Masashige Narusawa — Playwright (25)
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Tange Sazen (1952) IMDb TMDB
丹下左膳
director: Sadatsugu Matsuda actor: Tsumasaburō Bandō / Chikage Awashima …
other title: 丹下左膳
Drama about a famous one-eyed, one-armed samurai swordsman of the middle of the Tokugawa period by the name of Tange Sazen. By chance, Tange gets an old pot in which the secret of the treasure of 1000000 ryos of gold is hidden. However, a bunch of different people hunt for the pot and Tange will have to apply his phenomenal fencing skills with the sword.
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Dupe (1965) IMDb TMDB
かも
director: Hideo Sekigawa actor: Tatsuo Umemiya / Mako Midori …
other title: かも
A man who hunts for women and sells them to bars and cabarets. This film depicts the lives of men and women who breathe the dark side of the city and live with a mysterious strength amidst vice. The fourth film in the Night Youth series by the duo Umemiya Tatsuo and Midori Mako.
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Wild Geese (1966) IMDb TMDB
雁
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Ayako Wakao / Gaku Yamamoto …
other title: 雁
Otama, daughter of a poor candy vendor, becomes the mistress of a man whom she believes to be a widower and owner of a prosperous dry goods store. The man is in fact married with children, and is a despised loan shark who takes money from the poor without qualms. Totally enraptured with Otama, this usurer establishes her and her father in separate houses and generously gives them gifts including silk taken as interest from Oshige, a poor cloth dealer who does business with the sewing teacher, Otama's neighbor. Otama's satisfaction with her situation gradually crumbles as she discovers the truth about her benefactor.
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Whirlpool of Flesh (1964) IMDb TMDB
おんなの渦と淵と流れ
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Noboru Nakaya / Kazuko Inano …
other title: おんなの渦と淵と流れ
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that results in her sleeping with a great number of men.
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Wind, Woman and Road (1958) IMDb TMDB
風と女と旅鴉
director: Tai Katō actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: 風と女と旅鴉
A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmers transporting gold to the governor think they are about to be robbed as the two gamblers face off against each other swords in hand.
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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka (1959)
浪花の恋の物語
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Ineko Arima …
other title: 浪花の恋の物語 / 浪花的恋爱物语 …
Chubei, the adopted son of an Osaka courier, falls desperately in love with the courtesan Umegawa. To prevent a wealthy client from purchasing her, he steals money from his employer to buy her freedom himself. Now hunted criminals, the lovers flee toward Yamato, pursued by the law.
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Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
楊貴妃
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Machiko Kyō / Masayuki Mori …
other title: L'imperatrice Yang-Kwei-Fei / A Imperatriz Yang Kwei Fei …
In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their court influence. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen, whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets.
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Yakuza of Seki (1963) IMDb TMDB
関の弥太っぺ
director: Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Yukiyo Toake …
other title: 関の弥太っぺ
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo, whose father entrusts her to him with his dying wish. To honor his promise to Osayo's deceased father, Yatappe brings her to safety, and from a distance keeps a watchful eye on her well being.
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Night Bitch (1966) IMDb TMDB
夜の牝犬
director: Shinji Murayama actor: Tatsuo Umemiya / Mako Midori …
other title: 夜の牝犬
A playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another opportunist, a young woman who is trying to seduce a rich married man. Their attempts at making easy money can only end tragically.
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Works of the Fish Man (1961) IMDb TMDB
江戸っ子繁昌記
director: Masahiro Makino actor: Yumiko Hasegawa / Kinnosuke Nakamura …
other title: 江戸っ子繁昌記
Katsujiro the fisherman overcomes his laziness when he learns of his younger sister Okiku’s unfortunate fate.
Nakamura Kinnosuke stars in two roles (Katsugoro and Aoyama Harima) in this film about the tragic nature of society in the late Edo period.