Susumu Fujita — Actor (17)
Currents of Youth (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
青春の気流
director: Osamu Fushimizu actor: Setsuko Hara / Hisako Yamane
other title: 青春の気流
It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latter man's daughter (Setsuko Hara) who is both beautiful and aggressive. Yet, he picks a woman who is less assertive as his bride.
Eight Views of Samurai (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
浪人八景
director: Tai Katō actor: Utaemon Ichikawa / Kōtarō Satomi
other title: 浪人八景
Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai family to pretend they are a married couple, and gets involved in the troubles of the samurai clan.
Blue Jeans Memory (1981) [Movie] TMDB
ブルージーンズメモリー BLUE JEANS MEMORY
other title: ブルージーンズメモリー BLUE JEANS MEMORY
A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The three decide to help her.
Challenge to Live (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
愛と炎と
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Tatsuya Mihashi / Yōko Tsukasa
other title: 愛と炎と
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during the Pacific War. Matters are complicated further when he falls in love with the soldier's younger sister (Tsukasa).
The Age of Beginnings (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
かけ出し時代
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Susumu Fujita / Setsuko Hara
other title: かけ出し時代
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets into trouble ending up at the police station slammer overnight. He has no material to write about and, with his assignment unfulfilled, faces a cross editor.
Three Women of the North (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
北の三人
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Setsuko Hara / Hideko Takamine
other title: 北の三人
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with one of them working with her dead fiancé's sister. The engaged man had gone to war and never returned.
A Descendant of Urashima Taro (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
浦島太郎の後裔
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Susumu Fujita / Hideko Takamine
other title: Les Descendants de Taro Urashima / 浦島太郎の後裔
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes populist politician in the Japanese Happiness Party.
Rampaging Dragon of the North (1966) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
北海の暴れ竜
other title: Le Dragon sauvage d'Hokkaido / 北海の暴れ竜
The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local gang leader. He sets out to avenge his father, keeping his plans secret from his mother who is cold to him since his perceived abandonment of the family. This wonderful, if little-seen, Fukasaku gem deals with family, community and what it means to do right by both.
The Gate of Youth (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
青春の門
director: Kirio Urayama actor: Sayuri Yoshinaga / Ken Tanaka
other title: 青春の門 / La Porte de la jeunesse
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a kind Korean and a Harley-riding yakuza.
Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
明日を創る人々
other title: I costruttori di domani / Aqueles que Constroem o Futuro
In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers around them strike for better conditions. As their conservative father opposes their activism, his own dismissal forces him to confront the realities of class struggle and join their fight for a fairer future. Now considered a lost film, Those Who Make Tomorrow was produced by Toho to promote unionization during Japan’s Allied Occupation.
Trap of Suicide Kilometer (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
国際秘密警察 虎の牙
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Tatsuya Mihashi / Yumi Shirakawa
other title: 国際秘密警察 虎の牙 / International Secret Police: Tiger's Fang
Klima, Deputy Minister of Industry of the Republic of Alabanda, has come to Japan to purchase materials for the water dam construction. Kitami, who called himself a salesman and met with Klima, acts as his bodyguard. However, Kitami learns that a large number of industrial cylinders unrelated to dam construction have been purchased, and Klima secretly confined her secretary, a former army colonel, and threatened to produce poisonous gas. Klima packed the gas in a cylinder and sent it to Alabanda in an attempt to cause a civil war between the government and the tribes. Around that time, Klima secretly investigated Kitami's identity and learned that he was a secret agent.
Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
フランケンシュタイン対地底怪獣
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Tadao Takashima / Nick Adams
other title: Frankenstein alla conquista della terra / Frankenstein – Der Schrecken mit dem Affengesicht
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.