Tanie Kitabayashi — Actor (23)
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Wrath of Daimajin (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
大魔神逆襲
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Hideki Ninomiya / Chikara Hashimoto …
other title: Daimajin - Frankensteins Monster nimmt Rache / Le Combat Final de Majin …
In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A band of young boys decide to rescue their enslaved fathers on their own.
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Terror in the Streets (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
悪魔が呼んでいる
director: Michio Yamamoto actor: Wakako Sakai / Katsutoshi Atarashi …
other title: 悪魔が呼んでいる
Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom, she begins to suspect someone is out to drive her insane, or worse.
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Odd Obsession (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
鍵
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Machiko Kyō / Ganjirō Nakamura II …
other title: Kagi / L'Étrange Obsession …
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.
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The Possessed (1976) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
妖婆
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Machiko Kyō / Kazuko Inano …
other title: 妖婆
Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and do anything at all. Shinzo hated Oshima, and he made love with Sawa.
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Rikyu (1989) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
利休
director: Hiroshi Teshigahara actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Yoshiko Mita …
other title: Rikyu der Teemeister / 利休 …
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord, unifying the country.
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Conflagration (1958) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
炎上
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: Conflagrazione / Le Pavillon d'Or …
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.
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Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987) [Movie] WikiData Skybridge IMDb TMDB
ゴキブリたちの黄昏
director: Hiroaki Yoshida actor: Kaoru Kobayashi / Ichirôta Miyakawa …
other title: ゴキブリたちの黄昏
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.
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The Human Bullet (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB
肉弾
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Minori Terada / Naoko Ohtani …
other title: Nikudan / La torpille humaine …
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.
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Call from Darkness (1981) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
真夜中の招待状
director: Yoshitarō Nomura actor: Asami Kobayashi / Kaoru Kobayashi …
other title: 真夜中の招待状
Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…
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Letter from the Mountain (2002) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban
阿弥陀堂だより
director: Takashi Koizumi actor: Akira Terao / Kanako Higuchi …
other title: Letters from the mountains / 阿弥陀堂だより
Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.
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Children of Hiroshima (1952) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
原爆の子
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Osamu Takizawa …
other title: I bambini di Hiroshima / Crianças de Hiroshima …
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
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Proof of the Man (1977) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
人間の証明
director: Junya Satō actor: Mariko Okada / George Kennedy …
other title: 人間の証明 / Sombras de una guerra …
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
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The Sun's Burial (1960) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
太陽の墓場
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Masahiko Tsugawa / Kayoko Honoo …
other title: Il cimitero del sole / 太陽の墓場 …
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.
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The Burmese Harp (1956) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
ビルマの竪琴
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Shōji Yasui …
other title: L'arpa birmana / Freunde bis zum letzten …
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
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A Story from Echigo (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
越後つついし親不知
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Yoshiko Sakuma / Shoichi Ozawa …
other title: 越後つついし親不知 / Story of Echigo
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home to find his wife changed and suspects that she has been unfaithful.
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Stakeout (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
張込み
director: Yoshitaro Nomura actor: Minoru Ōki / Takahiro Tamura …
other title: 張込み / Le Guet-apens …
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
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Writhing Tongue (1980) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB
震える舌
director: Yoshitaro Nomura actor: Mayuko Wakamori / Tsunehiko Watase …
other title: 震动的舌头 / 震える舌 …
Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible spasms. The doctor checks on her and arrives at the conclusion that she has tetanus. Her parents have to bear the sufferings of their child. The once peaceful family has changed completely.