Movie where a old man goes back to Japan

The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai

2003 7.6

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

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The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai

1990 6.3

Following the trail of a samurai ancestor, two Japanese businessmen on a quest for spiritual fulfillment arrive in Africa with a group of tourists, only to get kidnapped by the local guerrilla leader. A tough mercenary must rescue them.

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Shōgun
Shōgun

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.

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Shōgun
Shōgun

An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.

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Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha

2005 7.7

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

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Memoirs of a Male Geisha
Memoirs of a Male Geisha

2007

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Pacific Rim
Pacific Rim

2013 6.9

Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.

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Pacific Rim: Uprising
Pacific Rim: Uprising

2018 6.1

It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.

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Letters from Iwo Jima
Letters from Iwo Jima

2006 7.5

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

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Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'

2007

Documentary on the making of Clint Eastwood's film 'Letters from Iwo Jima'.

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