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1945

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail

6.7 59mDrama Thriller Action & Adventure

The fourth film from Akira Kurosawa is based on a legendary twelfth-century incident in which the lord Yoshitsune and a group of samurai retainers dressed as monks in order to pass through a dangerous enemy checkpoint. The story was dramatized for centuries in Noh and Kabuki Theater, and here it becomes one of the director's most riveting early films.

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The fourth film from Akira Kurosawa is based on a legendary twelfth-century incident in which the lord Yoshitsune and a group of samurai retainers dressed as monks in order to pass through a dangerous enemy checkpoint. The sto... Read more

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Watch "The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail" on Criterion Channel released in 1945. It's a drama and thriller movie, and has a rating of 6.7 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.