Isuzu Yamada — Actor (27)
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In Search of Mother (1931) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
瞼の母
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Misako Tokiwa …
other title: 瞼の母
His mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he grows up determined to reunite with her. Worried that she might be living in misery, he saves his money to help, only to find that she has married into wealth and social position and has no intention of seeing her outcast Yakuza son...
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Miniature (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
縮図
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Sumiko Hidaka …
other title: Epítome / 縮図 …
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
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365 Nights (1962) [Movie] TMDB
三百六十五夜
director: Kunio Watanabe actor: Ken Takakura / Yukiji Asaoka …
other title: 三百六十五夜
A touching drama about a love triangle between a young architect, Koroku, and two women, Ranko and Teruko. Ranko comes from a wealthy family and is offering to repay Koroku’s family debts in exchange for marriage, but Koroku is in love with his landlord’s daughter, Teruko. Things are further complicated when the wicked Tsugawa takes interest in both women, for his own marriage.
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The Seasons of Love (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
四季の愛欲
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Isuzu Yamada / Shōji Yasui …
other title: 四季の愛欲
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.
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Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
若さま侍捕物帖 黒い椿
director: Tadashi Sawashima actor: Hashizo Ōkawa / Satomi Oka …
other title: 若さま侍捕物帖 黒い椿
Escaping the hustle and bustle of Edo, the Young Lord came to Oshima Island in Izu to take a vacation. Unexpectedly, the island's boss, Amimoto, was brutally murdered with a harpoon. As usual, the Young Lord sets out to solve the case. However, most of the islanders have a grudge against Amimoto, and there are so many suspects that he is at his wits' end this time. Set against the beautiful sea of Izu and the majestic Mt. Mihara, the Young Lord's brilliant deductions and his secret sword Ichimonjo-Kakureshi cut through the mystery!
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Farewell to Dream (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
夕やけ雲
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Shinji Tanaka / Yūko Mochizuki …
other title: Nuages au crépuscule / 夕やけ雲
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
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Three Loves (1954) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
三つの愛
director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Isuzu Yamada / Keiko Kishi …
other title: Trois amours / 三つの愛 …
In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another boy who works in a brewery. Heita also finds solace in the village pastor Yasugi and his teacher Michiko, but they too have problems of their own.
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Home Sweet Home (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
我が家は樂し
director: Noboru Nakamura actor: Chishū Ryū / Isuzu Yamada …
other title: 我が家は樂し
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace, but has it stolen on the way home from the ceremony...
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Bonchi (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ぼんち
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Ayako Wakao …
other title: ぼんち
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.
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The Horse Boy (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
暴れん坊街道
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Shūji Sano / Isuzu Yamada …
other title: 暴れん坊街道
A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the child, now a stable boy, is reunited with his father, but feudal codes threaten their happiness. Uchida’s poignant masterpiece condemns the inflexible class system and launches an indictment of values that favor symbolic objects over human life. The film’s focus is on character rather than swordplay, and charged performances - especially child actor Motoharu Ueki - add to the emotional power.
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The Downfall of Osen (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
折鶴お千
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Isuzu Yamada / Daijiro Natsukawa …
other title: O-Sen delle cicogne di carta / La Cigogne en papier …
In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi and Osen, while swindling some Buddhist monks out of their temple treasures. When Kumazawa is arrested, Osen agrees to help Sokichi finance his dream of going to medical school. They live in a humble room, and eventually the only way Osen can find enough money for them is to prostitute herself during the day, without Sokichi knowing. (Will Gilbert)