Kamatari Fujiwara — Actor (31)
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I Am a Cat (1936) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
吾輩は猫である
director: Kajirō Yamamoto actor: Musei Tokugawa / Sadao Maruyama …
other title: 吾輩は猫である
1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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Five Men in a Circus (1935) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
サーカス五人組
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Heihachirō Ōkawa / Hiroshi Uruki …
other title: Cinq types au cirque / サーカス五人組
The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the two daughters of the aging and irascible ringmaster-circus owner. The high points are the sound (and score) and cinematography featuring a lot of vertiginous panning (appropriate - as high wire trapeze artists are also an important element in the film). A fascinating side-light on 30s Japan.
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Invisible Man (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
透明人間
director: Motoyoshi Oda actor: Seizaburō Kawazu / Miki Sanjō …
other title: Invisible Avenger / 透明人間 …
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
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Mickey One (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mickey One
director: Arthur Penn actor: Warren Beatty / Alexandra Stewart …
other title: Acosado / Mickey one
A former comic is on the run from the mob.
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Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935) [Movie]
妻よ薔薇のやうに
director: 成濑巳喜男 actor: 千叶早智子 / 丸山定夫 …
other title: 妻よ薔薇のやうに / 愿妻如蔷薇
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Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935) [Movie] WikiData Douban IMDb
妻よ薔薇のやうに
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Sachiko Chiba / Yuriko Hanabusa …
other title: Frau, sei wie eine Rose! / Ma femme, sois comme une rose …
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.
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Hideko the Bus Conductress (1941) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban
秀子の車掌さん
director: 成濑巳喜男 actor: 高峰秀子 / 藤原釜足 …
other title: 售票员秀子 / 秀子の車掌さん …
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake.
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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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An Inn at Osaka (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
大阪の宿
director: Heinosuke Gosho actor: Shūji Sano / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Une auberge à Osaka / 大阪の宿
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
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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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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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Dodes'ka-den (1970) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban IMDb
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.
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Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
御用牙
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Shintarō Katsu / Yukiji Asaoka …
other title: Hanzo the Razor – Sword of Justice / Hanzo The Razor 1 : L'épée de la justice …
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his superior officer's mistress, whom he suspects of having ties with a reputed criminal on the loose.
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Samurai Saga (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
或る剣豪の生涯
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: Samurai saga / 或る剣豪の生涯 …
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
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Chûshingura (1962) [Movie] TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Matsumoto Hakuō I / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: 47 Samurai / 47 Ronin …
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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Stakeout (1958) [Movie] TMDB
張込み
director: Yoshitaro Nomura actor: Minoru Ōki / Takahiro Tamura …
other title: 張込み / Le Guet-apens …
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
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Three Outlaw Samurai (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
三匹の侍
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Tetsuro Tamba / Isamu Nagato …
other title: Tre samurai fuorilegge / Trois Samouraïs hors-la-loi …
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
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The Lower Depths (1957) [Movie] TMDB
どん底
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Isuzu Yamada …
other title: I bassifondi / どん底 …
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.