Taiji Tonoyama — Actor (117)
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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] WikiData TMDB IMDb
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] WikiData TMDB IMDb
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] WikiData TMDB IMDb
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 IMDb WikiData
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] IMDb TMDB
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] IMDb TMDB
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 Douban TMDB IMDb
爛
director: 増村保造 actor: 若尾文子 / Reiko Fujiwara …
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.
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Sex & Fury (1973) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
不良姐御伝 猪の鹿お蝶
director: Norifumi Suzuki actor: Reiko Ike / Christina Lindberg …
other title: 猪鹿蝶 / 不良姐御伝 猪の鹿お蝶 …
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.
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Endless Desire (1958) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
果しなき欲望
director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Misako Watanabe …
other title: Desiderio inappagato / Desejo Insaciável …
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.
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A Pool Without Water (1982) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
水のないプール
director: 若松孝二 actor: 内田裕也 / 未唯 …
other title: 水のないプール / Piscine sans eau …
The man has a monotonous job punching tickets for the Japanese railway. One night, while walking home, he saves Jun from getting raped by two hoodlums. A few days later, he sneaks into her house but gets discovered. Later, as he watches his son subdue an insect with a chemical, the man gets an idea to subdue women while they're sleeping so he won't be discovered sneaking into their home. His new hobby spirals out of control as his confidence grows.
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Intentions of Murder (1964) [Movie] Douban IMDb NeoDB TMDB Skybridge
赤い殺意
director: 今村昌平 actor: 春川真澄 / Kō Nishimura …
other title: 赤色杀机 / 赤い殺意 …
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
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A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse (1975) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
怪猫トルコ風呂
director: 山口和彦 actor: 谷奈绪美 / 大原美佐 …
other title: 怪猫土耳其浴场 / 怪猫トルコ風呂 …
A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the help of the bathhouse owner’s wife.
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Children of Hiroshima (1952) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
原爆の子
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Osamu Takizawa …
other title: I bambini di Hiroshima / Crianças de Hiroshima …
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
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Yokohama BJ Blues (1981) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Skybridge TMDB IMDb
ヨコハマＢＪブルース
director: Eiichi Kudo actor: Yūsaku Matsuda / Mari Henmi …
other title: Yokohama BJ blues / ヨコハマＢＪブルース …
When his police detective best friend is killed, down-at-heel private eye and part-time blues singer BJ gets the blame. He must start his own investigation to clear his name, but what he uncovers is a tangled web involving crooked cops, drug-dealing gangsters, the city's underground gay and biker scenes, and even his past.