Kumi Mizuno — Actor (48)
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Till Tomorrow Is (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
明日ある限り
director: Shirō Toyoda actor: Kyōko Kagawa / Shūji Sano …
other title: 明日ある限り
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attempted surgery and years of struggle, her condition proves permanent. Growing up, she faces stigma and danger but eventually finds hope and love with a fellow blind student.
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The Last Game (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
英霊たちの応援歌
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Toshiyuki Nagashima / Hiroshi Katsuno …
other title: 英霊たちの応援歌
After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game before they are drafted into the armed forces and face the hardships of military service.
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Whirlwind (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
士魂魔道 大龍巻
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Akihiko Hirata …
other title: Tourbillon / 士魂魔道 大龍巻
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post battle chaos and the persecution of the Shogun's army. Five samurai decide on different fates when it becomes clear that their side is being destroyed. One wants to attack the enemy head on in a final honorable death. Another decides to commit hari-kiri but wants to find a glorious view to do it. His close friend, the "coward", just wants to run and give up the life of a samurai. The final two set their own castle on fire to garner favors from the enemy and therefore avert their own death during the massacre of all defeated soldiers as
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Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
女の警察　乱れ蝶
director: Keiichi Ozawa actor: Akira Kobayashi / Ryōhei Uchida …
other title: 女の警察　乱れ蝶
Aboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a young tough, who supplies hostesses to night spots, encounters Yuko, his ex-sweetheart. He considers himself a private underworld sort of policeman-in the com- munity of such women. Yuko, now a bar proprietress, is under the protection of Tahei Daigo, a sinister gang boss who in his quest for chances of good investments abroad plans to offer young girls to rich foreigners. Asked to gather attractive girls by Yuko, now Tahei's puppet, Masaaki collects many only to find them mysteriously missing...
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Gambler's Legacy (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
渡世人列伝
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Koji Tsuruta / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: 渡世人列伝
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible for the death of their former leader.
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Counterstroke (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
吼えろ脱獄囚
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Makoto Satō / Yōsuke Natsuki …
other title: 吼えろ脱獄囚
Ryusuke and Joe Oki escape from prison. Ryusuke was incarcerated for killing his younger brother Yasuhiko, who was a bouncer at the cabaret "Three Cats" and Junko's lover who worked at the same restaurant. Of course, Ryusuke did not commit this crime...
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Big Shots Die at Dawn (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
顔役暁に死す
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Yūzō Kayama / Kumi Mizuno …
other title: 顔役暁に死す
Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.
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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).
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A Whistle in My Heart (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
コタンの口笛
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Ken Yamauchi / Ryoko Koda …
other title: Le Sifflement de Kotan / El silbido de Kotan …
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
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Summer Clouds (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
鰯雲
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Chikage Awashima / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: Nuvole estive / Nuages d'été …
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.