Jūkichi Uno — Actor (23)
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Conquest (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
悪党
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Kyôko Kishida …
other title: Conquête / A Scoundrel …
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to send her husband into battle.
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Tsukiyo no kasa (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
月夜の傘
director: Seiji Hisamatsu actor: Kinuyo Tanaka / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: 月夜の傘
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two people come together, they will talk about selling kimonos, if three people come together, they will discuss food shopping, and when four people come together, there will be laughter. Focusing on four housewives who gather at the edge of the well, it depicts the daily life of each household.
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Heat Wave Island (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
かげろう
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Jūzō Itami …
other title: かげろう
Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution, and murder in which many poor farmers had found themselves trapped after World War II.
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Miniature (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
縮図
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Sumiko Hidaka …
other title: Epítome / 縮図 …
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
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Ditch (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
どぶ
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Jūkichi Uno …
other title: La zanja / どぶ …
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
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A Chain of Islands (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
日本列島
director: Kei Kumai actor: Jūkichi Uno / Izumi Ashikawa …
other title: L'Archipel du Japon / 日本列島
When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncovers a black market scheme involving counterfeit money, murder, and conspiracy.
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Ghost Story of Youth (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
青春怪談
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Izumi Ashikawa / Mie Kitahara …
other title: 青春怪談
A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist and childhood friend. A woman named Tomi Funakoshi appears in front of the two, who are thinking of getting married someday.
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A Hole of My Own Making (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
自分の穴の中で
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Yumeji Tsukioka / Mie Kitahara …
other title: Chacun dans sa coquille / 自分の穴の中で
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings.
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The Angry Street (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
怒りの街
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Jūkichi Uno / Yasumi Hara …
other title: La Rue en colère / 怒りの街
University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Sudo becomes gradually involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sister Masako. In this world of bad boys and girls, Masako is the pillar of strength and moral virtue who finally enables Mori to straighten out.
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The Baby Carriage (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
乳母車
director: Tomotaka Tasaka actor: Izumi Ashikawa / Yūjirō Ishihara …
other title: 乳母車
Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to being regarded as an outcast, the heroine sets about to spiritually legitimize the girl.
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The Sands of Kurobe (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
黒部の太陽
director: Kei Kumai actor: Toshirō Mifune / Yūjirō Ishihara …
other title: Batalha no Abismo / Le Soleil de Kurobe …
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.