Kōjirō Kusanagi — Actor (22)
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The Killing Game (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
殺人遊戯
director: Tōru Murakawa actor: Yūsaku Matsuda / Yutaka Nakajima …
other title: 殺人遊戯
The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes back he bumps into two women that he has spared five years ago. Two rival yakuza bosses hire Narumi to kill the other. Will Narumi's sense of chivalry entrap him again?
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A Killer Without a Grave (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
紅の拳銃
director: Yōichi Ushihara actor: Keiichirō Akagi / Reiko Sasamori …
other title: 紅の拳銃 / Kurenai no kenjū
Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that he knows he won't be able to afford, a former marksman-turned-bad, Ishioka approaches him. Ishioka is looking for an unaffiliated hit-man who is willing to handle some business. Nakata is just the right man for the job.
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Woman from the Sea (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
海底から来た女
director: Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Hisako Tsukuba / Tamio Kawachi …
other title: Woman from the sea / 海底から来た女
While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a nearby village think she is a monster, the female of a shark killed many years before, responsible for many disappearances.
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Disciples of Hippocrates (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ヒポクラテスたち
director: Kazuki Ōmori actor: Masato Furuoya / Ran Ito …
other title: ヒポクラテスたち
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder if he's really cut out to be a doctor.
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The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf (1979) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
蘇える金狼
director: Tōru Murakawa actor: Yūsaku Matsuda / Jun Fubuki …
other title: 蘇える金狼 / Resurrection of Golden Wolf
A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day.
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Nowhere Man (1991) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
無能の人
director: 竹中直人 actor: 竹中直人 / 风吹淳 …
other title: 无能的人 / 無能の人 …
穷困潦倒的无名漫画家助川助三（竹中直人 饰）时运不济，做过许多生意但到头来一事无成。儿子帮忙看店，妻子则靠在社区内派发传单讨生活。某天助三从一石头爱好者的专门杂志上看到，即使门外汉也可参加石头拍卖的消息，于是突击完成手头的活计，奔往山中寻找石头。
然而石头并未给助三带来预期的财富，反而加重其债务负担，夫妻关系也变得紧张起来。无奈之下，助三只能重新拿起画笔，继续辛苦讨着营生。这样的生活何时是个尽头？
日本漫才兼喜剧明星竹中直人导演处女作，改编自拓植义春的同名漫画，著名粉红导演神代辰巳亦在其中出演角色。
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W的悲剧 (1984) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
Wの悲劇
director: 泽井信一郎 actor: 药师丸博子 / 三田佳子 …
other title: Wの悲劇
20岁的三田静香（药师丸博子 饰）是一名热爱表演的纯真女孩，她经常到公园的无人露天剧场练习演技。为了参演剧团的新戏《W的悲剧》，静香参加了主角的选拔考试，最终同期学员菊地香（高木美保 饰）获得出演主角摩子的机会，而静香只获得了只有一句台词的女佣这个角色。
《W的悲剧》巡演大获好评，却在大阪遭遇危机。剧团当家花旦羽鸟翔（三田佳子 饰）的恩客堂原（仲谷升 饰）病发，死在羽鸟的房中。为遮掩丑闻，羽鸟以摩子这个角色作交换，要求静香在媒体面前承认自己和堂原的不伦关系。为了梦寐以求的角色，静香接受了羽鸟的请求……
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The Beast to Die (1980) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
野獣死すべし
director: Tōru Murakawa actor: Yūsaku Matsuda / Asami Kobayashi …
other title: 野獣死すべし
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the author of the killings "walks like a dead man".
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Solntse (2005) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB
Солнце
director: 亚历山大·索科洛夫 actor: 尾形一成 / Robert Dawson …
other title: 太阳 / 苏古诺夫之太阳 …
A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.
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Zatoichi Challenged (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市血煙り街道
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Shintarō Katsu / Jūshirō Konoe …
other title: La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 17 : Route sanglante / 座頭市血煙り街道 …
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.
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A Colt Is My Passport (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
拳銃は俺のパスポート
director: Takashi Nomura actor: Jō Shishido / Chitose Kobayashi …
other title: 拳銃は俺のパスポート / A colt is my passport …
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
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Shadow Hunters (1972) [Movie] TMDB
影狩り
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 影狩り
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.
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Intimidation (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ある脅迫
director: Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Jun Hamamura / Kō Nishimura …
other title: ある脅迫
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
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Cruel Gun Story (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
拳銃残酷物語
director: Takumi Furukawa actor: Joe Shishido / Chieko Matsubara …
other title: 拳銃残酷物語
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?
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Madadayo (1993) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban
まあだだよ
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Tatsuo Matsumura / Kyōko Kagawa …
other title: Madadayo - Il compleanno / まあだだよ …
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.