Daisuke Katō — Actor (67)
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Little Peach (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
杏っ子
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Kyōko Kagawa / So Yamamura …
other title: Anzukko / 杏っ子
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.
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Summer Clouds (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
鰯雲
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Chikage Awashima / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: Nuvole estive / Nuages d'été …
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
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The Approach of Autumn (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
秋立ちぬ
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Nobuko Otowa / Yōsuke Natsuki …
other title: À l'approche de l'automne / Autumn Has Already Started …
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper.
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Late Chrysanthemums (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
晩菊
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Haruko Sugimura / Sadako Sawamura …
other title: Derniers chrysanthèmes / Crisantemos tardíos …
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days coldly collecting debts. Even her best friends, fellow Geisha Tomi, Nobu, and Tamae, are now indebted to her. For all of them, the glamour of their young lives has passed; Tomi and Tamae have disappointing children. Kin has two former lovers who still pursue her; one she wants to see, and the other she doesn't. But even the one she remembers fondly, when he shows up, proves less than satisfactory.
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Untamed Woman (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
あらくれ
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Ken Uehara …
other title: Une femme indomptable / Una mujer indomable …
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
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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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Assignment Cloud (1966) [Movie] TMDB
陸軍中野学校　雲一号指令
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Eiko Muramatsu …
other title: 陸軍中野学校　雲一号指令
A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected but, finally, it seems that an Army captain and his geisha friend might lead them to the ring.
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Assignment Dragon No. 3 (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
陸軍中野学校　竜三号指令
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Michiyo Yasuda …
other title: 陸軍中野学校　竜三号指令
In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously assassinated, however, when his car was blown up. The General Staff Headquarters in Japan, sends Lieutenant Shiina, a graduate of the famed Nakano School of Spies inaugurated by Colonel Kusanagi, to investigate the matter. Arriving in Shanghai, he disguises himself as a Chinese coolie and sets out to watch for developments, the only clue being a silver dollar found beside what was left of the victim.
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Secret Assignment (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
陸軍中野学校　密命
director: Akira Inoue actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Miwa Takada …
other title: 陸軍中野学校　密命
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.
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The School of Spies (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
陸軍中野学校
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Mayumi Ogawa …
other title: L’école militaire de Nakano / La escuela de espías de Nakano …
Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English army to pass the final exam. However, he reaches the crossroad when his fiancee Yukiko turns out to be a spy of the enemy.
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Moment of Terror (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
ひき逃げ
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: Délit de fuite / Delito de fuga …
When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victim's mother changes her identity and infiltrates the couple's home to work as their maid, plotting to murder their similarly-aged son.
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Snow Country (1957) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
雪国
director: Shirō Toyoda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Keiko Kishi …
other title: Pays de la neige / 雪国 …
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?
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Sanshiro Sugata (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
姿三四郎
director: Seiichiro Uchikawa actor: Yūzō Kayama / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: Sugata Sanshiro / 姿三四郎 …
Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.
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The Thin Line (1966) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
女の中にいる他人
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: Lo straniero dentro una donna / L'Étranger à l'intérieur d'une femme …
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.