Taiji Tonoyama — Actor (117)
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Tree Without Leaves (1986) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
落葉樹
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Les Arbres à feuilles caduques / El árbol sin hojas …
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.
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Tower of Lilies (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ひめゆりの塔
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Keiko Tsushima / Eiji Okada …
other title: La Tour des lys / ひめゆりの塔
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.
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Harbor Rats (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
海の野郎ども
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Shōji Yasui …
other title: 海の野郎ども
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were oppressed by arrogant captain and his officers. The crews caused an uprising. A manager of stevedore ordered his employee leader to suppress an uprising...
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Birth of a Jazz Maiden (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ジャズ娘誕生
director: Masahisa Sunohara actor: Chiemi Eri / Yūjirō Ishihara …
other title: ジャズ娘誕生
Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a young student, Katō Yutaka, who asks her to let him take her picture. The peddlers also meet a jazz band, and when Midori sings a song, teased by the band's star singer Nanjō Haruo, the band members are enraptured by her beautiful voice. She eventually joins the band and quickly becomes a popular jazz singer.
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Day Dream (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
白日夢
director: Tetsuji Takechi actor: Kyōko Aizome / Kei Satō …
other title: Daydream / 白日夢
Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist's waiting room. Though he is attracted to the woman, he says nothing to her. They are later in the same examining room. When he is given an anesthetic, he begins to imagine a series of scenes in which the woman undergoes various forms of sexual abuse, including rape and torture. When the artist recovers from the anesthetic, he finds clues showing that he may not have been hallucinating.
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The Champion (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
勝利者
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Tatsuya Mihashi / Yōko Minamida …
other title: 勝利者 / Shori-sha …
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He lost a title match five years ago as he was besotted by Natsuko, but Eikichi actually cannot give up the dream of the championship. One day, he meets Shuntaro Fuma, who is a punk kid but a promising boxer, and realizes the dream that he himself could never fulfill. Then, they together start to train with the aim of the title. Mari Shiraki is an up-and-coming ballerina under the patronage of Eikichi as well. Eikichi forbids Shuntaro and Mari to be romantically involved with someone during their training, however, they start to go on a date.
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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] IMDb WikiData TMDB
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] IMDb WikiData TMDB
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] TMDB IMDb
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.