Best movies of Yûnosuke Itô

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûnosuke Itô, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

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

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Michiyo Aratama, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled ...

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Shiho Fujimura, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Satsuo Yamamoto,

Ishikawa Goemon (Ichikawa Raizo), a talented young ninja, becomes ensnared in a twisted scheme to assassinate Oda Nobunaga, an evil warlord bent on ruling feudal Japan with an iron fist. ...

Actors : Reiko Dan, Yûnosuke Itô, Toshirô Mifune, Makoto Satô,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

In 1945, Japanese Army Sergeant Kosugi and a platoon of young green recruits must retake and defend a fort occupied by the Chinese forces.

Actors : Hideko Takamine, Yûnosuke Itô, Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal ...

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Shinsuke Achiwa, Minori Terada, Naoko Ôtani,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

During World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship.

Actors : Yûko Mochizuki, Yûnosuke Itô, Masako Fujimura, Terumi Niki,
Directors : Nobuo Nakagawa,

Yoshigoro the tinsmith looks unsuccessfully for work in postwar Tokyo. His wife Oyuki must beg his former employers for loans. Her neighbors are also faring poorly; one has a terminally ill...

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Fubuki Koshiji, Hideo Sunazuka, Ichirô Nakatani,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Filmed as a traditional Japanese play, a yakuza boss is released from prison, but finds his gang usurped by a shady politician. With the help of his former cell mate he decides to assassinate the politician with an explosive pen.

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Yôko Minamida, Tamio Kawaji, Yuji Kodaka,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

A rambunctious, rough-and-tumble tale of a rowdy trio (Shishido, Kawaji,Yamauchi) of gambling bumpkins belonging to a rural yakuza clan. Much humor.

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Kôji Tsuruta, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Kiyoshi Saeki,

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Toshirô Mifune, Shima Iwashita, Kinnosuke Nakamura,

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by ...