Yoshio Shirasaka — Playwright (35)
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Kojiro (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
佐々木小次郎
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Yōko Tsukasa / Yuriko Hoshi …
other title: 佐々木小次郎
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi (Tatsuya Nakadai). Oscar winning Hiroshi Inagaki directs this epic motion picture based on Genzo Murakami’s fascinating story. Despite his humble birth, the orphan Sasaki Kojiro (Onoe Kikunosuke) is determined to become the foremost swordsman in all Japan, a title that traditionally belongs to a nobleman. At fencing school, young Kojiro receives the contempt of his classmates because of his superior swordsmanship. When rumors of the upcoming civil war between Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans spread, Kojiro leaves the school and sets out, seizing every opportunity to realize his dream.
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The Blue Beast (1960) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
青い野獣
director: Hiromichi Horikawa actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: 青い野獣
The ruthless and ambitious Yasuhiko uses his charm to manipulate and exploit those around him to climb the corporate social ladder. After securing a position at a prestigious firm through deceit, he callously discards the women who helped him and embezzles company funds to further his personal gain. His cold-blooded ascent eventually leads to a web of blackmail and moral decay as his past actions begin to catch up with him.
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The Age of Our Own (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
われらの時代
director: Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Misako Watanabe …
other title: われらの時代
Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named Wilson. Whenever Wilson comes, Yasuo spends his time in the tea-shop "La Gana." Yasuo is asked by his brother Shigeru to teach French to Akiko, a young girl who is studying French songs. Yasuo then learns that he is the winner of an essay contest and will be offered a scholarship to study in France. Akiko, is now pregnant and Yasuo promises to break with Yuriko.
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Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
水戸黄門 助さん格さん大暴れ
director: Tadashi Sawashima actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Kinya Kitaoji …
other title: Zu, guerreros de la montaña mágica / 水戸黄門 助さん格さん大暴れ
The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and coming stars, Sasaki Sukesaburo (Matsukata), the son of a widower and Atsumi Kakunoshin (Kitaoji), whose mother is a widow find themselves constantly in trouble and are forced to become two of the most powerful fighters in all Japan. The stories about Mito Komon and his travels througout Japan are many, but this is one that had yet to be told. The struggles of Suke-san and Kaku-san faced in order to join the Elder in his quest to fight against injustice and corruption during the samurai era.
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Glory on the Summit (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
山の讃歌　燃ゆる若者たち
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Takahiro Tamura / Tamotsu Hayakawa …
other title: 山の讃歌　燃ゆる若者たち
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.
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Dog of Fortune (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
黄金の犬
director: Shigeyuki Yamane actor: Koji Tsuruta / Yoko Shimada …
other title: 黄金の犬
From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds.
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The Cast-Off (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
氾濫
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Shin Saburi / Ayako Wakao …
other title: 氾濫
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
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Main Line to Terror (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
動脈列島
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Masaomi Kondo / Jirō Tamiya …
other title: 動脈列島
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
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Superexpress (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
黒の超特急
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Jirō Tamiya / Yukiko Fuji …
other title: Le Train super-express noir / 黒の超特急 …
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express
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Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
曽根崎心中
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Meiko Kaji / Ryudo Uzaki …
other title: Double suicide à Sonezaki / Doble suicidio en Sonezaki …
Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.