Kunio Watanabe — Director (18)
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Diary of a Bride (1934)
花嫁日記 IMDb TMDB
Kunio Watanabe actor: Kyoji Sugi / Haruyo Ichikawa …
other title: 花嫁日記
Director Watanabe Kunio The first talkie film by Tamagawa Studio Starring Sugi Kyoji as Hosoi Ichikawa Haruyo as Kinuko Hoshi Reiko as Mitsuko Matsumoto Shutaro as boy of liquor shop Uemura Setsuko as landlord widow Kitahara Natsue as hysteric wife Oosaki Kenji as her husband Matsudaira Akira as singer at next door Hanano Kuniko as maid Kawagoe Ippei and Bando Mieshi as old couple Kanbe Hikaru as thief
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365 Nights (1962)
三百六十五夜 TMDB
Kunio Watanabe actor: Ken Takakura / Yukiji Asaoka …
other title: 三百六十五夜
A touching drama about a love triangle between a young architect, Koroku, and two women, Ranko and Teruko. Ranko comes from a wealthy family and is offering to repay Koroku’s family debts in exchange for marriage, but Koroku is in love with his landlord’s daughter, Teruko. Things are further complicated when the wicked Tsugawa takes interest in both women, for his own marriage.
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The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado (1961)
ひばり民謡の旅シリーズ　べらんめぇ藝者佐渡へ行く IMDb TMDB
Kunio Watanabe actor: Hibari Misora / Ken Takakura …
other title: ひばり民謡の旅シリーズ　べらんめぇ藝者佐渡へ行く
Koharu, a flamboyant geisha, unexpectedly wins a trip to Sado Island in a TV contest. She is accompanied by three people. Koharu had been dreaming of a handsome young man, but when she gets into the first-class car, she meets Tashiro, a pretentious young man with rimless glasses, Sugimura, who has a mean look in his eyes, and Ryuta, a young man she had a scuffle with in a boxing match the other day and hated. After countless misunderstandings, Koharu vows to defeat Tomoe-gumi's leader, Yamada's gang...
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Song of Kagoshima (1962)
民謡の旅　桜島　おてもやん TMDB
Kunio Watanabe actor: Hibari Misora / Michiya Mihashi …
other title: 民謡の旅　桜島　おてもやん
Yumemi, the president of Shirayuri Tours, visits Kagoshima in an attempt to save the contract with Satsuma Inn. After learning about the abrupt cancellation of the contract with the family-run Satsuma Inn in Kagoshima, Yumemi, launches her own investigation into the matter. Amidst her efforts to resume her company’s contract with the inn, Yumemi finds herself personally involved in the inn’s family affairs and with their guests in a surprising discover of love and friendship.
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Dawn of Judo (1970)
姿三四郎 IMDb TMDB
Kunio Watanabe actor: Muga Takewaki / Nana Ozaki …
other title: 姿三四郎
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself. This is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata" and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II"
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Enoken's Home Run King (1948)
エノケンのホームラン王 IMDb TMDB
Kunio Watanabe actor: Kenichi Enomoto / Miyako Haruyama …
other title: エノケンのホームラン王
Postwar! Baseball! Comedy! Enoken plays a superfan of the Yomiuri Giants – the real Tokyo team, with many of its star players "acting" as themselves – who, despite his utter lack of athletic abilities, becomes embroiled in their successes, and their personal lives. Will Enoken help the Giants take the pennant?
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Merciless Blade Part 2 (1953)
大菩薩峠　第二部　壬生と島原の巻／三輪神杉の巻 IMDb TMDB
Kunio Watanabe actor: Michiko Ai / Koji Arima …
other title: 大菩薩峠　第二部　壬生と島原の巻／三輪神杉の巻
The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.