Asao Sano — Actor (16)
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Cruel Story of Youth (1960) [Movie] WikiData TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
青春残酷物語
7.4 (5 ratings) director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Yūsuke Kawazu / Miyuki Kuwano …
other title: Racconto crudele della giovinezza / Contos Cruéis da Juventude …
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
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Cops vs. Thugs (1975) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB WikiData Min reol IMDb Douban
県警対組織暴力
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: Police contre Syndicat du crime / 県警対組織暴力 …
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kuno to help him hijack the deal. With relations between the rival gangs at breaking point, it's not long before all-out war breaks out as the gangsters, police and local politicians battle for control of the city.
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The Man with a Shotgun (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
散弾銃の男
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Hideaki Nitani / Izumi Ashikawa …
other title: L'Homme à la Mitraillette / 散弾銃の男 …
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! (1963) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
探偵事務所２３ くたばれ悪党ども
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Joe Shishido / Reiko Sasamori …
other title: Ufficio investigativo 23: Crepate Bastardi! / Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! …
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.
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The Last Samurai (1974) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
狼よ落日を斬れ
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Hideki Takahashi / Ken Ogata …
other title: Les derniers samouraïs / 狼よ落日を斬れ
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
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The Thick-Walled Room (1956) [Movie] TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
壁あつき部屋
director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Kō Mishima / Torahiko Hamada …
other title: 壁あつき部屋 / O Quarto de Paredes Espessas …
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
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The Burmese Harp (1956) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
ビルマの竪琴
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Shōji Yasui …
other title: L'arpa birmana / Freunde bis zum letzten …
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
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Fighting Elegy (1966) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
けんかえれじい
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Hideki Takahashi / Yūsuke Kawazu …
other title: Elegia della lotta / Elégie de la bagarre …
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
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The Thick-Walled Room (1956) [Movie] NeoDB
壁あつき部屋
director: 小林正树 actor: 三岛耕 / 平田昭彦 …
other title: 厚壁房间 / 壁あつき部屋
巣鴨拘留所－－那里文明和和平的名义被判刑的战犯们服刑的。其中一个山下，战时南方上司的命令滨一个人的原住民杀了，不过，那个滨田的密告中重体力劳动终身刑的判决。另外横战时美国俘虏收容所的翻译了巣鴨只是被列入了。而且战时，横只被一个人类的少女”的一个温柔的ヨシ子，现在是涩谷的特飲街工作的女人。朝鲜人的许，神经质的山下也这样的刻印战犯被推的遇难者的一个人而已。逃脱失败了的山下那个紧接之后知道了母亲的死。定时决定来源被允许了的山下，滨田有女人的山下的家到现在持续迫害了的事情知道一切的愤怒和不由得比方了。可是恐怖扭曲的滨田的表情看了的山下，杀意也不做了。唯一的妹妹，“今后怎么办？”据说山下这样的问题，“活下去。”这时回答了。横们再次迎接，拘留所的穿过门山下，然后在那里，再次热只是等待着的墙壁。...
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Blood Is Dry (1960) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
血は渇いてる
director: Yoshishige Yoshida actor: Keiji Sada / Shinichirō Mikami …
other title: Le sang séché / 血は渇いてる …
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, however, he is no longer a desperate man pointing a gun to his head, but a potential leader who wishes to take advantage of his failed suicide.
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Black River (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
黒い河
director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Fumio Watanabe / Ineko Arima …
other title: La Rivière noire / Río Negro …
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.
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Gone in the Rain (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
雨の中に消えて
director: Katsumi Nishikawa actor: Sayuri Yoshinaga / Reiko Sasamori …
other title: 雨の中に消えて
Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from their career and love life. Soon, their room share takes a turn, when ideals begin to clash with reality.