Kaneto Shindō — Playwright (75)
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Tadare (1962) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
爛
director: 増村保造 actor: 若尾文子 / Reiko Fujiwara …
other title: 烂 / 爛 …
High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to secure her future, she aggressively manipulates him into divorcing his wife, only for their new marriage to be destabilized by the arrival of her young niece.
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Edo Porn (1981)
北斎漫画
director: 新藤兼人 actor: 绪形拳 / 田中裕子 …
other title: 北斋漫画 / 北斎漫画 …
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
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Devil's Temple (1969)
鬼の棲む舘
director: 三隅研次 actor: 胜新太郎 / 高峰秀子 …
other title: 鬼栖寺 / 鬼の棲む舘 …
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, and a vicious killer. Bloody violence erupts whenever strangers approach the temple. Can the traveling priest bring his belief in the Buddha and rid the three temple residents of the devils that hold their souls?
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The Ladder of Success (1958) IMDb TMDB NeoDB
夜の素顔
director: 吉村公三郎 actor: 京マチ子 / 若尾文子 …
other title: 夜の素顔
A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way to the top.
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The Incident (1978) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
事件
director: 野村芳太郎 actor: 丹波哲郎 / 芦田伸介 …
other title: 事件 / L'Incident
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds.
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The Three Undelivered Letters (1979) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
配達されない三通の手紙
director: 野村芳太郎 actor: Komaki Kurihara / Takao Kataoka …
other title: 配達されない三通の手紙 / 没有发出的三封信 …
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.
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The Wife Of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
華岡青洲の妻
director: 增村保造 actor: 市川雷藏 / 若尾文子 …
other title: Hanaoka Seishû no tsuma / 华岗青洲之妻 …
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments
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A Design for Dying (1961) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
女の勲章
director: 吉村公三郎 actor: 京町子 / 若尾文子
other title: Onna no kunshô / 女の勲章 …
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.
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Destiny's Son (1962)
斬る
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Mayumi Nagisa …
other title: Tuer ! / 斬る
In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s concubine. Decades later, his adoptive family is massacred for keeping the secret. Armed with an unbeatable swordfighting technique, Shingo embarks on the path of the masterless samurai in search of vengeance and a path beyond his own ignominious origins.