Isao Kimura — Actor (43)
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Conquest (1965) IMDb TMDB
悪党
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Kyôko Kishida …
other title: Conquête / A Scoundrel …
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to send her husband into battle.
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Where did Sharaku go? (1968) TMDB
写楽はどこへ行った
director: Toshio Endo actor: Kei Satō / Isao Yamagata …
other title: 写楽はどこへ行った
Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out the true identity of Sharaku, who disappeared after about 150 portraits of actors he created came out.
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Rice (1957) IMDb TMDB
米
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Shinjirō Ehara / Eijirō Tōno …
other title: Le Riz / 米
A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community creates friction amongst the proud residents.
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The Story of Pure Love (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB
純愛物語
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Shinjirō Ehara / Hitomi Nakahara …
other title: Un amour pur / 純愛物語 …
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.
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The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado (1961) IMDb TMDB
ひばり民謡の旅シリーズ　べらんめぇ藝者佐渡へ行く
director: 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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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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Hero of the Red Light District (1960) WikiData IMDb TMDB
妖刀物語 花の吉原百人斬り
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Yoshie Mizutani …
other title: Meurtre à Yoshiwara / 妖刀物語 花の吉原百人斬り …
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.
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Summer Clouds (1958) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
鰯雲
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Chikage Awashima / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: Nuvole estive / Nuages d'été …
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
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Yakuza of Seki (1963) IMDb TMDB
関の弥太っぺ
director: Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Yukiyo Toake …
other title: 関の弥太っぺ
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo, whose father entrusts her to him with his dying wish. To honor his promise to Osayo's deceased father, Yatappe brings her to safety, and from a distance keeps a watchful eye on her well being.