Minoru Chiaki


Minoru Chiaki

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Rashomon (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Enough With The Sermon The commoner (Kichijiro Ueda) joins the woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) and the priest (Minoru Chiaki) who are about to begin recounting the story of the crime, early in Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, 1950.
Rashomon (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I Wouldn't Have Killed Him The first testimony by the bandit Tajomaru (Toshiro Mifune), about his meeting the Samurai (Masayuki Mori) and his wife (Machiko Kyo), as the trial begins in Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, 1950.
Throne Of Blood (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Master Of North Castle Taketoki (Toshiro Mifune) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki) have to stay cool as they receive what should be great news, fulfilling an ominous prediction, in Akira Kurosawa's version of "Macbeth," Throne Of Blood, 1957.
Throne Of Blood (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Pay No Attention The wife (Isuzu Yamada) tells the guests it's just the Sake` talking, as warlord Taketoki (Toshiro Mifune) goes feudal on a ghost, in Akira Kurosawa's treatment of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," Throne Of Blood, 1957.
Throne Of Blood (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Fate's Five Calamities Shakespeare in the medieval Japanese forest, as Taketoki (Toshiro Mifune) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki) come upon just one witch (Chieko Naniwa) in Akira Kurosawa's rendering of "Macbeth," Throne Of Blood, 1957.
Hakuchi (a.k.a. The Idiot, 1951) -- (Movie Clip) How Do You Know Me? Kameda (Masayuki Mori, title character), having seen her photo, is stupefied upon meeting Takeo (Setsuko Hara), who has been sold in marriage to Kayama (Minoru Chiaki), who introduces his family (Eiko Miyoshi, Noriko Sengoku, Kuninori Kodo) in Akira Kurosawa's Dostoyevsky adaptation, Hakuchi, 1951.
Hakuchi (a.k.a. The Idiot, 1951) -- (Movie Clip) The World Is Full Of Wolves Arriving in Sapporo, Akama (Toshiro Mifune) points out a camera-store photo of Takeo (Setsuko Hara), to Kameda (Masayuki More, title character), who will soon join his hosts, the Onos (Takashi Shimura, Chieko Higashiyama, Yoshiko Kuga) in Akira Kurosawa's version of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, Hakuchi, 1951.
Hidden Fortress, The -- (Movie Clip) You Stink Of Dead Bodies! Peasants Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara (in these roles, the models for R2D2 and C3PO) in the comic, tragic and profane opening from Akira Kurosawa's celebrated The Hidden Fortress, 1958.
Hidden Fortress, The -- (Movie Clip) Let's Die Together! Re-united in the wake of a clever slave uprising, Tahei (Minoru Chiaki) and Matakishi (Kamatari Fujiwara) have the luck of cowards, in Akira Kurosawa's first wide-screen feature The Hidden Fortress, 1958.
Hidden Fortress, The -- (Movie Clip) 200 Gold Pieces Peasants Tahei (Minoru Chiaki) and Matakishi (Kamatari Fujiwara), displeased to find that Makabe (Toshiro Mifune) is still on their trail, find out he also knows about the gold, in Akira Kurosawa's Throne Of Blood, 1958.

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