Hōsei Komatsu — Actor (97)
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Diary of Yunbogi (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ユンボギの日記
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Hōsei Komatsu
other title: Diario di Yumbogi / Le Journal de Yunbogi …
Constructed as an experimental montage of still photographs, "Diary of Yunbogi" reflects on poverty and historical responsibility through the imagined diary of a six-year-old Korean boy living in a South Korean slum. Drawing on photographs taken during Ōshima’s 1965 research trip to Korea, the film juxtaposes the child’s daily struggle to care for his siblings with the director’s own reflections on Japanese–Korean relations.
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
裸の十九才
director: 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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Beast Alley (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
けものみち
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Junko Ikeuchi / Keiju Kobayashi …
other title: けものみち
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his political schemes. As she descends further into a downward spiral of moral decay, Tamiko realizes that the freedom she sought is merely a new form of entrapment.
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Captive's Island (1966) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
処刑の島
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Shogen Nitta / Rentarō Mikuni …
other title: La isla de la tortura / 処刑の島 …
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman.
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969) [Movie]
新宿泥棒日記
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Tadanori Yokoo / Rie Yokoyama …
other title: Diario di un ladro di Shinjuko / Diário de um Ladrão …
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
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Pleasures of the Flesh (1965) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
悦楽
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Katsuo Nakamura / Mariko Kaga …
other title: Il godimento / Os Prazeres da Carne …
After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.
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Kidnapping Blues (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
キッドナップ・ブルース
director: Shinpei Asai actor: Tamori / Mai Yamato …
other title: キッドナップ・ブルース
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
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The Catch (1961) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
飼育
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Akiko Koyama …
other title: L'addomesticamento / Le Piège …
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'.
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The Barren Zone (1976) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
不毛地帯
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Tomo'o Nagai …
other title: The Corporation / 不毛地帯
Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria. He is offered a position in the expansive Kinki Corporation, but rival corporations are competing for a government contract to produce fighter planes.
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The Man Without a Map (1968) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
燃えつきた地図
director: Hiroshi Teshigahara actor: Shintarō Katsu / Etsuko Ichihara …
other title: Le Plan déchiqueté / 燃えつきた地図
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
脱獄広島殺人囚
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: 脱獄広島殺人囚
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
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Silence Has No Wings (1966) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData
とべない沈黙
director: Kazuo Kuroki actor: Mariko Kaga / Hiroyuki Nagato …
other title: Le Silence sans ailes / El silencio no tiene alas …
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
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The Ceremony (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
儀式
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Kenzō Kawarasaki / Atsuko Kaku …
other title: La cerimonia / Die Zeremonie …
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
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Double Suicide (1969) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
心中天網島
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Kichiemon Nakamura II / Shima Iwashita …
other title: Doppio Suicidio ad Amijima / Double suicide à Amijima …
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
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Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
座頭市果し状
director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda actor: Shintarō Katsu / Kyōsuke Machida …
other title: Zatôichi and the Fugitives / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 18 : Le Défi …
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
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The Sun's Burial (1960) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
太陽の墓場
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Masahiko Tsugawa / Kayoko Honoo …
other title: Il cimitero del sole / 太陽の墓場 …
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.
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Village of Dreams (1996) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
絵の中のぼくの村
director: 东阳一 actor: 原田美枝子 / 松山庆吾 …
other title: 梦幻村庄 / 梦之村 …
年届半百的征三拜访双胞弟征彦的画坊，两人为一本画册，遍访记忆中梦幻的村庄，将时光倒叙至童年生活──1948年，自小有画画天份的□生兄弟，因母亲兼老师的教学态度，使村内同学对他俩轻蔑及冷嘲热讽，于是二人独自游玩，与大自然为伴，以抒发心中情绪；母亲的教育，把孩子对人、事、物的好奇，变成自然的成长……
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Band of Ninja (1967) [Movie] TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
忍者武芸帳
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Rokkō Toura / Kei Satō …
other title: 忍者武芸帳 / Carnets secrets des ninjas …
A young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
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Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992) [Movie] Skybridge IMDb TMDB
ミンボーの女
director: Jūzō Itami actor: Nobuko Miyamoto / Yasuo Daichi …
other title: La donna contro il racket dell'estorsione / ミンボーの女 …
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
無理心中 日本の夏
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Keiko Sakurai / Kei Satō …
other title: 無理心中 日本の夏 / Die Nacht des Mörders …
A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.