The 7th Dawn 1964   N/R, 123 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The Seventh Dawn
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: William Holden, Susannah York, Capucine, Tetsuro Tamba, Michael Goodliffe, Allan Cuthbertson, Maurice Denham, Sydney Tafler, Beulah Quo, Tony Price
Communist terrorists, British officials, and the people of Malaya fight for control of the country.
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The Bushido Blade 1980  R, 104 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The Bloody Bushido Blade
Director: Tom Kotani
Cast: Richard Boone, Sonny Chiba, Frank Converse, James Earl Jones, Mako, Toshiro Mifune, Mike Starr, Tetsuro Tamba, Timothy Patrick Murphy, William Ross, Laura Gemser, Mike Starr
It is the 1850s, and the Shogun (Toshiro Mifune) wants to give visiting Matthew Perry (Richard Boone) a prized sword to seal U.S.-Japanese relations. However, the sword is stolen, and Perry and his men search for it. Lots of kung fu action.
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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka 2002  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
aka: Violent Fire
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Riki Takeuchi, Ryosuke Miki, Kenichi Endo, Mika Katsumura, Sonny Chiba, Yuya Uchida, Tetsuro Tamba, Miho Nomoto, Rikiya Yasuoka
When his leader and father figure is killed by a rival gang, Kunisada (Riki Takeuchi) takes off with his sidekick (Kenich Endo) to avenge the killing.
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Happiness of the Katakuris 2001  R, 113 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Kenji Sawada, Naomi Nishida, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Tetsuro Tamba, Naoto Takenaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano, Moeko Ezawa, Tamaki Miyazaki, Takashi Matsuzaki, Kenichi Endo, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Yoshiki Arizono, Chihiro Asakawa, Yumeki Kanazawa
This dark musical comedy concerns the dysfunctional Katakuri family as they renovate and then open a lodge in a remote part of Japan. It is expected that tourism will boom when the projected highway is built. But the problems start with the first guest, a sickly man, who commits suicide. Not wanting bad publicity, they bury the body in the backyard. The next guest, likewise, dies–of a heart attack, and so it goes with guest after guest, and the ground fills with bodies. Still no highway, but the nearby volcano adds to their problems.
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Message from Space 1978 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Vic Morrow, Sonny Chiba, Philip Casnoff, Peggy Lee Brennan, Etsuko Shihomi, Tetsuro Tamba, Hiroyuki Sanada, Mikio Narita, Makoto Sato, Noboru Mitani
The Gavanas take over the planet Jillucia in this film featuring many of the ideas previously introduced in "Star Wars."
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Seppuku 1962 N/R, 135 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
aka: Harakiri
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentaro Mikuni, Shima Iwashita, Yoshio Inaba, Akira Ishihama, Masao Mishima, Tetsuro Tamba, Ichiro Nakaya, Yoshio Aoki, Jo Azumi
Suicide was considered an honorable solution in 17th-century Japan when the feudal Shogun system ended leaving many samurai warriors in poverty. One samurai, Motome Chijiiwa (Akira Ishihama), killed himself but lost honor. Now, his father-in-law, Hanshiro (Tatsuya Nakadai), seeks revenge.
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 You Only Live Twice 1967 PG, 116 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Donald Pleasence, Tetsuro Tamba, Karin Dor, Bernard Lee, Charles Gray, Lois Maxwell, Burt Kwouk, Alexander Knox
Agent 007, James Bond (Sean Connery), is back. This time he must solve the mystery of a missing U.S. space ship before nuclear war breaks out over the incident while his nemesis, Blofeld (Donald Pleasance), strokes his white cat.
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| 1. The 7th Dawn (1964)
aka: The Seventh Dawn
2. The Bushido Blade (1980)
aka: The Bloody Bushido Blade
3. Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)
aka: Violent Fire
4. Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
5. Message from Space (1978)
6. Seppuku (1962)
aka: Harakiri
7. You Only Live Twice (1967)
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