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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Tatsuya Nakadai	Kaji	Michiyo Aratama	Michiko

  
    This presentation is divided into three parts, none of which are complete without the other two. Thus, the best reviews of this trilogy acknowledge the relationship among the parts. Below are two of the best reviews I've found for the trilogy:
    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
      Although the title above seems to indicate that it covers only the first part of the trilogy, the essay actually covers all three parts.
    The Human Condition Movie Trilogy Review: Japanese Cinema Classic
  
    The films in this trilogy are:
      
  
  No Greater Love
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Chikage Awashima	Tōfuku Kin	Ineko Arima	Shunran Yō	Sō Yamamura	Okishima	Keiji Sada	Kageyama

  
    Here is a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1959
    Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi.
      
  
  Road to Eternity
       

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Kokinji Katsura	Sasa Nitôhei	Jun Tatara	Hino Jun'i	Michirô Minami	Yoshida Jôtôhei	Kei Satô	Shinjô Ittôhei

  
    Here is a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film
    Release Date: 1959
    Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi.
      
  
  A Soldier's Prayer
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Tamao Nakamura	Hinannmin no Shôjo	Yûsuke Kawazu	Terada Nitôhei	Chishū Ryū	Hinanmin no Chôrô	Taketoshi Naitô	Tange Ittôhei

  
    Here is a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film
    Release Date: 1961
    Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi.
  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film series.
    Release Date: 1959 - 1961
    Directed by Masaki Kobayashi.

Labels: chishū-ryū, Criterion6, masaki-kobayashi, tatsuya-nakadai, war3

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  Actor	Role
  Shintaro Katsu	Zatoichi

  
  The episodes in this series are:
      
  
  The Tale of Zatoichi
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Masayo Banri	Otani	Ryuzo Shimada	Shigezo of the Sasagawa Yakuza	Gen Mitamura	Hanji of Matsugishi

  
  Release Date: 1962
  Directed by Kenji Misumi.
      
  
  The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Yoshie Mizutani	Osetsu	Masayo Banri	Otane	Tomisaburō Wakayama	Nagisa no Yoshirō

  
  Release Date: 1962
  Directed by Kazuo Mori.
      
  
  New Tale of Zatoichi
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Mikiko Tsubouchi	Yayoi	Seizaburō Kawazu	Banno	Fujio Suga	Yasuhiko

  
  Release Date: 1963
  Directed by Tokuzō Tanaka.
      
  
  Zatoichi the Fugitive
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Miwa Takada	ONobu	Masayo Banri	Otane	Junichiro Narita	Sakichi

  
  Release Date: 1963
  Directed by Tokuzō Tanaka.
      
  
  Zatoichi on the Road
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Shiho Fujimura	Mitsu	Ryuzo Shimada	Jingoro	Reiko Fujiwara	Hisa

  
  Release Date: 1963
  Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda.
      
  
  Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Shogo Shimada	Chuji Kunisada	Machiko Hasegawa	Ogin	Tomisaburo Wakayama	Jushiro

  
  Release Date: 1964
  Directed by Kazuo Ikehiro.
      
  
  Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Naoko Kubo	Okuni	Mayumi Nagisa	Oshizu	Takashi Edajima	Seiroku

  
  Release Date: 1964
  Directed by Kazuo Ikehiro.
      
  
  Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Nobuo Kaneko	Boss Unosuke	Gen Kimura	Hyaku	Chikara Hashimoto	Inozo

  
  Release Date: 1964
  Directed by Kenji Misumi.
      
  
  Adventures of Zatoichi
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Eiko Taki	Osen	Miwa Takada	Saki	Mikijiro Hira	Gounosuke

  
  Release Date: 1964
  Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda.
      
  
  Zatoichi's Revenge
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Norihei Miki	Denroku	Mikiko Tsubouchi	Osayo	Takeshi Kato	Koheita Kadokura

  
  Release Date: 1965
  Directed by Akira Inoue.
      
  
  Zatoichi and the Doomed Man
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Fujiyama Hyakutaro	Kanbi	Kenjiro Ishiyama	Boss Jubei Araiso	Masako Akeboshi	Ochiyo

  
  Release Date: 1965
  Directed by Kazuo Mori.
      
  
  Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Mikio Narita	Jumonji	Chizuru Hayashi	Kume	Kaneko Iwasaki	Otane

  
  Release Date: 1965
  Directed by Kenji Misumi.
      
  
  Zatoichi's Vengeance
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Shigeru Amachi	Kurobe	Jun Hamamura	Blind Priest	Gen Kimura	Tamekichi

  
  Release Date: 1966
  Directed by Tokuzō Tanaka.
      
  
  Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Michiyo Okusu	Okichi	Isao Yamagata	Boss Tohachi	Hisashi Igawa	Eigoro

  
  Release Date: 1966
  Directed by Kazuo Ikehiro.
      
