Hisashi Igawa — Actor (75)
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Main Line to Terror (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
動脈列島
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Masaomi Kondo / Jirō Tamiya …
other title: 動脈列島
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
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Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
曽根崎心中
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Meiko Kaji / Ryudo Uzaki …
other title: Double suicide à Sonezaki / Doble suicidio en Sonezaki …
Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.
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Hole in the Pants (1984) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
パンツの穴
director: Norifumi Suzuki actor: Yoichi Yamamoto / Momoko Kikuchi …
other title: パンツの穴
A boy transfers into a new high school in the big city. He gets bullied, but meets a pretty girl. He tries to win her heart, but rivals abound. Debut video release from Pantsu no ana, a subsection of "BOMB" magazine.
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Fusa (1995) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
その木戸を通って
director: 市川昆 actor: 中井贵一 / 浅野优子 …
other title: 阿房 / その木戸を通って
Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.
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Lost in the Wilderness (1986) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
植村直己物語
director: Junya Satō actor: Toshiyuki Nishida / Chieko Baisho …
other title: Verschollen im Schnee / 植村直己物語 …
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1970, Uemura also accomplished several "firsts". He was the first man to reach the North Pole solo, climb Denali solo, and float down the Amazon river solo. In the film, Uemura returns to Tokyo after a stint in Siorapaluk in Northern Greenland. In Tokyo, he reconnects with an old friend and, over coffee, shares his life story - from his days as a college dropout to his successful expedition to the top of Everest.
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Song of the Devil (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
鬼の詩
director: Tetsutaro Murano actor: Saburo Date / Giichi Fujimoto …
other title: 鬼の詩
Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that Rokyu's rakugo is compromised by the elements of kabuki. But Bakyo changes his mind and determines to learn (or steal) Rokyu's craft and makes it his own.
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The Desperate (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
どろ犬
director: Takaharu Saeki actor: Minoru Ōki / Chisako Hara …
other title: どろ犬
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai pursues Chiyo, the mistress of a man who was arrested for extortion, and takes advantage of her weakness. However, as his colleague Tokumochi and others regard him with suspicion, he is tormented by remorse.
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The Living Koheiji (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
生きている小平次
director: Nobuo Aoyagi actor: Senjaku Nakamura / Kaoru Yachigusa …
other title: 生きている小平次 / Ikiteiru Koheiji
The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.
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Rikyu (1989) [Movie] WikiData IMDb 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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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro (1977) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
黒木太郎の愛と冒険
director: Azuma Morisaki actor: Kunie Tanaka / Mitsuko Baisho …
other title: 黒木太郎の愛と冒険
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.
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After the Rain (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
雨あがる
director: Takashi Koizumi actor: Akira Terao / Yoshiko Miyazaki …
other title: Dopo la pioggia / Depois da Chuva …
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers.
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Sada (1998) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
SADA 戯作・阿部定の生涯
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Hitomi Kuroki / Tsurutaro Kataoka …
other title: Sada: Gesaku · Abe Sada no shôgai / SADA 戯作・阿部定の生涯 …
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.
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The Barren Zone (1976) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
不毛地帯
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Asao Uchida / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: The Corporation / 不毛地帯
Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria. He is offered a position in the expansive Kinki Corporation, but rival corporations are competing for a government contract to produce fighter planes.
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Demon Pond (1979) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
夜叉ヶ池
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Tamasaburō Bandō V / Gō Katō …
other title: L'Étang du démon / El estanque endemoniado …
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants, including lovers Akira and Yuri, in their hands.