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Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Koji Yakusho, Yuko Asano, Bunta Sugawara, Tsurutaro Kataoka
Synopsis: As the Japanese studios were declining in 1969, four legendary directors from that country's "golden age" of cinema -- Kon Ichikawa, Masaki Kobayashi, Keisuke Kinoshita, and of course Akira Kurosawa -- banded together to start their own production company. The financial and critical failure of the Read More
Actors: Toru Takemitsu, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Nagisa Oshima, Masahiro Shinoda
Synopsis: This documentary profiles the creative aspects of innovative Japanese film music composer Toru Takemitsu. Takemitsu has been composing film scores since the 1960's. Included are clips from 16 movies he scored, interviews with the composer and his friends, and movie directors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More
Crew: Producer
Actors: Ikko Furuya, Ai Kanzaki, Mami Okamoto, Ron Nelson
Synopsis: Set in the late 19th century, a shipwrecked trio of African-American Dixieland jazz musicians find themselves in war-torn feudal Japan in this charming and genuinely funny Japanese comedy. Not only do the foreigners teach the Japanese war lords a thing or two about music, they also become symbols Read More
Crew: Director
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Ogawa, Kiichi Nakai, Takayuki Takemoto
Synopsis: This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames them in front of the entire nation. Director Masaki Kobayashi has used real events so the dramatic turns in the film are based on fact -- a 1970s shootout in the mountains Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Synopsis: One of the major documentaries on a specific chapter in modern Japanese history, this look at the trial of Japanese militarists accused of war crimes is excellently handled by director Masaki Kobayashi. Kobayashi and his assistants had to plow through 30,000 reels from the proceedings of the Read More
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
Actors: Keiko Kishi, Haruko Sugimura, Ichiro Nakaya
Synopsis: This drama is adapted from a Japanese television mini-series. In the story, an industrialist learns of a medical condition which will greatly shorten his life. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the Read More
Synopsis: This black-and-white crime drama takes place in a remote rural inn located on an island in a river. It is the headquarters for a smuggling gang and is protected by higher-ups in the government. Even with this protection, the police continue their efforts to put the gang away. Things begin to Read More
Actors: Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura
Synopsis: Dodes'ka-Den (aka Dodesukaden) was Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's first project since Red Beard (1965), and his first ever in color. Kurosawa focuses this time on Tokyo slum life. We watch as a variety of unfortunates debase themselves to survive, yet, somehow, emerge with more innate dignity Read More
Actors: Tomoko Naraoka, Toshio Kurosawa, Michiyo Aratama, Kei Sato
Synopsis: A man is rendered deaf after he is beaten by his superior officer during World war II. The man goes on to become an inventor and tries to get legal help in securing a patent. He runs into his former tormentor at the law office and again faces the indignities of his ex-commander's cruelty. The Read More
Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Go Kato, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa
Synopsis: A father and son prepare to die for their beliefs in this historical drama set in 18th century Japan. While Isaburo Sasahara (Toshiro Mifune) has been loyal to Japan's feudal system all his life, his beliefs begin to change when the local rulers demand that his son Yogoro (Go Kato) give up his Read More
Actors: Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Keiko Kishi, Tetsuro Tamba, Tatsuya Nakadai, Katsuo Nakamura
Synopsis: Kwaidan is an impressively mounted anthology horror film based on four stories by Lafcadio Hearn, a Greek-born writer who began his career in the United States at the age of 19 and moved permanently to Japan in 1890 at the age of 40, where he eventually became a subject of the empire and took on Read More
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsuro Tamba, Rentaro Mikuni, Yoshio Inaba
Synopsis: This well-regarded Japanese drama follows an aging samurai as he attempts to regain his family's honor. In 17th century Japan, a shift in the country's political structure has thrown the feudal Shogun system into disuse. Impoverished samurai wander the countryside, asking wealthy estate owners if Read More
Actors: Keiko Kishi, Misako Watanabe, So Yamamura, Minoru Chiaki
Synopsis: Director Masaki Kobayashi uses the sharpest-edged knife in this cutting indictment of selfishness, greed, and the competition for the wealth of a dying man. A moribund business tycoon expresses his desire to finally see his three illegitimate children before he dies, but his wife blocks his Read More
Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Taketoshi Naito, Keijiro Morozumi, Yasuke Kawazu
Synopsis: A Soldier's Prayer (Ningen No Joken III) was the final entry in Japanese filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi's Human Condition trilogy. As in 1958's No Greater Love (see entry 23818) and 1961's The Road to Eternity (see entry 23819), the protagonist is the pacifistic Kaji, played by Tatsuya Nakadai. Read More
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Keiji Sada, Jun Tatara, Kei Sato
Synopsis: The second of Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi's Human Condition trilogy was titled The Road to Eternity (originally Zoku Ningen No Joken). Picking up where 1958's No Greater Love left off, this 1961 film finds the gentle, pacifistic Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) being sent to basic training camp in Read More
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, So Yamamura, Eitaro Ozawa, Ineko Arima, Akira Ishihama
Synopsis: Originally titled Ningen No Joken, No Greater Love is the first of Japanese filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi's Human Condition trilogy. Drawing from his own experiences, Kobayashi weaves the tale of a Japanese pacifist, trying to get by as best he can during World War II. Tatsuya Nakadai plays the Read More
Actors: Ineko Arima, Tatsuya Nakadai, Fumio Watanabe
Actors: Keiko Kishi, Keiji Sata, Minoru Oki
Actors: Ineko Arima, Keiji Sata
Actors: Ko (Isao) Kimura, Yoshiko Kuga
Actors: Yunosuke Ito, Isuzu Yamada, Ko Mishima
Actors: Akira Ishihama, Yoshiko Kuga, Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sata
Crew: First Assistant Director
Synopsis: Having lost her husband in the war, Haruko Inoue (wonderfully played by Yuko Mochizuki) struggles to raise her children. Making innumerable sacrifices for them, including prostituting herself, Haruko decides to send them to live with her brother in Tokyo. Her daughter becomes compromised in a Read More
Actors: Akira Ishihama, Kinuyo Tanaka
Actors: Torahiko Hamada, Keiko Kishi, Ko Mishima
Actors: Masao Wakahara, Hideko Takamine
Actors: Akira Ishihama
Actors: Hideko Takamine, Takeshi Sakamoto, Shuji Sano, Chishu Ryu
Synopsis: As in most of his films, noted Japanese director Keisuke Kinoshita also wrote the screenplay for this humorous-serious story of a resounding culture clash when the urbanized daughter of an old-fashioned farmer comes back to her native village. Carmen (Hideko Takamine) has taken up stripping in a Read More
Crew: First Assistant Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Sachiko Murase, Tsumasaburo Bando
Actors: Setsuko Hara, Shuji Sano
Actors: Ken Uehara, Kinuyo Tanaka
Actors: Yoko Katsuragi, Ryo Ikebe
Actors: Eitaro Ozawa, Mitsuko Mito
Actors: Kuniko Miyake, Ichiro Sugai, Mitsuko Miura, Kuniko Igawa
Actors: Toyoko Takahashi, Keiji Sata, Kinuyo Tanaka
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