Jun Hamamura — Actor (52)
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The Burmese Harp (1956) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
ビルマの竪琴
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Shōji Yasui …
other title: L'arpa birmana / Freunde bis zum letzten …
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
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The Sun's Burial (1960) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
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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Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市の歌が聞える
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Shintarō Katsu / Shigeru Amachi …
other title: Zatôichi's Vengeance / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 13 : La Vengeance …
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.
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Double Suicide (1969) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
心中天網島
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Kichiemon Nakamura II / Shima Iwashita …
other title: Doppio Suicidio ad Amijima / Double suicide à Amijima …
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
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The Vampire Doll (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
幽霊屋敷の恐怖 血を吸う人形
director: Michio Yamamoto actor: Kayo Matsuo / Akira Nakao …
other title: A Noite do Vampiro / Legacy of Dracula …
A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history.
1970s horror japan monster monstermiru
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Fighting Elegy (1966) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
けんかえれじい
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Hideki Takahashi / Yūsuke Kawazu …
other title: Elegia della lotta / Elégie de la bagarre …
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
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The Makioka Sisters (1983) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
細雪
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Keiko Kishi / Yoshiko Sakuma …
other title: Les Quatre sœurs Makioka / Las hermanas Makioka …
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb
人間の條件　第３部望郷篇／第４部戦雲篇
director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: La Condizione Umana: Parte II – Cammino verso l'eternità / Guerra e Humanidade II: Estrada Para a Eternidade …
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
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Love Is in the Green Wind (1974) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
恋は緑の風の中
director: Miyoji Ieki actor: Yûsuke Satô / Mieko Harada …
other title: 恋は緑の風の中
A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his heartbreaking romance during the summer holidays with a young sprightly girl.
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Himiko (1974) [Movie] TMDB
卑弥呼
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Shima Iwashita / Masao Kusakari …
other title: 卑弥呼
The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.
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Japan's Longest Day (1967) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
日本のいちばん長い日
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Seiji Miyaguchi / Rokkō Toura …
other title: The Emperor and a General / Le jour le plus long du Japon …
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
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Demon Pond (1979) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
夜叉ヶ池
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Tamasaburō Bandō V / Gō Katō …
other title: L'Étang du démon / El estanque endemoniado …
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants, including lovers Akira and Yuri, in their hands.
1970s fantasy japan
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Afraid to Die (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
からっ風野郎
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Yukio Mishima / Ayako Wakao …
other title: Le gars des vents froids / からっ風野郎
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan. But their exit proves more difficult than planned when their rival clan steps in to exact revenge.
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The Catch (1961) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
飼育
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Akiko Koyama …
other title: L'addomesticamento / Le Piège …
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'.
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The Glamorous Ghost (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
散歩する霊柩車
director: Hajime Sato actor: Kō Nishimura / Masumi Harukawa …
other title: 散歩する霊柩車
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife, then embarks on a crusade to extort all the wealthy men whom she had affairs with.
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Conflagration (1958) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
炎上
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: Conflagrazione / Le Pavillon d'Or …
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.
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Sakura-tai Chiru (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
さくら隊散る
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Eitarō Ozawa / Koreya Senda …
other title: さくら隊散る
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.
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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.