Noboru Mitani — Actor (16)
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King of Sha-kin (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
借王
director: Seiji Izumi actor: Show Aikawa / Hideo Murota …
other title: 借王
In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestrate a complex financial con targeting crooked businessmen in an attempt to solve their respective financial woes.
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Path of the Beast (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
少女娼婦 けものみち
director: Tatsumi Kumashiro actor: Ayako Yoshimura / Minako Mizushima …
other title: 少女娼婦 けものみち
17 year old Saki lives in a run-down shack with her mom, who survives by pushing a food cart from dawn to dusk. Saki has dropped out of school, and when she's not helping her mother selling noodles in the streets, she's playing flesh-games with boyfriend Sotoo. In her spare time, the girl also entertains a truck driver named Ataru. She believes her promiscuity is a trait inherited from her mom. Determined to improve her lot in life, Saki decides to stop seeing the two guys.
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Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 1 (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
新吾十番勝負1
director: Kōsei Saitō actor: Toshirō Mifune / Tomoyuki Kunihiro …
other title: 新吾十番勝負1
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his father Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune seeks to reunite with his lost son.  Part 1 sets up the story and introduces the characters.  When the secrets of Shingo's birth are revealed to him, it sets off a series of events that bring him to cross swords with members of the shogun's inner circle. 
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The Key (1997) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
鍵
director: Toshiharu Ikeda actor: Naomi Kawashima / Akira Emoto …
other title: 鍵
Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with her lack of passion during lovemaking. All this changes after they meet the young Mr. Kimura
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Shanghai Rhapsody (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
上海バンスキング
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Keiko Matsuzaka / Morio Kazama …
other title: Rhapsodie de Shanghai / 上海バンスキング
Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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The Geisha House (1999) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
おもちゃ
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Maki Miyamoto / Sumiko Fuji …
other title: La Maison des geishas / おもちゃ
Set in a Kyoto geisha house during the post-WWII era, the young Omocha begins her rigorous apprenticeship within the traditional community of geiko and maiko. She must navigate complex internal rivalries and a strict social hierarchy while the house struggles to maintain its customs. As modern society shifts around them, the residents face the increasing pressure of Japan's changing cultural identity.
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Dreamy Fifteen (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
翔んだカップル
director: Shinji Sōmai actor: Hiroko Yakushimaru / Shingo Tsurumi …
other title: The Terrible Couple / 翔んだカップル …
Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader from Kyushu, enrolls in a prestigious high school in Tokyo. Plans are made for him to live in his uncle's house, part of which is rented out while his uncle is abroad on business. A realtor's mistakes leaves Tasiro sharing the house with Kei Yamaba, the most beautiful girl in the school, who is also his classmate. There is the risk that their unexpected 'co-habitation' will be discovered by the school authorities.
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Song of the Horse (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
馬の歌
director: Akira Kurosawa / Ryō Kinoshita actor: Hiroyuki Kawase / Noboru Mitani
other title: Canção do Cavalo / La canción del caballo …
Akira Kurosawa’s only television work—a lyrical documentary that follows a thoroughbred from birth and training to the Japan Derby—framed by a grandfather’s narration to his grandson about the fading bond between people and horses.