Landmark Japanese films of the 1950s, among them samurai period dramas and a family drama. A film belongs here when the cited article calls it a Japanese film. It excludes classics from other countries. These films were made in the postwar decades, when Japanese cinema won international prizes and a worldwide audience, and they include a samurai epic, a period mystery told from conflicting accounts and a quiet story of an aging couple. It excludes classics of other countries and later Japanese films.
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Seven Samurai (Wikipedia)
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Seven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.
Tokyo Story (Wikipedia)
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Tokyo Story (Japanese: 東京物語, Hepburn: Tōkyō Monogatari) is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama, about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown
Rashomon (Wikipedia)
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Rashomon (Japanese: 羅生門, Hepburn: Rashōmon) is a 1950 Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) psychological thriller film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto.
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