Kaneto Shindō — Playwright (75)
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Challenge to Live (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
愛と炎と
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Tatsuya Mihashi / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: 愛と炎と
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during the Pacific War. Matters are complicated further when he falls in love with the soldier's younger sister (Tsukasa).
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Victory of Women (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
女性の勝利
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Kinuyo Tanaka / Michiko Kuwano …
other title: La Victoire des femmes / 女性の勝利
Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's democratized post-war legal system.
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Flame of My Love (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
わが恋は燃えぬ
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Kinuyo Tanaka / Mitsuko Mito …
other title: Il mio amore brucia / Flamme de mon amour …
In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.
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Dancing Girl (1951) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
舞姫
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Mieko Takamine / So Yamamura …
other title: La Danseuse / La bailarina …
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.
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Tree Without Leaves (1986) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
落葉樹
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Les Arbres à feuilles caduques / El árbol sin hojas …
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.
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The Precipice (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
氷壁
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Kenji Sugawara / Fujiko Yamamoto …
other title: 氷壁
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
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Two Wives (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
妻二人
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Ayako Wakao / Mariko Okada …
other title: Deux épouses / Two wives …
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven couples tautens right up to the nearly unbearable tension of the climax...
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The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge (1981) [Movie] TMDB
怪盗鼠小僧といれずみ判官
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Ken Ogata / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: 怪盗鼠小僧といれずみ判官
Magistrate Toyama no Kin-san is ordered to catch the phantom thief Nezumi Kozo, who is robbing daimyo and wealthy townspeople. Under the name of Nezumi Kozo, there is a small wholesaler Jiro. And once Toyama and Jiro, when they were young, were comrades who spent all their time gambling and having fun with women in the Yushima Tenjin area...
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Harbor Rats (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
海の野郎ども
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Shōji Yasui …
other title: 海の野郎ども
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were oppressed by arrogant captain and his officers. The crews caused an uprising. A manager of stevedore ordered his employee leader to suppress an uprising...
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The Navy (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
海軍
director: Shinji Murayama actor: Kinya Kitaoji / Sonny Chiba …
other title: 海軍
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his best friend Shinji to join him. As it turns out, however, Takao's poor health prevents him from entering the navy while his friend is chosen instead. As time goes by, Takao becomes a painter and changes his mind about the meaningfulness of war and fighting, while his friend goes the opposite path. Meanwhile Takao's sister falls in love with Shinji.
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The Geisha House (1999) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
おもちゃ
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Maki Miyamoto / Sumiko Fuji …
other title: La Maison des geishas / おもちゃ
Set in a Kyoto geisha house during the post-WWII era, the young Omocha begins her rigorous apprenticeship within the traditional community of geiko and maiko. She must navigate complex internal rivalries and a strict social hierarchy while the house struggles to maintain its customs. As modern society shifts around them, the residents face the increasing pressure of Japan's changing cultural identity.