Ichirō Ikeda — Playwright (27)
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The Young and Bad (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
若くて悪くて凄いこいつら
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Hideki Takahashi / Masako Izumi …
other title: 若くて悪くて凄いこいつら
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suicide. There was nothing in his life anymore that he could look forward to. Sochiro was ready to put an to it end to all. As he drives down the Usui Pass, headed toward his summer house in Karuizawa, a girl in red heels, wearing nothing else but a coat jumps in front of the car.
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Bright Sea (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
光る海
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Sayuri Yoshinaga / Mitsuo Hamada …
other title: 光る海 / La Mer étincelante
On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would always come out on top, and she did. With a victorious graduation behind her, she plans out the next chapter of her life: become a successful novelist and go out with a classmate she's been secretly eyeing for the past couple of years.
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Taking the Castle (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
城取り
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Minoru Chiaki …
other title: 城取り / Taking The Castle
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to stand in Ieyasu's way - A lone wolf samurai by the name of Kagekatsu Uesugi. Inspired by Uesugi's courage to revolt, a young samurai warrior, Touzou Kuruma decides to join the fight. Their target: the Tamonyama Castle.
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Big Shots Die at Dawn (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
顔役暁に死す
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Yūzō Kayama / Kumi Mizuno …
other title: 顔役暁に死す
Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.
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Procurer of Hell (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
地獄の饗宴
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Tatsuya Mihashi / Reiko Dan …
other title: 地獄の饗宴
Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornographic pictures. He frequents a cafe run by two women, one of them a young widow with a son. They like him and think that he is an ordinary office worker. One day, Tobe accidentally discovers pictures of an acquaintance, Kanzaburo, with a woman and sets out to blackmail him. He soon finds out that Kanzaburo died in a train accident but things may not be what they seem
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My Second Brother (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
にあんちゃん
director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Kayo Matsuo …
other title: Il diario di Sueko - Il secondo fratello / O Meu Segundo Irmão …
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl, it was one of the first films to deal with the subject of zainichi identity and struggles in Japan.
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The Sex Check (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
セックス・チェック　第二の性
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Michiyo Yasuda / Ken Ogata …
other title: セックス・チェック　第二の性
Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a gigolo until a chance meeting with a fiery young athlete named Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda). Realizing that she has talent as a sprinter, Miyagi sees a second chance at Olympic glory in becoming her coach. Following Miyagi’s unconventional, military-style training, Hiroko sets a record for the 100-meter dash, but her greatest hurdle proves to be a “sex check” which all professional athletes must pass.
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Vixen (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
女体
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Ruriko Asaoka / Eiji Okada …
other title: Indagine su una ninfomane / 女体 …
Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swindle him out of two million yen for alleged rape by his son. Akie, Ishida's wife and the chairman's daughter, offers her a million, but he gives her what she demands. Now Michi is not only satisfied, but she has a mad desire for Ishida and calls him every day asking for a date. His sympathy for her gradually evolves into love, and he soon allows her insatiable passion to strip him of his decency.
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An Ode to Yakuza (1970) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
やくざ絶唱
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Shintarō Katsu / Naoko Ohtani …
other title: Ode Au Yakuza / やくざ絶唱 …
Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her to college and turning her into a perfect young lady. He's extremely fond of Akane. His fondness for her goes beyond how he feels about his mistress, Kanae. And yet, Akane feels alone. Now, a new tutor comes into her life that seems to have taken a liking to her...
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Facing to the Clouds (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
雲に向かって起つ
director: Eisuke Takizawa actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 雲に向かって起つ
A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Nakafuji. Reiko's father was a member of the Diet who was assassinated six years ago. Through Reiko, Takema joins Tsūkai-kai, a group of young people who respect her late father's political ideas. With the assistance of Tsukai-kai, Takema eventually uncovers the political scandal related to postwar compensation which led to the murder of Reiko's father.
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Wait for Tomorrow (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
あした晴れるか
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Izumi Ashikawa …
other title: あした晴れるか
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company which offers him an assignment to "Cover Tokyo" with a camera. But he is disillusioned when he is told he must work together with Miharu, a good looking girl in the film company's publicity department. Then the fun begins.
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Red Pier (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
赤い波止場
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Mie Kitahara …
other title: 赤い波止場
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.
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A Slope in the Sun (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
陽のあたる坂道
director: Tomotaka Tasaka actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Mie Kitahara …
other title: 陽のあたる坂道
The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji comes to light.
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That Guy and I (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
あいつと私
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Izumi Ashikawa …
other title: あいつと私
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.