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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Rashomon Japan 1950 Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Toshiro Mifune Machiko Kyo Masayuki Mori Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki Ryûnosuke Akutagawa (Writer) Kurosawa looks at the blackness of the human heart (Tuesday, November 13, 2012)
	Seven Samurai Japan 1954 Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Toho Co. (Production Company) Takashi Shimura Toshiro Mifune Yoshio Inaba Seiji Miyaguchi Minoru Chiaki Daisuke Katō Isao Kimura Keiko Tsushima Tatsuya Nakadai Shinobu Hashimoto (Writer) Hideo Oguni (Writer) Asakazu Nakai (Cinematographer) Fumio Hayasaka (Soundtrack) One of the best films ever made (Friday, January 31, 2003)
	Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto Japan 1954 Hiroshi Inagaki (Director) Toshiro Mifune Rentarô Mikuni Kuroemon Onoe Kaoru Yachigusa Mariko Okada Mitsuko Mito Eiko Miyoshi Jun Yasumoto (Cinematographer) One of the classic samurai films (Sunday, August 9, 2020)
	Samurai II: Duel At Ichijoji Temple Japan 1955 Hiroshi Inagaki (Director, Writer) Toshiro Mifune Koji Tsuruta Mariko Okada Kaoru Yachigusa Michiyo Kogure Mitsuko Mito Kuroemon Onoe Eiko Miyoshi Jun Yasumoto (Cinematographer) The way of women is to love (Saturday, August 15, 2020)
	Samurai III: Duel At Ganryu Island Japan 1956 Hiroshi Inagaki (Director, Writer) Toshiro Mifune Koji Tsuruta Mariko Okada Kaoru Yachigusa Michiko Saga Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki Solid conclusion to the trilogy (Sunday, September 20, 2020)
	Throne Of Blood Japan 1957 Akira Kurosawa (Director) Toshiro Mifune Isuzu Yamada Takashi Shimura Akira Kubo Yoichi Tachikawa Minoru Chiaki Asakazu Nakai (Cinematographer) Kurosawa's interpretation of Macbeth (Friday, January 4, 2013)
	The Hidden Fortress Japan 1958 Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Toshiro Mifune Minoru Chiaki Kamatari Fujiwara Susumu Fujita Takashi Shimura Misa Uehara Eiko Miyoshi Ryûzô Kikushima (Writer) Hideo Oguni (Writer) Shinobu Hashimoto (Writer) Masaru Satô (Soundtrack) Kazuo Yamazaki (Cinematographer) Beautifully filmed (Sunday, November 14, 2021)
	Kuroneko Japan 1968 Kaneto Shindo (Director, Writer) Toho Co. (Production Company) Kichiemon Nakamura Nobuko Otowa Kiwako Taichi Kei Satō Taiji Tonoyama Kiyomi Kuroda (Cinematographer) Hikaru Hayashi (Soundtrack) Masterpiece of ghostly style and atmosphere (Saturday, May 22, 1999)
	Samurai Reincarnation Japan 1981 Kinji Fukasaku (Director, Writer) Toei Company (Production Company) Sonny Chiba Kenji Sawada Akiko Kana Hiroyuki Sanada Ai Kanzaki Hideo Murota Noboru Matsuhashi Naoko Kubo Mikio Narita Fûtarô Yamada (Writer) Tatsuo Nogami (Writer) Kiyoshi Hasegawa (Cinematographer) Hozan Yamamoto (Soundtrack) Sounds more fun than it actually is (Saturday, September 25, 2021)
	Legend Of The Eight Samurai Japan 1983 Kinji Fukasaku (Director, Writer) Toei Company (Production Company) Hiroyuki Sanada Sonny Chiba Hiroko Yakushimaru Etsuko Shiomi (Actor, Actor) Minori Terada Masaki Kyômoto Takuya Fukuhara Shunsuke Kariya Kenji Ohba Keiko Matsuzaka Toshio Kamata (Writer) Seizô Sengen (Cinematographer) Splendidly cheesy swords & sorcery epic (Friday, August 20, 2021)