Eitarō Ozawa — Actor (113)
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The Great White Tower (1966)
白い巨塔
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Jirō Tamiya / Eijirō Tōno …
other title: 白い巨塔
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
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The Return of Godzilla (1984)
ゴジラ
director: Koji Yakusho actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Ken Tanaka …
other title: Il ritorno di Godzilla / Godzilla - Die Rückkehr des Monsters …
After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the story to light are suppressed by the Japanese government amid growing political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, who are both willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.
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The Crucified Lovers (1954)
近松物語
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Kazuo Hasegawa / Kyōko Kagawa …
other title: Gli amanti crocifissi / Os Amantes Crucificados …
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.
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The Inugami Family (1976) IMDb
犬神家の一族
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Koji Ishizaka / Yoko Shimada …
other title: 犬神家の一族 / The Inugamis …
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather (1982) IMDb TMDB
鬼龍院花子の生涯
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Masako Natsume …
other title: 鬼龍院花子の生涯 / Onimasa: Um Padrinho Japonês …
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance.
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The Ceremony (1971)
儀式
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Kenzō Kawarasaki / Atsuko Kaku …
other title: La cerimonia / Die Zeremonie …
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
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Zatoichi Challenged (1967) WikiData IMDb TMDB
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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The Sun's Burial (1960) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
太陽の墓場
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Masahiko Tsugawa / Kayoko Honoo …
other title: Il cimitero del sole / 太陽の墓場 …
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss (1976)
新仁義なき戦い 組長最後の日
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Chieko Matsubara …
other title: 新仁義なき戦い 組長最後の日 / Nouveau combat sans code d'honneur 3 : les Derniers Jours du boss …
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.
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The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958) WikiData IMDb TMDB
忠臣蔵
director: Kunio Watanabe actor: Kazuo Hasegawa / Yataro Kurokawa …
other title: La Vengeance des loyaux serviteurs / Chûshingura …
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman (1968) IMDb TMDB
眠狂四郎女地獄
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Takahiro Tamura …
other title: 眠狂四郎女地獄 / Nemuri Kyoshiro 10 Hell is a Woman
Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is the textbook example of a bad idea - especially when the collateral damage starts to tick him off.
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Brave Red Flower of the North (1970) IMDb TMDB
日本女侠伝 真赤な度胸花
director: Yasuo Furuhata actor: Sumiko Fuji / Ken Takakura …
other title: 日本女侠伝 真赤な度胸花
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20th Century starring two of the biggest names in Yakuza film history, Fuji Junko and Takakura Ken. Since the death of death of her father, Yuki who has traveled from her home in the southernmost part of Japan must fight corrupt local officials seeking to fill her late father's post. As her life is in danger a mysterious rifleman, played by Takakura Ken watches from the shadows. Can she finish the work her dear departed father started in an untamed land?
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The Wolves (1955) IMDb TMDB
狼
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Sanae Takasugi …
other title: 狼 / Loup …
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.