Daizaburo Hirata — Actor (12)
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Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
賭場の牝猫 捨身の勝負
director: Haruyasu Noguchi actor: Yumiko Nogawa / Joe Shishido …
other title: Revenge of the Woman Gambler / 賭場の牝猫 捨身の勝負 …
Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburban train, is the only woman able to beat the best professional players in Japan; or that she is wearing the tattoo of the man that loved her and died for her...
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Glass-Hearted Johnny (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
硝子のジョニー　野獣のように見えて
director: Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Joe Shishido / Izumi Ashikawa …
other title: 硝子のジョニー　野獣のように見えて / Glass Hearted Johnny
Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and her brutal yakuza pimp (George Ai).
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Story of a Prostitute (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
春婦伝
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Tamio Kawachi / Yumiko Nogawa …
other title: Storia di una prostituta / Nackt und verdammt …
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
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The Insect Woman (1963) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
にっぽん昆虫記
director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Sachiko Hidari / Jitsuko Yoshimura …
other title: Cronache entomologiche del Giappone / A Mulher Inseto …
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.