Wakaba Irie — Actor (27)
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A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2002)
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Kazuo Kuroki actor: Tasuku Emoto / Yoshio Harada …
other title: 美しい夏キリシマ / Sommer eines Jungen
Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima") is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the countryside in the last days before Japan's surrender ending WWII. Striking a welcome retro note in its languid pacing and delicate handling of seriocomic ensemble threads, handsome production is a natural for fests. It might also prove a cornerstone for retrospectives or ancillary releases of works by a helmer ("Preparation of the Festival," "Ronin-gai") who's long been appreciated at home but has won just limited attention abroad.
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A Desirable Marriage (1991)
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Yoshimitsu Morita actor: Yoshiko Mita / Yuki Saito …
other title: おいしい結婚 / Happy Wedding
A human drama on the state of marriage today, following the battle between a mother and daughter over her marriage and humorous depictions of the people around them. When Mieko's husband passes away, she hopes to arrange a good marriage for her daughter Non, but things don't go as planned when Non reveals there's already a love interest in her life.
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Three Yakuza (1965)
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Tadashi Sawashima actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: 股旅　三人やくざ
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. Part 1: A man is on the run after killing two Hasshu Officials to avenge his Boss. He must make a life or death decision as he is asked to protect a gang from attack. Part 2: A pair of gamblers chased out of a crooked game must fight not only their pursuers, but the ghosts of their pasts as well. Part 3: A wanderer who wants to live according to the Yakuza Code, but is not sure that he can do so when asked to save a town from an evil official.
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Giant Rumble (1964)
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Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Hashizo Ōkawa / Tetsuro Tamba …
other title: Ôdeiri
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home town. Swearing allegiance to his fiancée’s father, a decent boss, he had taken to the road after a gang fight until things cooled down. While honing his sword skills in his travels, everything in the town had changed and he descended into a virtual hell of violence. Opponents were being slaughtered by a former samurai ‘Bodyguard’ played by Tanba Tetsuro at the height of his amazing career. While these two master swordsmen are fated to meet, before that can even happen they must survive one of the longest, bloodiest swordfights in movie history!
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Shiro and Marilyn (1988)
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Junichi Suzuki actor: Masaya Katō / Narumi Yasuda …
other title: マリリンに逢いたい / Marilyn ni Aitai
Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite shore on Zamami to see his love, a dog named Marilyn. Shiro is portrayed by the real-life Shiro.
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Sada (1998)
SADA 戯作・阿部定の生涯
Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Hitomi Kuroki / Tsurutaro Kataoka …
other title: Sada: Gesaku · Abe Sada no shôgai / SADA 戯作・阿部定の生涯 …
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.
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A Touch of Fever (1993)
二十才の微熱
Ryosuke Hashiguchi actor: Yoshihiko Hakamada / Reiko Kataoka …
other title: Petite fièvre des vingt ans / 二十才の微熱 …
Tatsuru and Shinichiro’s relationship shifts from casual to complicated as love and emotions blur the lines between their work and personal lives.
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The Rocking Horsemen (1992)
青春デンデケデケデケ
Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Yasufumi Hayashi / Tadanobu Asano …
other title: 青春デンデケデケデケ / Seishun dendekedekedeke
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.
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Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn (1966)
丹下左膳 飛燕居合斬り IMDb TMDB
Hideo Gosha actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Keiko Awaji …
other title: 丹下左膳 飛燕居合斬り / Samouraï sans honneur …
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to his clan. But Tange Sazen has his own reasons for seeking the urn.
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro (1965)
宮本武蔵 巌流島の決斗 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Ken Takakura …
other title: 宮本武蔵 巌流島の決斗 / Le Duel de l'aube …
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady Osugi (still doggedly trying to defeat Musashi), and even the return of Priest Takuan (the man responsible for his journey towards enlightenment). But most of all, the boastful, long-haired and long-sworded Sasaki Kojiro.
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Miyamoto Musashi (1961)
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Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Akiko Kazami …
other title: 宮本武蔵 / La Légende de Miyamoto Musashi …
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicious. He sides with the Toyotomi at Sekigahara, and as a result finds himself on the losing side of the historic battle. He and his friend Matahachi manage to escape the slaughter although the latter is wounded in his leg. They stumble across the young Akemi who makes her living with her mother Oko by robbing corpses of their armor and anything else they can sell. Oko takes it into her head to seduce Matahachi, which she does first by skillfully sucking the gangrene from his blood, and then just by sucking.
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style (1963)
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Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Wakaba Irie …
other title: 宮本武蔵 二刀流開眼 / A deux sabres …
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on a mission of learning; with the introduction of his arch-rival Sasaki Kojiro; and lastly the large cast of characters rendezvouses for a fateful finale.
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple (1964)
宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決斗 IMDb TMDB
Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Wakaba Irie …
other title: 宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決斗 / Seul contre tous à Ichijoji …
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a treacherous clan in an arranged duel. 73 against one. Boastful Kojiro watches, secure in the knowledge that only he is a worthy opponent.