Toshiko Kobayashi — Actor (20)
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The Story of Pure Love (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
純愛物語
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Shinjirō Ehara / Hitomi Nakahara …
other title: Un amour pur / 純愛物語 …
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.
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Summer Soldiers (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
サマー・ソルジャー
director: Hiroshi Teshigahara actor: Keith Sykes / Reisen Ri …
other title: サマー・ソルジャー
During the Vietnam War, an American G.I. deserts his base in Japan and escapes to Tokyo with the help of his Japanese bar hostess girlfriend. In the capital he gets involved with an anti-war organization while dodging the military police.
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The Eternal Rainbow (1958) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
この天の虹
director: 木下惠介 actor: 久我美子 / 川津祐介 …
other title: 天外的彩虹 / この天の虹 …
Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
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She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
野菊の如き君なりき
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Noriko Arita / Shinji Tanaka …
other title: Comme une fleur des champs / Ella era como un crisantemo salvaje …
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
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The River Fuefuki (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
笛吹川
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Takahiro Tamura / Hideko Takamine …
other title: 笛吹川 / La Rivière Fuefuki …
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
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Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB WikiData
二十四の瞳
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Hideko Takamine / Hideki Gôko …
other title: Ventiquattro occhi / Vierundzwanzig Augen …
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
人間の條件　第１部純愛篇／第２部激怒篇
9.2 (5 ratings) director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: La Condizione Umana: Parte I – Nessun amore è più grande / Guerra e Humanidade I: Não Há Amor Maior …
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
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Cruel Story of Youth (1960) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
青春残酷物語
7.4 (5 ratings) director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Yūsuke Kawazu / Miyuki Kuwano …
other title: Racconto crudele della giovinezza / Contos Cruéis da Juventude …
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.