Kotoe Hatsui — Actor (30)
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Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby (1973)
混血児リカ ハマぐれ子守唄
Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Rika Aoki / Jiro Kawarazaki …
other title: 混血児リカ ハマぐれ子守唄 / 混血儿的摇篮曲 …
Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica could be considered a bit of an expert on reform schools, having spent most of her early life in and out of them. When Rica is dragged back once again, she gets a severe beating and is finally sent off to a mental hospital with the intention of selling her and her pals into a slave trade. A trader takes Rica's friend Jun to a mountain cottage where she's pegged for the lead in his clandestine porno film operation. Once again, it's up to tough-as-nails Rica to bust up this corrupt racket once and for all!
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Kōgen ni ressha ga hashitta (1984)
高原に列車が走った WikiData TMDB
Takaharu Saeki actor: Jun Miho / Isao Bitō …
other title: 高原に列車が走った
At a certain high school in Karuizawa, students relied on ordinary local trains for their commute, but with only seven trains running per day, missing one meant spending two or three hours killing time in town. This sparse train schedule on the Shinetsu Main Line
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Blood-Red Water in the Channel (1961)
海峡、血に染めて IMDb TMDB
Seijun Suzuki actor: Kōji Wada / Ryōji Hayama …
other title: 海峡、血に染めて
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten. He became the new "teen star." And Suzuki: "the director to watch."
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Age of Nudity (1959)
素ッ裸の年令 IMDb TMDB
Seijun Suzuki actor: Keiichirō Akagi / Kyoko Hori …
other title: 素ッ裸の年令
The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal big bucks from the Yakuza.
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Story of a Prostitute (1965)
春婦伝
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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Hymn (1972)
讃歌 WikiData IMDb TMDB
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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The Possessed (1976)
妖婆 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Tadashi Imai actor: Machiko Kyō / Kazuko Inano …
other title: 妖婆
Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and do anything at all. Shinzo hated Oshima, and he made love with Sawa.
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970)
裸の十九才
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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Cleopatra: Queen of Sex (1970)
クレオパトラ
Osamu Tezuka / Eiichi Yamamoto actor: 中山千夏 / Hajime Hana …
other title: Cleopatra / Cleópatra: Rainha do Sexo …
Three people from the future, who travel spiritually to the era of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII Philopator and her Roman lovers Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, become their closest friends as they try to unravel the nature of the plan developed in their own time by a sinister enemy.
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Everything Goes Wrong (1960)
すべてが狂ってる WikiData IMDb TMDB
Seijun Suzuki actor: Tamio Kawachi / Yoshiko Nezu …
other title: On devient tous fous / すべてが狂ってる …
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song (1973)
女囚さそり　７０１号怨み節
Yasuharu Hasebe actor: Meiko Kaji / Masakazu Tamura …
other title: Sasori – Grudge Song / Mélodie de la rancune …
Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover they both have a score to settle with a particular crooked cop. However, Nami has doubts about ever trusting a man.
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Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl (1972)
混血児リカ
Kō Nakahira actor: Rika Aoki / Kazuko Nagamoto …
other title: 混血児リカ / 混血儿Rica …
First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.