Kinya KitaojiFilmography

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Actor

  • Haru No Kane

    1986

  • Himatsuri

    Actors: Kiwako Taichi, Ryota Nakamoto, Norihei Miki, Rikiya Yasuoka

    Synopsis: Himatsuri is based on a real life tragedy, in which a Japanese man inexplicably slaughtered his family and then killed himself. Kinya Kitaoji plays the thoroughly self-centered "protagonist," who does what he pleases no matter who he hurts. No one dares question Kitaoji due to his blasting-cap Read More

    1985

  • Minami Jujisei

    Actors: Atsuo Nakamura, Kinya Kitaoji, Hosei Komatsu

    Synopsis: Some of the complexities involved in the murder of 5,000 Chinese in Singapore during World War II are considered in this joint Japanese-Australian film. After the British surrendered Singapore to the Japanese, the Imperial Japanese Army unit known as the kempei-tai or a kind of military police Read More

    1982

  • Moeru Aki

    Actors: Shin Saburi, Kinya Kitaoji, Mayumi Ogawa

    Synopsis: Glowing Autumn starts out like a dark-hued Rembrandt, loses some focus like an Impressionist painting by Monet, and finally descends into the chaos of Jackson Pollack dribbling paint all over the helpless canvas. The sensuality of the images remains compelling, but their clarity and style have Read More

    1981

  • Sri Lanka no Ai to Wakare

    Actors: Komaki Kurihara, Hideko Takamine, Kinya Kitaoji

    1976

  • Father of the Kamikazee

    Actors: Koji Tsuruta

    Synopsis: Inspired by the tragic true story of Kamikaze pilot Onishi Takijiro, director Kosaku Yamashita's historical drama follows the wartime experiences of the respected admiral who attempted to force America into considering a negotiated peace during World War II. Warfare is raging across the globe, and Read More

    1974

  • The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode

    Actors: Goro Ibuki, Nobuo Kaneko, Kinya Kitaoji, Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Akira Kobayashi

    Synopsis: In this violent and morally ambiguous crime drama from master genre filmmaker Kinji Fukasaku, Takeda (Akira Kobayashi), a longtime leader of one of Hiroshima's Yakuza families (the Japanese Mafia), attempts to resolve the longtime war between various mob factions by reshaping his Read More

    1974

  • Asayake No Uta

    Synopsis: Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land development, they are ultimately unsuccessful. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

    1974

  • Senso to Ningen

    Synopsis: This is the third of a series of Japanese epics dealing with the exploits of a family that owns factories in Manchuria in the 1930s. The atrocities committed by Japan in China are not glossed over but become central to the story. Battles with the Chinese and the Russians are shown on a big scale Read More

    1974

  • The Yakuza Papers 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

    Actors: Sonny Chiba, Kinya Kitaoji, Asao Koike, Bunta Sugawara, Meiko Kaji, Seizo Fukumoto

    Synopsis: Bunta Sugawara returns as Shozo Hirono in this sequel to the acclaimed yakuza film Jingi Naki Tatakai (aka The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor and Humanity). Hirono, now dug deep into a Japanese crime family based in Hiroshima, finds a new adversary in the person of Katsutoshi Otomo (Sonny Chiba Read More

    1973

  • Band of Assassins

    Synopsis: The Japanese title of Band of Assassins was Shinsengumi, which pinpointed the assassins in question. The Shinshen was a covert military organization in the employ of the 19th-century Japanese aristocracy. To protect their decadent employers, the Shinshen regularly ventured out to kill political Read More

    1971

  • Our Silent Love

    Synopsis: In this Japanese love story, a young man, the son of deaf-mute parents, is given a job by a factory owner who thinks he would make a good match for his daughter who is also a deaf-mute. The girl is already in love with a similarly afflicted man, but her father objects as he does not want her Read More

    1969

  • River of Forever

    Synopsis: In this Japanese melodrama, a youthful truck driver does all he can to keep away from hospitals and physicians. Then he meets a pretty nurse while visiting an ailing friend. Later, following a traffic accident, he reluctantly undergoes a check up and must reveal that he has terminal leukemia. The Read More

    1967

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