Chisako Hara — Actor (18)
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Dupe (1965)
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Hideo Sekigawa actor: Tatsuo Umemiya / Mako Midori …
other title: かも
A man who hunts for women and sells them to bars and cabarets. This film depicts the lives of men and women who breathe the dark side of the city and live with a mysterious strength amidst vice. The fourth film in the Night Youth series by the duo Umemiya Tatsuo and Midori Mako.
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The Lost Alibi (1960)
黒い画集　あるサラリーマンの証言 IMDb TMDB
Hiromichi Horikawa actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Chisako Hara …
other title: 黒い画集　あるサラリーマンの証言
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lover, he runs into a neighbor who is later accused of murder. Questioned by police about the neighbor, and blackmailed by his lover's neighbor, the salaryman's lies lead him on a path to destruction.
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Bonds of Love (1969)
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Takashi Tsuboshima actor: Mari Sono / Makoto Fujita …
other title: 愛のきずな
Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but tires of their authority over his life. A chance encounter with Yukiko Hirai one rainy night brings a new romance into Ryohei's life, and he and Yukiko fall deeply in love. Yukiko, however, reveals that she has a violent husband in prison - with only a week left until his release. Ryohei, desperate to maintain his social standing, brings Yukiko to the mountains in Nagano and sets in motion an unthinkable, tragic chain of events.
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Our Wasteland (1969)
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Masanobu Deme actor: Toshio Kurosawa / Wakako Sakai …
other title: 俺たちの荒野
Tetsuya, a worker at a US Air Base who moonlights as a bartender with his bar hostess roommate, dreams to move to the United States one day. Meanwhile, his best friend Jun wants to build a home on some local wasteland. Yet the introduction of Yuki, who they both fall in love with, begins to tear their friendship apart.
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Lanterns on Blue Waters (1983)
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Akio Jissoji actor: Chishū Ryū / Haruko Katō …
other title: 波の盆
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.
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It Was a Faint Dream (1974)
あさき夢みし IMDb TMDB
Akio Jissoji actor: Janet Hatta / Shin Kishida …
other title: La vie d'une courtisane / あさき夢みし
Set in 13th century Kyoto, where the Imperial court is under control of the clergy. Shijo was a peasant girl sold to a powerful daima as a concubine. Bored by her life in seclusion she starts an affair with State Councillor and the brother of a retired Emperor. Realising that she is only a plaything of the court, she becomes a nun and wanders the country.
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The Approach of Autumn (1960)
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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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23 Steps to Bed (1962)
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Eizō Sugawa actor: Reiko Dan / Keizō Kawasaki …
other title: ある大阪の女
An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who stole money from his firm to repay his son's debt.
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A Man in Red (1961)
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Ishirō Honda actor: Makoto Satō / Akira Kubo …
other title: 真紅の男 / A Man In Red
Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza running a dope ring. Battling gangsters all the way, Takashi searches for his former girlfriend, now a drug addict.