Keisuke Kinoshita — Playwright (20)
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Ballad of a Workman (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
二人で歩いた幾春秋
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Hideko Takamine / Keiji Sada …
other title: Journal d'un ouvrier / 二人で歩いた幾春秋
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
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A Japanese Tragedy (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
日本の悲劇
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Yūko Mochizuki / Keiji Sada …
other title: Una tragedia giapponese / La Tragédie du Japon …
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
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Woman (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
女
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Mitsuko Mito / Eitarō Ozawa
other title: Une femme / 女
Like many women after the war, Toshiko works as a chorus girl; her boyfriend Tadashi wishes she'd join him more frequently, but she detests his criminal involvement.
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Dora-heita (2000) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
どら平太
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Koji Yakusho / Yuko Asano …
other title: どら平太 / I Went To
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.
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Love Letter (1953) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
恋文
director: Kinuyo Tanaka actor: Masayuki Mori / Yoshiko Kuga …
other title: Liebesbriefe / Lettre d'amour …
Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko.