given what was coming out of Hollywood at the time- mind-numbing musicals and grade B comedies- Kurosawa brought filmmaking style ... Read More

3.Odd Obsession starring: Machiko Kyô, Ganjiro Nakamura, Junko Kano, Tatsuya Nakadai, Jun Hamamura directed by: Kon Ichikawa July 15, 1992
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One of Ichikawa's first films, marred by a bad ending. Four characters are involved in a strange menage-a-quatre: an aging man who has high blood pressure and is worried about his virility; his dutiful wife; a young doctor he "uses" as an aprodisiac; and his daughter who becomes jealous of her mother. The old man decides that seeing his wife dally with another man (the doctor) excites him, makes him feel younger; he talks her into continuing her philandering while he looks on. This "excitement" eventually kills him, but in the meantime his wife has come to enjoy her affair with the doctor and is not upset at her husband's death. Her daughter learns of the arrangement and becomes upset and jealous of her mother; this does little to alter her mother's behavior, however. At the end of the movie a maid ... Read More

4.Odd Obsession starring: Machiko Kyô, Ganjiro Nakamura, Junko Kano, Tatsuya Nakadai, Jun Hamamura directed by: Kon Ichikawa June 20, 2000
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One of Ichikawa's first films, marred by a bad ending. Four characters are involved in a strange menage-a-quatre: an aging man who has high blood pressure and is worried about his virility; his dutiful wife; a young doctor he "uses" as an aprodisiac; and his daughter who becomes jealous of her mother. The old man decides that seeing his wife dally with another man (the doctor) excites him, makes him feel younger; he talks her into continuing her philandering while he looks on. This "excitement" eventually kills him, but in the meantime his wife has come to enjoy her affair with the doctor and is not upset at her husband's death. Her daughter learns of the arrangement and becomes upset and jealous of her mother; this does little to alter her mother's behavior, however. At the end of the movie a maid suspects ... Read More

5.Floating Weeds starring: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Haruko Sugimura, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi directed by: Yasujiro Ozu June 06, 2000
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I love the visual of this movie. It's perfect. Everybody see it. I would give this movie as a gift for people who like colors.

6.Ugetsu starring: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarô Ozawa, Ikio Sawamura directed by: Kenji Mizoguchi June 13, 2000
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This is a great story of a man who dreams of being a great man of wealth and position in 15th century Japan. A man who is a farmer and a potter abandons his wife and child in war torn Japan to marry a woman with high status and who also turns out to be a ghost. He becomes a great samurai and wealthy, but what of his wife and child?

7.Face of Another English Subtitles starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Machiko Kyô, Mikijiro Hira, Kyôko Kishida, Eiji Okada directed by: Hiroshi Teshigahara October 25, 1989
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This is a great story of a man who dreams of being a great man of wealth and position in 15th century Japan. A man who is a farmer and a potter abandons his wife and child in war torn Japan to marry a woman with high status and who also turns out to be a ghost. He becomes a great samurai and wealthy, but what of his wife and child?

8.Street of Shame starring: Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Michiyo Kogure, Kumeko Urabe directed by: Kenji Mizoguchi March 28, 1991
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Set in Tokyo's red light district, specifically at the Dreamland brothel, the movie examines the lives of five prostitutes, focusing especially on their virtual enslavement to the prostitution system because they are never able to escape it economically and make it on the "outside." One woman attempts it by marrying a poor man, but finds married life to this man even more oppressive than prostitution. Another, a widow, has raised her son with the profits of her trade - only now that he's grown he is embarrassed by his mother and disowns her (she goes insane). It's a social protest movie against an economic (and societal) system that offers limited choices for women to make a living, other than in the world's oldest profession. Director Kenji Mizoguchi's poignant swan song, and he approaches his subject artfully and honestly. An ... Read More

9.Princess Yang Kwei Fei starring: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa directed by: Kenji Mizoguchi January 01, 1998
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I saw this film in New York -- I think at the New Yorker theater -- over 30 years ago. I saw it once again at some later date. It is a wonderfully touching, sad and all too human story with a Shakesperean quality about it, and the colors and fimography are dazzling. I am not a professional film critic, and I know Mizoguchi is highly ranked among Japanese directors, but I feel he should be even more highly ranked. How anyone could consider this film as less than an absolute materpiece is beyond me.

10.Gate of Hell starring: Machiko Kyô, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isao Yamagata, Yataro Kurokawa, Kôtarô Bandô directed by: Teinosuke Kinugasa June 06, 2000
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Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1953) The 1950s in Japan were a great time for costume dramas. Witness Gate of Hell (Jigokumon), Teinosuke Kinugasa's multi-Western-award-winning (Oscar: Best Foreign Film and Best Costume Design, New York Film Critics' Circle: Best Foreign Film, BAFTA Best Film, Cannes Grand Prize) flick about obsessive love and its inevitable end. Moritoh (Genji Monogatari's Kazuo Hasegawa) helps put down a revolt, and is rewarded with anything he desires. What he desires is the beautiful Kesa (Ugikusa's Machiko Kyo), but he finds out that Kesa is already married to another samurai, Wataru (Isao Yamagata of The Seven Samurai). This knowledge doesn't faze Moritoh in the least; he sets about trying to win Kesa's love by proving himself a better warrior than her husband. It is a good ... Read More

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