Kazuo Kasahara — Playwright (51)
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Samurai Vagabonds (1960) IMDb TMDB
殿さま弥次喜多
director: Tadashi Sawashima actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Katsuo Nakamura …
other title: 殿さま弥次喜多
On New Year's Day 1716, Munenaga of Owari and Yoshinao of Kii were both named as candidates for the title of 8th Shogun. The wise and just Munenaga is plunged into a dispute with Tokugawa Yoshinao that will lead to one of them ascending the throne. This is an exciting and informative film that brings the brilliant history of Japan to the surface in a new light.
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The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai (1986) IMDb TMDB
玄海つれづれ節
director: Masanobu Deme actor: Sayuri Yoshinaga / Aki Yashiro …
other title: 玄海つれづれ節
A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind numerous debts and his illegitimate child. Desperate to track down her missing husband, she travels to Kyushu in hopes of finding clues to his whereabouts and in the process discovers disturbing secrets about the man she loves.
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Three Yakuza (1965) WikiData IMDb TMDB
股旅　三人やくざ
director: Tadashi Sawashima actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: 股旅　三人やくざ
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. Part 1: A man is on the run after killing two Hasshu Officials to avenge his Boss. He must make a life or death decision as he is asked to protect a gang from attack. Part 2: A pair of gamblers chased out of a crooked game must fight not only their pursuers, but the ghosts of their pasts as well. Part 3: A wanderer who wants to live according to the Yakuza Code, but is not sure that he can do so when asked to save a town from an evil official.
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Fukuzawa Yukichi (1991) IMDb TMDB
福沢諭吉
director: Shinichiro Sawai actor: Kyôhei Shibata / Takaaki Enoki …
other title: 福沢諭吉
Fukuzawa Yukichi opens a school for samurai, who aim to learn Dutch language, most common for overseas trading. But when he was in Yokohama he learned that English language is one way more global one. His struggle against patriarchal mindset leads his school to become one of the oldest universities in Japan.
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Fate Deals the Card of Death (1971) IMDb TMDB
博奕打ち　いのち札
director: Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Koji Tsuruta / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: 博奕打ち　いのち札
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year later. However, Seijiro gets jailed for five years. Unable to find him, Shizue gets married to a yakuza boss who can help her family business.
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Father of the Kamikaze (1974) IMDb TMDB
あゝ決戦航空隊
director: Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Koji Tsuruta / Noboru Andō …
other title: Â kessen kôkûtai / あゝ決戦航空隊
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.