Masayuki Yui

Masayuki Yui Trailers

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Masayuki Yui was born in 1947 in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. He is an actor and writer, known for Ran (1985), Kagemusha (1980) and Dreams (1990).

Most Popular Masayuki Yui Trailers

Total trailers found: 43

Ran Trailer (1985)

01 June 1985

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

Kagemusha Trailer (1980)

26 April 1980

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans.

Dreams Trailer (1990)

11 May 1990

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

Persimmon Trailer (2011)

11 August 2011

Tamotsu is expecting a persimmon to dry and yet he cannot accept that it is time for a man on his deathbed to die.

To End All Wars Trailer (2001)

02 September 2001

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese.

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies Trailer (1986)

02 August 1986

Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player.

Madadayo Trailer (1993)

17 April 1993

In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast.

Cicada Trailer (2014)

04 May 2014

Cicada is the story of Jumpei-- a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but then is given the gift of clairvoyance and begins to see glimpses of the future.

Hokori to Gensou Trailer (2015)

26 September 2015

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "High and Low" (1963).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962).

Sword of Desperation Trailer (2010)

10 July 2010

A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou.

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).

Tora-san Goes North Trailer (1987)

15 August 1987

When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Throne of Blood" (1957).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Yojimbo" (1961).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Drunken Angel' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Drunken Angel" (1948).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960).

Tokyo Eyes Trailer (1998)

09 September 1998

The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Lower Depths" (1957).

Casting Blossoms to the Sky Trailer (2012)

12 May 2012

In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 Chūetsu earthquakes, to report on the disaster; there, she learns about the experiences of its inhabitants and stumbles upon a stage play written by an enigmatic student of her ex-boyfriend.

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Dodes'ka-den" (1970).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Kagemusha" (1980).

A Class to Remember II Trailer (1996)

19 October 1996

The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.

Karanukan Trailer (2017)

23 April 2017

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray Dog" (1949).

Image: Kurosawa's Continuity: 'Kagemusha' Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

A 43-minute video piece reconstructing Kagemusha through Akira Kurosawa's paintings and sketches.

Through the Night Trailer (2002)

02 November 2002

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out for profit.

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (1954).

Siberian Express 2 Trailer (2001)

13 January 2001

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ran' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Ran” (1985).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Red Beard' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Red Beard" (1965).

Bicycle Trailer (2009)

15 May 2009

A co-worker confronts Mamoru on his apparent apathy toward life, and this results in Mamoru leaving his job out of humiliation.

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: ‘No Regrets for Our Youth’ Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "No Regrets for Our Youth" (1946).

Image: Kurosawa's Continuity: 'Ran' Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

Masayuki Yui, who directed the following, acted in four of Akira Kurosawa's final films: Kagemusha, Ran, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, and Madadayo.

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: ‘One Wonderful Sunday’ Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "One Wonderful Sunday" (1947).

BANANASHOOT JUDGEMENT Trailer (1989)

25 March 1989

Fukuo Hosaka, Hiromi Koitabashi, and Kazuhiko Kuwahara are students at a public high school in Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture.

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: ‘I Live in Fear’ Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "I Live in Fear" (1955).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: ‘Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two’ Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two" (1945).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: ‘The Most Beautiful’ Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Most Beautiful" (1944).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: ‘The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail’ Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail" (1945).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: ‘Sanshiro Sugata’ Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanshiro Sugata" (1943).