Yōzō Tanaka — Playwright (14)
The Friends (1994) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
夏の庭 The Friends
director:
Shinji Sōmai
actor:
Rentaro Mikuni
/
Naoki Sakata
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other title:
夏の庭 The Friends
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.
Zigeunerweisen (1980) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
ツィゴイネルワイゼン
director:
Seijun Suzuki
actor:
Toshiya Fujita
/
Naoko Ohtani
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other title:
Melodie zigane
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Mélodie tzigane
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A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
Kagero-za (1981) [Movie] IMDb Douban NeoDB WikiData TMDB
陽炎座
director:
Seijun Suzuki
actor:
Yūsaku Matsuda
/
Michiyo Yasuda
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other title:
Brumes de Chaleur
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陽炎座
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A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
Branded to Kill (1967) [Movie] WikiData TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
殺しの烙印
director:
Seijun Suzuki
actor:
Joe Shishido
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Kōji Nanbara
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other title:
La farfalla sul mirino
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La Marque du Tueur
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After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss (1975) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
新仁義なき戦い 組長の首
director:
Kinji Fukasaku
actor:
Bunta Sugawara
/
Meiko Kaji
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other title:
新仁義なき戦い 組長の首
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Nouveau combat sans code d'honneur 2 : La Tête du boss
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The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling for territorial rights and drug smuggling. The Owada sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers that he and Tetsu have been all but forgotten by the Owada. Feeling betrayed, Shuji takes matters into his own hands and becomes an unsuspecting pawn in an internal conflict and an assassination attempt on the Owada boss. And now angered, Shuji seeks revenge...
Trapped in Lust (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
愛欲の罠
director:
Atsushi Yamatoya
actor:
Genjiro Arato
/
Moeko Ezawa
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other title:
愛欲の罠
A hitman messes up an assassination and so becomes the next target of his organization.
Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion (1985) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Douban IMDb TMDB
雪の断章-情熱-
director:
Shinji Sōmai
actor:
Yuki Saito
/
Takaaki Enoki
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other title:
雪の断章-情熱-
Iori, taken from an orphanage by a family for domestic work, runs away and is adopted and raised by two young men. Ten years later, she crosses paths with her former step-sister, who is soon poisoned to death, Iori being the prime suspect.
Wife to Be Sacrificed (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
生贄夫人
director:
Masaru Konuma
actor:
Naomi Tani
/
Nagatoshi Sakamoto
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other title:
Wife To Be Sacrificed
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Une femme à sacrifier
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A wife charges her husband with sexual battery. He escapes from the police and goes into hiding. In three years, she divorces him and tries to put the pieces of her life back in order, when suddenly he returns. Obsessed with rage and hatred, he kidnaps her and brings her to a house in a remote wooded area. There he disciplines her vehemently, subjecting her to increasingly shocking forms of sexual torture, tetherings, suspensions and humiliations. Astonishingly, through the rage and lust, the pair develops a relationship that pushes the boundaries of lurid passions and perverse obsessions.
Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
暴走パニック 大激突
director:
Kinji Fukasaku
actor:
Tsunehiko Watase
/
Miki Sugimoto
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other title:
Violent Panic : The Big Crash
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暴走パニック 大激突
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.
The Hell-Fated Courtesan (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
(秘)女郎責め地獄
director:
Noboru Tanaka
actor:
Rie Nakagawa
/
Yuri Yamashina
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other title:
Osen la maudite
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(秘)女郎責め地獄
The story of a courtesan that was once popular in Yoshiwara. She is good-looking, but for some reason, three of her customers died unnaturally, one after another. As a result, she is feared by potential customers, and no one cares for her...
Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code of Honor (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
やくざ観音 情女仁義
director:
Tatsumi Kumashiro
actor:
Jiro Okazaki
/
Nozomi Yasuda
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other title:
やくざ観音 情女仁義
Monk Seigen saves Misako the daughter of an area Yakuza boss from some tough guys. The two become a couple and find themselves being pursued by some criminals. Seigen plunges deeper into a life of crime and sin.
Baian the Assassin (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
仕掛人梅安
director:
Yasuo Furuhata
actor:
Kinnosuke Nakamura
/
Mayumi Ogawa
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other title:
Master Assassin Baian
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仕掛人梅安
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This is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the famous Kabuki actor brothers Kinnosuke Manya and Katsuo Nakamura, who made the transition from the Kabuki world to the film industry, and a cast of gorgeous and diverse faces. The Edo period. Nagato Abe, a Hatamoto (a feudal lord), is annoyed by his son's bad behavior, and when it becomes a hindrance to his own career, he asks Otowaya Hanemon, a black marketeer, to assassinate his son. The target is then taken care of by the assassin, Umeyasu. In order to keep his mouth shut, Nagatomon no Mamoru also attempts to take Otowaya's life. Nagato's brother-in-law, Omiya Sahei, a corrupt merchant from the Kamigata region, also plans to replace Otowaya as the head of Edo's black market business, so Umebayashi and his fellow trapper Hikojiro set out to eliminate them.
A Mummy’s Love (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ミイラ の 恋
director:
Seijun Suzuki
actor:
Yūsuke Kawazu
/
Atsushi Yamatoya
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other title:
ミイラ の 恋
In post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of a legend about a mummified Buddhist monk who was revived and who, centuries later, turned into a sex demon who terrorized a village in pre-modern Japan.