Yoshikata Yoda — Playwright (35)
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Tough Guy (1961) WikiData IMDb TMDB
悪名
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Shintarō Katsu / Jirō Tamiya …
other title: 悪名
Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi and Sada set out to rescue her.
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Sisters of the Gion (1936) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
祇園の姉妹
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Isuzu Yamada / Yōko Umemura …
other title: Le sorelle di Gion / As Irmãs de Gion …
A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes this, thinking that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them.
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The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
残菊物語
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Shōtarō Hanayagi / Kakuko Mori …
other title: La storia dell'ultimo crisantemo / O Conto dos Crisântemos Tardios …
In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the praise he receives is only due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully joins him.
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The Mad Fox (1962) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
恋や恋なすな恋
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Hashizo Ōkawa / Michiko Saga …
other title: La renarde folle / 恋や恋なすな恋 …
A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on the horizon after he becomes romantically involved with his dead lover's twin sister, but more complications arise thanks to a chance encounter with a clan of shape-shifters.
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Sound in the Mist (1956) IMDb TMDB NeoDB
霧の音
director: Hiroshi Shimizu actor: Ken Uehara / Michiyo Kogure …
other title: O Som do Nevoeiro / Le Chant de la brume …
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Kazuhiko's wife Kazuyo comes to see them and confronts the professor about his extramarital affair, and Tsuruko, an inevitable witness to the confrontation, leaves the professor the following morning. Over the next decade, whenever he visits the mountain cabin every autumn equinox, the memory of Tsuruko will forever haunt Kazuhiko...