Isao Kimura — Actor (44)
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Yakuza of Seki (1963)
関の弥太っぺ IMDb TMDB
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.
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The Shape of Night (1964)
夜の片鱗
Noboru Nakamura actor: Miyuki Kuwano / Mikijiro Hira …
other title: Le Contour de la nuit / 夜の片鱗 …
Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing demeanor and constant demands for money lead Yoshie down a dark path.
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The Affair (1967)
情炎 WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Yoshishige Yoshida actor: Mariko Okada / Yoshie Minami …
other title: Passion ardente / 情炎 …
As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds herself in an unhappy, loveless marriage and begins to understand her mother’s actions.
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Confessions Among Actresses (1971)
告白的女優論 IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Yoshishige Yoshida actor: Mariko Okada / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: Aveux, théories, actrices / 告白的女優論 …
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them has experienced a traumatic event which contributes to their particular enjoyment of becoming someone else in dramatic roles.
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Affair in the Snow (1968)
樹氷のよろめき
Yoshishige Yoshida actor: Mariko Okada / Isao Kimura …
other title: Affair In The Snow / Amours dans la neige …
In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had platonic feelings.
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Yukiguni (1965)
雪国 IMDb Douban NeoDB
大庭秀雄 actor: 岩下志麻 / 木村功 …
other title: 雪国 / Snow Country
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (1963)
武士道残酷物語
Tadashi Imai actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Ineko Arima …
other title: Bushido / Bushido - Schwur der Gehorsamkeit …
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
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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)
宮本武蔵 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
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)
宮本武蔵 二刀流開眼 IMDb TMDB
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.
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights (1962)
宮本武蔵 般若坂の決斗 IMDb TMDB
Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Wakaba Irie …
other title: 宮本武蔵 般若坂の決斗 / Les moines lanciers du temple Hozoin
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle after three years of intense contemplation and philosophical study and starting on his epic quest to complete his skill in the Way.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
子連れ狼 地獄へ行くぞ!大五郎
Yoshiyuki Kuroda actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Akihiro Tomikawa …
other title: Lobo Solitário 6: Paraíso Branco no Inferno / Okami - Blutiger Schnee …
With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member of the Yagyu clan.
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Stray Dog (1949)
野良犬
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Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Takashi Shimura …
other title: Cane randagio / Cão Danado …
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.