Taiji Tonoyama — Actor (64)
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Tales of President Mito (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
黄門社長漫遊記
director: Eiichi Koishi actor: Ken Takakura / Yoshiko Mita …
other title: 黄門社長漫遊記
Mr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quality problems and wins a big ramen contract with a large Chinese company.
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Eros Eterna (1977) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
聖母観音大菩薩
director: Kōji Wakamatsu actor: Eiko Matsuda / Osamu Sakuta …
other title: Éternel Eros / 聖母観音大菩薩 …
A woman believing to be a legendary immortal nun attracts people looking for answers to their life struggles.
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Afternoon Affair: Rear Window (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
昼下りの情事　裏窓
director: Shōgorō Nishimura actor: Kazuko Shirakawa / Junko Miyashita …
other title: 昼下りの情事　裏窓
For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot reach a climax unless they peek at a couple, across the way, making love. Intent on climbing up in the world, Ayuko uses all her wiles to get her patron, who is putty in her hands, to move her from her grubby apartment house to a dreamboat of a place. She then tries to find a place to work more befitting her new home but all the elite night clubs will have nothing to do with her and with time heavy on her hands, the devil finds mischief for idle hands to do.
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The Beauty and the Dragon (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
美女と怪龍
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Chiyonosuke Azuma / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: 美女と怪龍
​A powerful priest uses his magical abilities to imprison the rain gods within a waterfall, causing a devastating drought. The imperial court sends a princess to his remote mountain retreat to seduce him and break his spiritual concentration.
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An Innocent Witch (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
恐山の女
director: Heinosuke Gosho actor: Jitsuko Yoshimura / Keizō Kawasaki …
other title: 恐山の女
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions.
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The Desperate (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
どろ犬
director: Takaharu Saeki actor: Minoru Ōki / Chisako Hara …
other title: どろ犬
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai pursues Chiyo, the mistress of a man who was arrested for extortion, and takes advantage of her weakness. However, as his colleague Tokumochi and others regard him with suspicion, he is tormented by remorse.
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Hymn (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
讃歌
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Tokuko Watanabe …
other title: 讃歌 / Sanka
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings.
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
裸の十九才
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Daijirō Harada / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Vivir hoy, morir mañana / 裸の十九才 …
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman. As a boy Yamada, experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.
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Irezumi (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
雪華葬刺し
director: Yoichi Takabayashi actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Yūsuke Takita …
other title: Irezumi - Lo spirito del tatuaggio / Irezumi - Die tätowierte Frau …
To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by which his assistant, Harutsune, keeps Katsuko's mind off the pain while Kyogoro does his work. After the work is done, Harutsune makes the shocking discovery of how Kyogoro mastered his technique.
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Street of Joy (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
赤線玉の井 ぬけられます
director: Tatsumi Kumashiro actor: Junko Miyashita / Meika Seri …
other title: Straße der Lust / La calle de la alegría …
It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells happiness), five prostitutes decide to celebrate the day. Eroticism, drama, and comedy mix as each hour a different event passes, in which all the women's stories come to the surface.
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The Erotomaniac Daimyo (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
徳川セックス禁止令 色情大名
director: Norifumi Suzuki actor: Miki Sugimoto / Sandra Julien …
other title: L'impero della lussuria / Tokugawa Sex Ban: Lustful Lord …
Kiyohime, a daughter of Tokugawa Ienari is married-off to Tadateru Ogura, the lord of a Kyushu clan. However, the lord's sexual inexperience and Kiyohime's strict morals lead to significant crisis in their marriage. To improve his sexual prowess, the lord is introduced to Sandra, a French woman held captive by usurer-smuggler Hatakaya. This results in the lord's choosing Sandra as his mistress. Kiyohime's attendants see this move as an insult and have Sandra beaten and imprisoned. Nevertheless, Sandra escapes with the help of Morita, a retainer of the lord. Out of bitterness and as some sort of revenge, the lord imposes a sex ban on his subjects.
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Captive's Island (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
処刑の島
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Shogen Nitta / Rentarō Mikuni …
other title: La isla de la tortura / 処刑の島 …
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman.
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Sakura-tai Chiru (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
さくら隊散る
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Eitarō Ozawa / Koreya Senda …
other title: さくら隊散る
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.
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Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
第五福竜丸
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Jūkichi Uno / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Dragón de la suerte nº 5 / 第五福竜丸
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
黒木太郎の愛と冒険
director: Azuma Morisaki actor: Kunie Tanaka / Mitsuko Baisho …
other title: 黒木太郎の愛と冒険
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.
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Evil Spirits of Japan (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
日本の悪霊
director: Kazuo Kuroki actor: Kei Satō / Hideo Kanze …
other title: 日本の悪霊
Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical they look.
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The Rendezvous (1972) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
約束
director: 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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Tadare (1962) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban
爛
director: 増村保造 actor: 若尾文子 / Jiro Tamiya …
other title: 烂 / 爛 …
High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to secure her future, she aggressively manipulates him into divorcing his wife, only for their new marriage to be destabilized by the arrival of her young niece.