Tomoyuki Tanaka — Producer (65)
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A Whistle in My Heart (1959) IMDb TMDB
コタンの口笛
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Ken Yamauchi / Ryoko Koda …
other title: Le Sifflement de Kotan / El silbido de Kotan …
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
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The Angry Street (1950) IMDb TMDB NeoDB
怒りの街
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Jūkichi Uno / Yasumi Hara …
other title: La Rue en colère / 怒りの街 …
University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Sudo becomes gradually involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sister Masako. In this world of bad boys and girls, Masako is the pillar of strength and moral virtue who finally enables Mori to straighten out.
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Untamed Woman (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
あらくれ
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Ken Uehara …
other title: Une femme indomptable / Una mujer indomable …
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
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Farewell Rabaul (1954)
さらばラバウル
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Mariko Okada …
other title: さらばラバウル / 再见了拉包尔 …
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little regard for life. Seeking the companionship of any woman who will have them, they spend their days indulging in every fantasy in order to escape the overwhelming fear of death looming just over the horizon.
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Zero (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB
零戦燃ゆ
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Jun Hashizume / Yu Hayami …
other title: Kampfgeschwader Zero / Zero, l'enfer du pacifique …
Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.
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Submersion of Japan (1973) IMDb TMDB
日本沈没
director: Shirō Moritani actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Hiroshi Fujioka …
other title: Pianeta Terra: anno zero / Der Untergang Japans …
A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, will be pulled into the ocean, killing millions.
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Blueprint of Murder (1961) WikiData IMDb TMDB
暗黒街の弾痕
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Yūzō Kayama / Makoto Satō …
other title: 暗黒街の弾痕
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has a fatal accident. As his brother investigates the "Accident" with his old college friend (makoto Sato), now a reporter... They stumble across murder, espionage and cover-ups. High-class night club, femme fatale, and a "Blueprint of Murder" all adds up to a bigger plot then first expected.
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Sword for Hire (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
戦国無頼
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: Sengoku burai / 戦国無頼 …
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.