Taiji Tonoyama — Actor (117)
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Temptation (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
誘惑
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Koreya Senda / Sachiko Hidari …
other title: 誘惑
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.
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The House of the Sleeping Virgins (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
眠れる美女
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Takahiro Tamura / Yoshiko Kayama …
other title: Nemureru bijo / 眠れる美女
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.
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On This Earth (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
地上
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / Hitomi Nozoe …
other title: 地上
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
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Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
混血児リカ ひとりゆくさすらい旅
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Rika Aoki / Toru Minegishi …
other title: 混血児リカ ひとりゆくさすらい旅
Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. Rica's looks into a ship that exploded and everyone who survived this disaster who comes in contact with her dies. Rica only chance of solving the mystery of the sunken ship is if she can locate a old friend of hers who just happened to be on that ship the night it blew up.
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Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
混血児リカ ハマぐれ子守唄
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Rika Aoki / Jiro Kawarazaki …
other title: 混血児リカ ハマぐれ子守唄
Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica could be considered a bit of an expert on reform schools, having spent most of her early life in and out of them. When Rica is dragged back once again, she gets a severe beating and is finally sent off to a mental hospital with the intention of selling her and her pals into a slave trade. A trader takes Rica's friend Jun to a mountain cottage where she's pegged for the lead in his clandestine porno film operation. Once again, it's up to tough-as-nails Rica to bust up this corrupt racket once and for all!
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The Far Road (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
遠い一本の道
director: Sachiko Hidari actor: Hisashi Igawa / Sachiko Hidari …
other title: 遠い一本の道
Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in the northern part of Japan. The ferocious local class restrictions work to keep her husband in his place, as does his lack of education.
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Love and Faith (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
お吟さま
director: Kei Kumai actor: Ryoko Nakano / Takashi Shimura …
other title: Mademoiselle Ogin / お吟さま
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin's father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord's plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
まむしの兄弟　傷害恐喝十八犯
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Bunta Sugawara / Tsunehiko Watase …
other title: まむしの兄弟　傷害恐喝十八犯
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Sugawara tries to overcome a traumatic experience of getting in bed blindfolded with a girl who turned out to be an old granny. Later he and Kawaji try to settle down in a neighbourhood harassed by businessman yakuza Bin Amatsu.
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Hawaiian Dream (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
ハワイアン・ドリーム
director: Tōru Kawashima actor: Saburo Tokito / Johnny Ohkura …
other title: ハワイアン・ドリーム
Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, having flown out of Japan and entered the country illegally for a reason. The two make a living by trafficking pakalolo – marijuana – under the pretext of selling tea leaves, but they are in a foreign land where they don't speak the language well. When they get busted by the chief of police, they're forced to make a deal and and help get a local crime boss masquerading as a benevolent celebrity arrested.
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Dear Summer Sister (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
夏の妹
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Hiromi Kurita / Hōsei Komatsu …
other title: Um Verão em Okinawa / Kleine Sommerschwester …
14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes them to the locale’s tourist attractions, quickly delving into the underlying scars of the island’s wartime history.
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Wind, Woman and Road (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
風と女と旅鴉
director: Tai Katō actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: 風と女と旅鴉
A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmers transporting gold to the governor think they are about to be robbed as the two gamblers face off against each other swords in hand.
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River of Fireflies (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
螢川
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Yukiyo Toake …
other title: 螢川
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family's situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.
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Our Town (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
わが町
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Ryūtarō Tatsumi / Yōko Minamida …
other title: わが町
In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love with Shintaro. But Takichi objects to their relationship...
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My Second Brother (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
にあんちゃん
director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Kayo Matsuo …
other title: Il diario di Sueko - Il secondo fratello / O Meu Segundo Irmão …
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl, it was one of the first films to deal with the subject of zainichi identity and struggles in Japan.
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The Homeless (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
無宿 やどなし
director: Kōichi Saitō actor: Ken Takakura / Shintarō Katsu …
other title: 無宿 やどなし
Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the acquaintance of a would-be prostitute. They help her escape and decide to guide her on her quest for sunken contraband somewhere off the coast.