Keiko Kishi — Actor (21)
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Doctor's Day Off (1952)
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Minoru Shibuya actor: Eijirō Yanagi / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: 本日休診 / Pas de consultations aujourd'hui
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...
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Three Loves (1954)
三つの愛
Masaki Kobayashi actor: Isuzu Yamada / Keiko Kishi …
other title: Trois amours / 三つの愛 …
In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another boy who works in a brewery. Heita also finds solace in the village pastor Yasugi and his teacher Michiko, but they too have problems of their own.
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Kah-chan (2001)
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Kon Ichikawa actor: Keiko Kishi / Ryuji Harada …
other title: かあちゃん
Okatsu is a widow raising five children – adults but still mama-dependent – in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering comment even amid national tough times (the region is in famine) What Okatsu tells no one is that she saves so that a friend can start his own business once he's released from prison.
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Queen Bee (1978)
女王蜂 IMDb TMDB
Kon Ichikawa actor: Koji Ishizaka / Keiko Kishi …
other title: 女王蜂
To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all.
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Hunter in the Dark (1979)
闇の狩人
Hideo Gosha actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Keiko Kishi …
other title: Chasseurs des ténèbres / 闇の狩人 …
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his boss's enemies almost overwhelming.
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Snow Country (1957)
雪国
Shirō Toyoda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Keiko Kishi …
other title: Pays de la neige / 雪国 …
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?
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Two in the Amsterdam Rain (1975)
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Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Kenichi Hagiwara / Keiko Kishi …
other title: 雨のアムステルダム
Sakuda is a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam. When his company gets exposed for exporting fire arms to Italy that are later repurposed for war in Africa, he finds himself involved in a major complot alongside Ryo, a woman from his native village whom he falls in love with.
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The Rendezvous (1972)
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Kōichi Saitō actor: Keiko Kishi / Kenichi Hagiwara …
other title: Le Rendez-vous / 約束 …
The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
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The Makioka Sisters (1983)
細雪
Kon Ichikawa actor: Keiko Kishi / Yoshiko Sakuma …
other title: Les Quatre sœurs Makioka / Las hermanas Makioka …
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.
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Her Brother (1960)
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市川昆 actor: Keiko Kishi / 川口浩 …
other title: 弟弟 / おとうと …
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
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The Yakuza (1974)
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Sydney Pollack actor: Robert Mitchum / Ken Takakura …
other title: Yakuza / Den hemmelige liga
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
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The Fossil (1975)
化石
Masaki Kobayashi actor: Shin Saburi / Keiko Kishi …
other title: 化石 / Les Fossiles …
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the personification of his impending death. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he actually meets the living woman who is the template for his fantasy, and together they tour rural churches. Gradually he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges which profoundly test the lessons he has learned.
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The Twilight Samurai (2002)
たそがれ清兵衛
Yoji Yamada actor: Hiroyuki Sanada / Rie Miyazawa …
other title: Il crepuscolo del samurai / A Sombra do Samurai …
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
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Red Suspicion (1975)
赤い疑惑 TMDB
actor: Momoe Yamaguchi / Tomokazu Miura …
other title: 赤い疑惑
Sachiko is the 17-year old daughter of radiotherapist Professor Oshima. After exposure to radiation in the hospital, she develops leukemia. As if that was not enough trouble for one lifetime, discovers that Oshima is not her real father, and that her boyfriend is really her half brother.
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Bread and Soup and Cat Weather (2013)
パンとスープとネコ日和 TMDB
actor: Satomi Kobayashi / Kana …
other title: パンとスープとネコ日和 / Pan To Soup To Neko Biyori
Akiko (Satomi Kobayashi) lives with her mother, but suddenly her mother passes away. Since then she quits her editing job and takes over her mother's small restaurant. At the restaurant there's only two items on the menu: sandwich and soup.
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Kwaidan (1965)
怪談
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Masaki Kobayashi actor: Michiyo Aratama / Rentarō Mikuni …
other title: Kwaidan - Storie di fantasmi / Kwaïdan …
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.