Machibuse (1970), aka Incident at Blood Pass and The Ambush.
This film was produced by Toshiro Mifune's company, Mifune Productions, and released by Toho. It was the second teaming of Mifune-san and Shintaro Katsu. They had starred together earlier that year in Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, produced by Katsu Productions.
This is often referred to as Mifune-san's last performance as his famous character from Yojimbo and Sanjuro. That's a bunch of PR hooey. While there are some similarities, Mifune-san is playing a different character altogether.
The plot involves many people - a ronin, a disgraced doctor, a police constable and his prisoner, a woman abused by her husband, and a band of robbers - trapped in a snowed-in mountain pass and staying at the same inn. There are intrigues galore amongst the various players, and Mifune-san's ronin plays all sides in order to stay on top of the situation.
Mifune-san was reunited with director Hiroshi Inagaki for this project. Fifteen years earlier Inagaki-san had directed The Samurai Trilogy starring Mifune-san as the legendary samurai/sword saint Miyamoto Musashi. Machibuse would be Inagaki-san's last film.
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Ruriko Asaoka: Kokoro No Uramado (1969) designed by Tadanori Yokoo
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Artist - 浅丘ルリ子 (Asaoka, Ruriko)
Song - 愛の化石 (Ai No Kaseki) [Eng. "Fossil Of Love"]
Release Date - August 1969
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Confessions Among Actresses (1971) dir. Yoshishige Yoshida
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Yoshishige Yoshida
- Confessions Among Actresses
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The Green Music Box (1955) , starring Ruriko Asaoka
Directed by Umetsugu Inoue
Costumes by Junichi Nakahara
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