Jun Hamamura — Actor (84)
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Double Suicide (1969) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
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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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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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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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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An Actor's Revenge (1963) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
雪之丞変化
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Kazuo Hasegawa / Fujiko Yamamoto …
other title: La rivincita di Yuki-no-jo / La Vengeance d'un acteur …
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
眠狂四郎女妖剣
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Michiko Ai …
other title: Nemuri Kyoshiro 4 La Ballade de Kyoshiro Nemuri / 眠狂四郎女妖剣 …
A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthless smugglers also want him dead is the least of his problems!
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Gonza the Spearman (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
鑓の権三
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Hiromi Go / Shōhei Hino …
other title: 鑓の権三 / Gonza le lancier …
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.
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Sleeping Man (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
眠る男
director: Kōhei Oguri actor: Ahn Sung-ki / Koji Yakusho …
other title: 眠る男 / L'Homme qui dort
Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.
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Preparation for the Festival (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
祭りの準備
director: Kazuo Kuroki actor: Jun Etoh / Keiko Takeshita …
other title: 祭りの準備 / Preparation for the festival
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
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Samurai from Nowhere (1964) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
道場破り
director: Seiichirô Uchikawa actor: Isamu Nagato / Shima Iwashita …
other title: 道場破り / Dojo Challengers, Samurai from Nowhere
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. Into the mix comes Oba Gunjuro (Tetsurō Tamba), a mysterious ronin who will do anything for money. This leads to a fitting climax as the forces of hate and love converge while the couple attempt to break through the border!
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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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Red Lion (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
赤毛
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Toshirō Mifune / Shima Iwashita …
other title: 赤毛 / Akage – Red Lion …
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.
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Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB
八つ墓村
director: Yoshitaro Nomura actor: Kenichi Hagiwara / Mayumi Ogawa …
other title: 八つ墓村 / Village of the Eight Tombs …
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo
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Lonely Heart (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
幸福
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Toshiyuki Nagashima / Rie Nakahara …
other title: 幸福
A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.
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The Wolves (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
子連れ狼 死に風に向う乳母車
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Gō Katō …
other title: Lobo Solitário 3: Contra Os Ventos da Morte / Okami - Japango …
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
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Samurai Spy (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
異聞猿飛佐助
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Kōji Takahashi / Shintarō Ishihara …
other title: 異聞猿飛佐助 / La guerre des Espions …
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sasuke is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Tatewaki, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. By tale’s end, no one is who they seemed to be, and the truth is far more personal than anyone suspected. Director Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, filled with clan intrigue, ninja spies, and multiple double crosses, marks a bold stylistic departure from swordplay film convention.
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The Man with a Shotgun (1961) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
散弾銃の男
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Hideaki Nitani / Izumi Ashikawa …
other title: L'Homme à la Mitraillette / 散弾銃の男 …
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.
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Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
妖怪百物語
director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda actor: Jun Fujimaki / Jun Hamamura …
other title: 100 Monsters / La Malédiction des Yokai …
A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back. But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 100 Ghost Stories ceremony without the closing cleansing ritual, opening the door for the Yokai Monsters to punish the wicked.