Shôichi Hirose films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 9 films on Boxlist

Known for Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Ikiru.

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Starring Shôichi Hirose

Seven Samurai
1954 · Film
8.5/10 · TMDB
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, and the villagers provide...
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Yojimbo
1961 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk...
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Ikiru
1952 · Film
8.4/10 · TMDB
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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The Hidden Fortress
1958 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Japanese peasants Matashichi and Tahei try and fail to make a profit from a tribal war. They find a man and woman whom they believe are simple tribe members hiding in a fortress. Although the peasants don't know that Rokurota is a general...
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Sanjuro
1962 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors...
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Lady Snowblood
1973 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her...
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Red Beard
1965 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous...
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
1964 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A meteor lands in Kurobe Valley as detective Shindo is assigned to protect Princess Salno from assassination. She emerges under the guise of a Venusian prophetess and catches the attention of journalist Naoko and Mothra's fairies by...
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Invasion of Astro-Monster
1965 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world from "Monster Zero". In exchange for borrowing Godzilla and Rodan, the Xiliens offer a...
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