Daigo Kusano — Actor (40)
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Heat Wave Island (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
かげろう
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Jūzō Itami …
other title: かげろう
Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution, and murder in which many poor farmers had found themselves trapped after World War II.
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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
大日本スリ集団
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Norihei Miki …
other title: 大日本スリ集団
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by Keiju Kobayashi) and the leader of the gang (played by Norihei Miki) have an interesting wartime backstory together that fuels much of the story.
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An Ocean to Cross (1980) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
天平の甍
director: Kei Kumai actor: Katsuo Nakamura / Masaaki Daimon …
other title: Un océan à traverser / 天平の甍
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.
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A Chorus of One Million People (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
百万人の大合唱
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Flower Meg / Hiroshi Ichimura …
other title: 百万人の大合唱 / Hyakuman-nin no Daigasshō
A civic music group, created by Tsukasa Nitta, a high school teacher in Koriyama City, and Akiko Watanabe, the daughter of a record shop and teacher of a music class, invites Takuro Yoshida to Koriyama City to hold a concert. He then starts being harassed by the Hashimoto group, a local gangster group which manages the city's entertainment.
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records (1982) [Movie] TMDB
地獄の左門 十手無賴帖
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Daigo Kusano …
other title: 地獄の左門 十手無賴帖
Samon Kamiyama, a skilled yoriki under Toyama Saemon-no-jō Kagemoto is feared and known to the villains as “Samon from the Hell.” Samon suspects that the drowning incident at the raw silk wholesaler Shinano-ya was the work of Maruya Rihei, a kimono wholesaler favored by the Ōoku, but has no evidence to prove his allegation. The elder Arao Tsushima-no-kami who is colluding with Maruya plan on building a gold mine on an uninhabited island using prisoners. Arao gives the supervision charge to Samon, who along with his comrades and Horikawa takes up his post on the island but is attacked by assassins one after another.
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Dinosaur Corps Koseidon (1978) [TV] IMDb TMDB WikiData
恐竜戦隊コセイドン
actor: Yoshihiro Onishi / Nanami Murano …
other title: Koseidon / 恐竜戦隊コセイドン
The series follows the adventures of Go, a superhero leading a patrol who travel in time to defeat the Godmess Empire, an alien armada who, after landing on Earth 70 million years ago, has altered the course of time. Go's enemies include dinosaurs which are telepathically controlled by the aliens. He has the ability to stop time for 30 seconds.
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The Most Dangerous Game (1978) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
最も危険な遊戯
director: Tōru Murakawa actor: Yūsaku Matsuda / Keiko Tasaka …
other title: 最も危険な遊戯
The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in a vicious power struggle between two large corporations over a sizable government defence contract.
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The Killing Game (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
殺人遊戯
director: Tōru Murakawa actor: Yūsaku Matsuda / Yutaka Nakajima …
other title: 殺人遊戯
The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes back he bumps into two women that he has spared five years ago. Two rival yakuza bosses hire Narumi to kill the other. Will Narumi's sense of chivalry entrap him again?
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Confessions Among Actresses (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
告白的女優論
director: Yoshishige Yoshida actor: Mariko Okada / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: Aveux, théories, actrices / 告白的女優論
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them has experienced a traumatic event which contributes to their particular enjoyment of becoming someone else in dramatic roles.