Yūko Kusunoki — Actor (26)
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The Betrayers Out! (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
望郷と掟
director: Yoshitarō Nomura actor: Noboru Andō / Kiyoshi Atsumi …
other title: 望郷と掟
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.
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Convicted Woman (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
女犯破戒
director: Eiichi Kudō actor: Mayumi Ogawa / Yuriko Mishima …
other title: 女犯破戒
Set in the decadent mid-Edo period, this unconventional work depicts the story of a man who, after being pursued as one half of a double suicide, enters the Buddhist priesthood, breaks his vows, and emerges as a notorious villainous monk.
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
夜の牝 花と蝶
director: Katsumi Nishikawa actor: Yumiko Nogawa / Shin'ichi Mori …
other title: 夜の牝 花と蝶
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors who, after her father's death, disbanded her gang and moved to Tokyo by herself, where she becomes a hostess and demonstrates her natural chivalrous temperament, risking her life in the neon-lit Ginza district.
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He's the Witness (1960) [Movie] TMDB
銀座旋風児　目撃者は彼奴だ
director: Haruyasu Noguchi actor: Akira Kobayashi / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 銀座旋風児　目撃者は彼奴だ
Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association, and he disguises himself.
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The Seasons of Love (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
四季の愛欲
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Isuzu Yamada / Shōji Yasui …
other title: 四季の愛欲
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.
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Whirlpool of Flesh (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
おんなの渦と淵と流れ
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Noboru Nakaya / Kazuko Inano …
other title: おんなの渦と淵と流れ
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that results in her sleeping with a great number of men.
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Carmen from Kawachi (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
河内カルメン
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Yumiko Nogawa / Kōji Wada …
other title: 河内カルメン / Carmen de Kawachi …
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.
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The Rambler in the Sunset (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
赤い夕陽の渡り鳥
director: Buichi Saitō actor: Akira Kobayashi / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 赤い夕陽の渡り鳥
The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town while encountering the sinister rival, Masa "the pistol guy".
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Return of the Vagabond (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
渡り鳥いつまた帰る
director: Buichi Saitō actor: Akira Kobayashi / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 渡り鳥いつまた帰る / Return Of The Vagabond
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives in Sadogashima Island, Niigata, Japan. Of course, Shinji meets yet another beautiful girl named Noriko, who closely resembles the famous actress Ruriko Asaoka again. Of course, Noriko is in trouble. Of course, Shinji's yet another skilled rival named "Tetsu, the Gunman" comes to Sado shortly. Of course, the villain tries to kill Shinji and Tetsu. Of course, Shinji solves the problem and leaves Sado suddenly.
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The Challenge (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
誇り高き挑戦
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Koji Tsuruta / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: Défi d'amour propre – Fierté agressive / 誇り高き挑戦 …
Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of political corruption, hypocrisy, and journalistic cowardice in postwar Japan.
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The Flower and the Sword (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
男の紋章　花と長脇差
director: Eisuke Takizawa actor: Hideki Takahashi / Masako Izumi …
other title: 男の紋章　花と長脇差
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary.
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House of Terrors (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
怪談せむし男
director: Hajime Sato actor: Kō Nishimura / Masumi Harukawa …
other title: Il pozzo di Satana / Le fantôme du bossu …
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant and his niece) fail to heed the caretaker's warnings and are slaughtered horribly by the jealous occupants.
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The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map (1979) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
十九歳の地図
director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi actor: Yūji Honma / Keizo Kanie …
other title: 十九歳の地図 / Jūkyūsai no Chizu …
A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.
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Intentions of Murder (1964) [Movie] Douban IMDb NeoDB TMDB Skybridge
赤い殺意
director: 今村昌平 actor: 春川真澄 / Kō Nishimura …
other title: 赤色杀机 / 赤い殺意 …
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
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Dodesukaden (1970) [Movie]
どですかでん
director: 黑泽明 actor: 头师佳孝 / 菅井琴 …
other title: 电车狂 / どですかでん …
这是一个市井的故事，发生在任何发展中国家高楼大厦的背面；这是普罗大众真实的社会，在主流媒体有意无意的忽略中。
影片片名出自电影主人公的口头禅（Dodes'ka-den），一种模仿电车行走的声音。在人的世界里总要发出一点声音指证你的存在。
在隆隆的电车声中，我们看见你的笑容，智障的小六，安详而自得。
来来往往的电车一天又一天，时序的轮回中，普罗大众的每一天都是相同的，无奈而无助，在个体无法抗衡运命的那刻。小六的智障何尝不是一种幸福。
对于市井中的芸芸众生，活着，有时只是一口气，他们的每一天都为着生计和饭钵忙碌，沉重而又无望。在这点上而言，智障的小六何尝不是一种幸福。
存在的世界，思考的人因为思考招致的烦忧还少吗？
小六的家母吟诵着经文，一旁的小六合十拜佛，祈祷佛佑其母，此一细节说明了小六的善良和乐观，活在无奈中的底层人民，学习些阿Q精神或者更能面对凄苦的生存状态吧！智障的人和清醒的人，到底哪一种人更幸福？！
两个人的祈佛声越来越响，在无法改观境遇的存在中，留下一个希望总比没有希望好。
智障的小六以为自己是个电车司机，每一天准时在贫民窟的垃圾场边风雨无阻开着子虚乌有的电车，这就是母子每天的生活，噙泪的母亲总是呆呆望着沉浸在另一个世界中的孩子，母亲的辛酸只有母亲一人独存。
这样一个题材，黑泽明却用小六家那堵色彩艳丽画满电车的墙，表述着心念中对美好世界的希望，那些天真的蜡笔画是生命在灰暗中对亮色的一种期待，一种积极的人生态度。整个画满淫浸着导演的热忱和理想…
车，是向前的载体；车，是动力的投射；一个未来的念想。
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Dodes'ka-den (1970) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban IMDb Skybridge
どですかでん
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Yoshitaka Zushi / Kin Sugai …
other title: どですかでん / Dodeskaden - O Caminho da Vida …
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.