Kaneto Shindō — Playwright (75)
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The Lucky General (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
当りや大将
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Yukiko Todoroki …
other title: 当りや大将
The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was running his business and hitting him with a taxi turned out to be a trifle for him. A unique work, filled with tears and laughter, praising the beautiful human love that blooms at the bottom of life, focused on the genius “General” who lives in the troubled city of Kamagasaki.
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The House of the Sleeping Virgins (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
眠れる美女
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Takahiro Tamura / Yoshiko Kayama …
other title: Nemureru bijo / 眠れる美女
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.
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Women of Ginza (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
銀座の女
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Yukiko Todoroki / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: 銀座の女
At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life. The proprietress, Ikuyo, is a ridiculously good-natured woman who gives money to a poor but brilliant young man, Eisaku Yanoguchi, to attend college on the condition that he will take care of her in the future.
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On This Earth (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
地上
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / Hitomi Nozoe …
other title: 地上
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
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Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
混血児リカ ひとりゆくさすらい旅
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Rika Aoki / Toru Minegishi …
other title: 混血児リカ ひとりゆくさすらい旅
Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. Rica's looks into a ship that exploded and everyone who survived this disaster who comes in contact with her dies. Rica only chance of solving the mystery of the sunken ship is if she can locate a old friend of hers who just happened to be on that ship the night it blew up.
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Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
混血児リカ ハマぐれ子守唄
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Rika Aoki / Jiro Kawarazaki …
other title: 混血児リカ ハマぐれ子守唄
Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica could be considered a bit of an expert on reform schools, having spent most of her early life in and out of them. When Rica is dragged back once again, she gets a severe beating and is finally sent off to a mental hospital with the intention of selling her and her pals into a slave trade. A trader takes Rica's friend Jun to a mountain cottage where she's pegged for the lead in his clandestine porno film operation. Once again, it's up to tough-as-nails Rica to bust up this corrupt racket once and for all!
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The Tale of Genji (1951) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
源氏物語
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Kazuo Hasegawa / Denjirō Ōkōchi …
other title: Le roman de Genji / 源氏物語
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused.
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
鼠小僧次郎吉
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Masako Akeboshi / Ryōnosuke Azuma …
other title: 鼠小僧次郎吉
Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been commemorated in kabuki theatre, folk songs, jidaigeki, and modern pop culture.