Shoichi Ozawa — Actor (66)
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Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here (1972) IMDb TMDB
紙芝居昭和史 黄金バットがやって来る
director: Katsumune Ishida actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Kazuko Ichikawa …
other title: 紙芝居昭和史 黄金バットがやって来る
The dramatized tale of the 1935 creation of Japan's first superhero, the "Golden Bat", alongside the changes during and after the Second World War, not just to the hero himself, but the art of "kamishibai" picture stories that he originated from.
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Badge of the Night (1963) IMDb TMDB
夜の勲章
director: Akinori Matsuo actor: Akira Kobayashi / Naomi Hoshi …
other title: 夜の勲章
A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case. Nightclub-managing, drug-dealing gangster Uchida is the prime suspect in the case until he commits suicide. Kobayashi then discovers evidence that points to the doctor sibling of an innocent girl. The climax in a rural snowy locale is suspenseful and well-staged.
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He's the Witness (1960) TMDB
銀座旋風児　目撃者は彼奴だ
director: Haruyasu Noguchi actor: Akira Kobayashi / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 銀座旋風児　目撃者は彼奴だ
Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association, and he disguises himself.
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Summer Soldiers (1972) IMDb TMDB
サマー・ソルジャー
director: Hiroshi Teshigahara actor: Keith Sykes / Reisen Ri …
other title: サマー・ソルジャー
During the Vietnam War, an American G.I. deserts his base in Japan and escapes to Tokyo with the help of his Japanese bar hostess girlfriend. In the capital he gets involved with an anti-war organization while dodging the military police.
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Crimson Wings (1958) IMDb TMDB
紅の翼
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Izumi Ashikawa …
other title: 紅の翼
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company's office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft which has been chartered by a man named Ohashi takes off for the island with the serum piloted by Ishida. But when airborne, Ohashi, who is the murderer of lwami, holds up Ishida at gunpoint and orders him to land on a small island west of Hachijo where a ship is waiting to take him to Hong Kong...
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Our Happiness Alone (1964) IMDb TMDB
二十一歳の父
director: Noboru Nakamura actor: Homare Suguro / Kei Yamamoto …
other title: 二十一歳の父
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Mototsugu becomes disgusted with such strait-laced living and leaves home to marry Yoshiko, a blind masseuse, and they live in a small apartment near a pinball parlor where he works.
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Room for Let (1959) IMDb TMDB
貸間あり
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Frankie Sakai / Chikage Awashima …
other title: 貸間あり
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.
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Till We Meet Again (1955) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
あした来る人
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Yumeji Tsukioka / Tatsuya Mihashi …
other title: あした来る人 / 明日来的人 …
Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...
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The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)
雁の寺
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Ayako Wakao / Masao Mishima …
other title: Le Temple des Oies Sauvages / 雁の寺 …
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satoko's utter dependence on the man. Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satoko's interest in him; he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness. The story unfolds in a dreamlike manner—a flashback inspired by a now-infamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the so-called Temple of the Wild Geese.
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Our Town (1956) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
わが町
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Ryūtarō Tatsumi / Yōko Minamida …
other title: わが町 / 我们的城市 …
In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love with Shintaro. But Takichi objects to their relationship...