Tengoku to jigoku aka High and Low (Japan , 1963)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.3

Release Year - 1963
Country - Japan
Genres - Crime | Drama | Thriller
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Synopsis: An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.


An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control of the National Shoe Company, with the intent of keeping the company out of the hands of incompetent and greedy executives. He needs the same money, though, to pay the ransom that will possibly save a child's life. His resolution of that dilemma -- the certain loss of the company vs. the probable loss of the child -- makes for one distinct drama, and an ensuing elaborate police procedure makes for a second.


Awards

• Won Mainichi Film Award for Best Film
• Nominated for Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

Special Mention - Rated by more than 9k users on IMDb

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Rashômon aka Rashomon (Japan , 1950)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.4
Release Year - 1950
Country - Japan
Genres - Crime | Drama | Mystery
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Synopsis: A crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.


A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon. The priest and the woodcutter are recounting the story of a murdered samurai whose body the woodcutter discovered three days earlier in a forest grove. Both were summoned to testify at the murder trial, the priest who ran into the samurai and his wife traveling through the forest just before the murder occurred. Three other people who testified at the trial are supposedly the only direct witnesses: a notorious bandit named Tajômaru, who allegedly murdered the samurai and raped his wife; the white veil cloaked wife of the samurai; and the samurai himself who testifies through the use of a medium. The three tell a similarly structured story - that Tajômaru kidnapped and bound the samurai so that he could rape the wife - but which ultimately contradict each other...


Films Basis - Two short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, "Rashōmon" (for the setting) and "Yabu no naka", otherwise known as "In a Grove" (for the story line).


Tagline - The great, exciting Japanese production that brings a new experience to the cinema.


Awards

• Won Oscar - Best Foreign Language Film
• Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
• Italian Critics Award
• National Board of Review - Best Director and Best Foreign Film
• Blue Ribbon Awards - Best Screenplay

Lists

• Ranked #5 in Top ten list in 1950, Kinema Junpo 
• Among Top 10 - Directors' Top Ten Poll in 1992 & 2002, Sight & Sound
• Ranked #22 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
• Ranked #290 in The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time in 2008, Empire
• 50 Klassiker, Film by Nicolaus Schröder in 2002
• 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider in 2003
• IMDB Top 250 #78

Special Mention

• The film led to the coining of the term "Rashomon Effect" in psychology. The effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.
• Rated by ~ 51k users on IMDb

Films Influence

• Other Films - The film's concept has influenced a variety of subsequent films, such as Hero, Vantage Point, Courage Under Fire, Basic, One Night at McCool's and U Mong Pa Meung (Thai Movie)
• Television - The multiple-perspective concept has also been used, sometimes with over-the-top exaggeration for comedic expression, in episodes of many television programs like All in the Family  - "Everybody Tells the Truth" , CSI - "Rashomama" , Ed, Edd, n Eddy - "Once upon an Ed" , The Dick Van Dyke Show - "The Night the Roof Fell In" , Diff'rent Strokes  - "Rashomon II" , Mama's Family  - "Rashomama" to name a few

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Shichinin no samurai aka Seven Samurai (Japan , 1954)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.8 | Metacritic - 99
Release Year - 1954
Country - Japan
Genres - Adventure | Drama
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Synopsis: A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.


A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.

Awards

• Won Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival - 1954
• Nominated for BAFTA award - Best Film and Foreign Actor

Lists

• Ranked #1 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
• Sight & Sound's list of the ten greatest films of all time in 1982, and to the directors' top ten films in the 1992 and 2002 polls
• Roger Ebert Top 100
• IMDB Top 250 #14

Special Mention - Described as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made

• Innovated the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Ocean's Eleven, The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven
• Single largest undertaking by a Japanese filmmaker at the time, Seven Samurai went on to become Japan's highest-grossing movie and set a new standard for the industry
• Rated by more than 120k users on IMDb

Legacy - Film spawned several sequels and there was also a short-lived 1998 television series

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Tsubaki Sanjûrô aka Sanjuro (Japan , 1962)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1
Release Year - 1962
Country - Japan
Genres - Action | Drama | Thriller
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Synopsis : Second part of the Yojimbo - Sanjuro two films set (sequel of Yojimbo)


A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.


A group of idealistic young men, determined to clean up the corruption in their town, are aided by a scruffy, cynical samurai who does not at all fit their concept of a noble warrior.


Special Mention - Rated by more than 10k users on IMDb

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Kakushi-toride no san-akunin aka The Hidden Fortress (Japan , 1958)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1
Release Year - 1958
Country - Japan
Genres - Action | Adventure
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Synopsis : Lured by gold, two greedy peasants escort a man and woman across enemy lines. However, they do not realize that their companions are actually a princess and her general.

The story follows two greedy peasants in feudal Japan, Tahei and Matashichi, who are returning home from a failed attempt to profit from a war between neighboring clans. En Route they encounter the remnants of the defeated tribe that consists, most notably, of a famous General and a Princess who are hiding out in a fortress in the mountains. General Rokurota Makabe and Princess Yuki need to escape into allied territory with their large supply of gold so that they can rebuild their shattered clan. To do this the Peasants are tricked into helping them, with the promise that they will receive a large share of the gold when the destination is reached. Along the way, the General's prowess is put to the test as he must guide the 4, and later 5 with the inclusion of a freed slave, through close encounters with the pursuing enemy, and out of difficult situations the bumbling peasants manage to get them into.

Awards - Won FIPRESCI Prize , Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival

Won Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film

Nominated for Golden Bear

Special Mention - Rated by more than 13k users on IMDb

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Kumonosu-jô aka Throne of Blood (Japan , 1957)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.2
Release Year - 1957
Country - Japan
Genres - Drama
IMDB page

Synopsis: A ruthlessly ambitious lord, egged on by his wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become Emperor.

A transposition of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' to medieval Japan. After a great military victory, Lords Washizu and Miki are lost in the dense Cobweb Forest, where they meet a mysterious old woman who predicts great things for Washizu and even greater things for Miki's descendants. Once out of the forest, Washizu and Miki are immediately promoted by the Emperor. Washizu, encouraged by his ambitious wife, plots to make even more of the prophecy come true, even if it means killing the Emperor...

Special Mention - Rated by more than 14k users on IMDb

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Ran

Ratings - IMDB - 8.3 | Metacritic - 90
Release Year - 1985
Country - Japan
Genres - Action| Drama | War
IMDB page

Synopsis: An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him.

Best Film Awards - Won Oscar (Best Costume Design - 1986); Best Foreign Feature Film (Amanda Award, Norway - 1986); Best Foreign Language Film (BAFTA Award - 1987); Foreign Language Film of the Year (ALFS Award - 1987); Best Foreign Film (LAFCA Award - 1985)

Lists - Ranked #125 in IMDB Top 250 list

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Ikiru aka To Live (Japan , 1952)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.4 | 100% positive rating on  Rotten Tomatoes
Release Year - 1952
Country - Japan
Genres - Drama
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Synopsis: A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.

Awards

• Won Kinema Junpo Award - Best Film 1953
• Won Mainichi Film Concours - Best Film 1953
• Won  Golden Wolf  : Bucharest Film Festival
• Won  Special Prize of the Senate of Berlin : Berlin International Film Festival
• Nominated for Golden Bear at  Berlin International Film Festival

Lists

• Ranked #44 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
• Ranked 459th on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time
• IMDB Top 250 #141

Special Mention

• 100% positive rating based on 30 reviews from critics at the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes
• Roger Ebert Top 100 List
• Rated by more ~21k users on IMDb

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