  
  Zatoichi's Cane Sword
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Shiho Fujimura	Oshizu	Eijirō Tōno	Senzo	Yoshihiko Aoyama	Seikichi

  
  Release Date: 1967
  Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda.
      
  
  Zatoichi the Outlaw
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Rentarō Mikuni	Boss Asagoro	Kō Nishimura	Suga	Yuko Hamada	Oshino

  
  Release Date: 1967
  Directed by Satsuo Yamamoto.
      
  
  Zatoichi Challenged
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Jushiro Konoe	Akazuka	Miwa Takada	Omitsu	Yukiji Asaoka	Tomoe

  
  Release Date: 1967
  Directed by Kenji Misumi.
      
  
  Zatoichi and the Fugitives
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Takashi Shimura	Junan	Kayao Mikimoto	Oshizu	Kyosuke Machida	Ogano Genpachiro

  
  Release Date: 1968
  Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda.
      
  
  Samaritan Zatoichi
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Yoshiko Mita	Osode	Makoto Satô	Yasaburo Kashiwazaki	Kô Nishimura	Sosuke Saruya

  
  Release Date: 1968
  Directed by Kenji Misumi.
      
  
  Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Toshirô Mifune	'Yojimbo' Daisaku Sasa	Ayako Wakao	Umeno	Osamu Takizawa	Yasuke Eboshiya

  
  Release Date: 1970
  Directed by Kihachi Okamoto.
      
  
  Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Reiko Ōhara	Okiyo	Masayuki Mori	Dark Lord Yamikubo/Lord Yamikubo	Tatsuya Nakadai	Ronin

  
  Release Date: 1970
  Directed by Kenji Misumi.
      
  
  Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Jimmy Wang Yu	Wang Kang	Yūko Hama	Osen	Michie Terada	Oyone

  
  Release Date: 1971
  Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda & Hsu Tseng Hung.
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  Zatoichi at Large
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Rentarô Mikuni	Boss Tetsugoro	Hisaya Morishige	Constable Tobei	Etsushi Takahashi	Denjuro

  
  Release Date: 1972
  Directed by Kazuo Mori.
      
  
  Zatoichi in Desperation
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Kiwako Taichi	Nishikigi	Kyoko Yoshizawa	Kaede	Yasuhiro Koume	Shinkichi

  
  Release Date: 1972
  Directed by Kazuo Mori.
      
  
  Zatoichi's Conspiracy
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Yukiyo Toake	Miyo	Eiji Okada	Shinbei of Hitachiya	Kei Satô	Magistrate

  
  Release Date: 1973
  Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda.
  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the series. The Wikipedia write-ups for the individual episodes are attached to their titles.
    Release Date: 1962 - 1973
    Directed by Various - See each film in the list above.

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    In 1998 Roger Ebert wrote an interesting and thoughtful retrospective of Akira Kurosawa's work. If you're a fan, it's a great place for suggestions of other Akira Kurosawa movies to watch and contemplate.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Toshirô Mifune	Kingo Gondo	Tatsuya Nakadai	Insp Tokura	Kyōko Kagawa	Reiko Gondo	Tatsuya Mihashi	Kawanishi
  Kenjiro Ishiyama	Chief Det Taguchi	Isao Kimura	Det Arai	Takeshi Katō	Det Nakao	Yutaka Sada	Chauffeur Aoki
  Tsutomu Yamazaki	Ginjirô Takeuchi	Takashi Shimura	Chief of Investigations	Susumu Fujita	Mgr of Investigations	Yoshio Tsuchiya	Det Murata
  Jun Tazaki	National Shoes Publicity Dir Kamiya	Nobuo Nakamura	National Shoes Design Dep Dir Ishimaru	Yunosuke Ito	National Shoes Exec	Kamatari Fujiwara	Incineration Worker

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1963
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Labels: akira-kurosawa, Criterion5, neo-noirA, police-procedural, tatsuya-nakadai, toshirô-mifune

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Toshirô Mifune	Sanjuro Tsubaki	Tatsuya Nakadai	Hanbei Muroto	Yūzō Kayama	Iori Izaka	Reiko Dan	Chidori
  Takashi Shimura	Kurofuji	Kamatari Fujiwara	Takebayashi	Takako Irie	Mutsuta's wife	Sachio Sakai	Ashigaru

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1962
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Toshirô Mifune	Kuwabatake Sanjuro	Eijirō Tōno	Gonji	Tatsuya Nakadai	Unosuke	Kyū Sazanka	Ushitora

  
    One of Roger Ebert's Great Movies.
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1961
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Hideko Takamine	Keiko Yashiro	Masayuki Mori	Nobuhiko Fujisaki	Reiko Dan	Junko Inchihashi	Tatsuya Nakadai	Kenichi Komatsu
  Daisuke Katō	Matsukichi Sekine	Nakamura Ganjirō II	Goda	Eitaro Ozawa	Minobe	Keiko Awaji	Yuri

  
    Here's the link to the Wikipedia write-up of this film.
    Release Date: 1960
    Directed by Mikio Naruse.

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