Hisano Yamaoka — Actor (25)
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Koto—The Lake of Tears (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
湖の琴
director: Tomotaka Tasaka actor: Yoshiko Sakuma / Katsuo Nakamura …
other title: Le Lac des larmes / 湖の琴 …
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings, only to find her peaceful life turned upside down when a master musician takes personal interest in her.
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Heat Wave Island (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
かげろう
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Jūzō Itami …
other title: かげろう
Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution, and murder in which many poor farmers had found themselves trapped after World War II.
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Wild Geese (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
雁
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Ayako Wakao / Gaku Yamamoto …
other title: 雁
Otama, daughter of a poor candy vendor, becomes the mistress of a man whom she believes to be a widower and owner of a prosperous dry goods store. The man is in fact married with children, and is a despised loan shark who takes money from the poor without qualms. Totally enraptured with Otama, this usurer establishes her and her father in separate houses and generously gives them gifts including silk taken as interest from Oshige, a poor cloth dealer who does business with the sewing teacher, Otama's neighbor. Otama's satisfaction with her situation gradually crumbles as she discovers the truth about her benefactor.
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Phoenix (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
火の鳥
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Yumeji Tsukioka / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: 火の鳥
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attracting a crowded audience.
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The House of the Sleeping Virgins (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
眠れる美女
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Takahiro Tamura / Yoshiko Kayama …
other title: Nemureru bijo / 眠れる美女
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.
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Blood-Red Water in the Channel (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
海峡、血に染めて
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Kōji Wada / Ryōji Hayama …
other title: 海峡、血に染めて
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten. He became the new "teen star." And Suzuki: "the director to watch."
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A Geisha's Diary (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
女は二度生まれる
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Ayako Wakao / Jun Fujimaki …
other title: Les femmes naissent deux fois / Onna wa nido umareru …
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.
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Lost in the Wilderness (1986) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
植村直己物語
director: Junya Satō actor: Toshiyuki Nishida / Chieko Baisho …
other title: Verschollen im Schnee / 植村直己物語 …
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1970, Uemura also accomplished several "firsts". He was the first man to reach the North Pole solo, climb Denali solo, and float down the Amazon river solo. In the film, Uemura returns to Tokyo after a stint in Siorapaluk in Northern Greenland. In Tokyo, he reconnects with an old friend and, over coffee, shares his life story - from his days as a college dropout to his successful expedition to the top of Everest.
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Crossroad (1956) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
死の十字路
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: 死の十字路
Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt to perfect his crime, he drives to a remote quarry to bury his wife’s body, but along the way, he finds another dead body in the back of his car! Given no choice, Ise dumps both bodies. Meanwhile, Yoshie begins her search for her missing brother, Yoshihiko. After surprising twists and turns, Ise faces his fate.