Ryōzō Kasahara — Playwright (42)
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Me and Me (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
私と私
director: Toshio Sugie actor: Akira Takarada / Emi Ito …
other title: 私と私
Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong vs. Godzilla.
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Romance Express (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
特急にっぽん
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Frankie Sakai / Reiko Dan …
other title: 特急にっぽん
Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as a dour company president. Based on the novel "Seven and a half hours", by Shishi Bunroku.
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The Approach of Autumn (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
秋立ちぬ
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Nobuko Otowa / Yōsuke Natsuki …
other title: À l'approche de l'automne / Autumn Has Already Started …
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper.
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The Grave Tells All (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
セクシー・サイン　好き好き好き
director: Kōji Shima actor: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / Junko Kano …
other title: セクシー・サイン　好き好き好き
Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust upon him. One involves a a painting and an advertising poster. The other is about coaching the hockey team. Simultaneously, however, he is head over heels for three gals, one is a hairdresser, one is a fashion model and of course the third is part of the cheering squad for the hockey team.
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Zero (1984) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
零戦燃ゆ
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Jun Hashizume / Yu Hayami …
other title: Kampfgeschwader Zero / Zero, l'enfer du pacifique …
Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.
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Red Angel (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
赤い天使
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Ayako Wakao / Shinsuke Ashida …
other title: Nuda per un pugno di eroi / 赤い天使 …
In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.
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Zatoichi Challenged (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市血煙り街道
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Shintarō Katsu / Jūshirō Konoe …
other title: La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 17 : Route sanglante / 座頭市血煙り街道 …
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.
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Zatoichi's Cane Sword (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
座頭市鉄火旅
director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda actor: Shintarō Katsu / Shiho Fujimura …
other title: Zatôichi's Cane Sword / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 15 : La Canne-épée …
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local gangsters attempt to kill him, and the adventure begins. It turns out a blacksmith named Senzo examines Zatoichi's cane sword, and discovers it to be forged by his old mentor. Senzo discovers the sword is at the end of its usefulness and will break when it is used next.
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Duel at Fort Ezo (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
蝦夷館の決闘
director: Kengo Furusawa actor: Yūzō Kayama / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: 蝦夷館の決闘
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.