Keiko Awaji — Actor (10)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb Douban
女が階段を上る時
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Masayuki Mori
other title: Quando una donna sale le scale / Quando Uma Mulher Sobe as Escadas
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Stray Dog (1949) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
野良犬
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Takashi Shimura
other title: Cane randagio / Cão Danado
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
Illusion of Blood (1965) [Movie] TMDB
四谷怪談
director: Shirō Toyoda actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Mariko Okada
other title: 四谷怪談
The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
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.
Samurai Saga (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
或る剣豪の生涯
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.
Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn (1966) [Movie] TMDB
丹下左膳 飛燕居合斬り
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Keiko Awaji
other title: 丹下左膳 飛燕居合斬り / Samouraï sans honneur
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to his clan. But Tange Sazen has his own reasons for seeking the urn.
Inugami (2001) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
狗神
director: Masato Harada actor: Yuki Amami / Atsuro Watabe
other title: Inugami - Le divinità maligne / Inugami - Die Verfluchten
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family.
Temptation on Glamour Island (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
グラマ島の誘惑
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Hisaya Morishige / Frankie Sakai
other title: グラマ島の誘惑
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War II.
Black River (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
黒い河
director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Fumio Watanabe / Ineko Arima
other title: La Rivière noire / Río Negro
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.
The Other Woman (1961) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData
妻として女として
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Chikage Awashima
other title: Comme épouse et comme femme / Esposa y mujer
The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family frequents.