Nobuko Otowa — Actor (54)
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Conquest (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
悪党
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Kyôko Kishida …
other title: Conquête / A Scoundrel …
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to send her husband into battle.
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Till Tomorrow Is (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
明日ある限り
director: Shirō Toyoda actor: Kyōko Kagawa / Shūji Sano …
other title: 明日ある限り
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attempted surgery and years of struggle, her condition proves permanent. Growing up, she faces stigma and danger but eventually finds hope and love with a fellow blind student.
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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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The Life of Chikuzan (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
竹山ひとり旅
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Ryūzō Hayashi / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: La vida de Chikuzan / 竹山ひとり旅 …
After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named Takahashi Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biographical drama chronicles his wanderings and his life, with a particular focus on his humble beginnings as a peasant on a remote and arid island.
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A Last Note (1995) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
午後の遺言状
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Haruko Sugimura / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Le Testament du soir / Nota de suicidio …
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past
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Miniature (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
縮図
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Sumiko Hidaka …
other title: Epítome / 縮図 …
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
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The Strange Tale of Oyuki (1992) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
濹東綺譚
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Yuki Sumida / Masahiko Tsugawa …
other title: Histoire singulière à l'est du fleuve / La extraña historia de Oyuki …
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous and smartly dressed, Nagai patiently wrote in his diary his thoughts during many years. A melancholy reflection on the passage of time and a brilliant interpretive exercise.
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Ditch (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
どぶ
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Jūkichi Uno …
other title: La zanja / どぶ …
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
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Women of Ginza (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
銀座の女
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Yukiko Todoroki / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: 銀座の女
At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life. The proprietress, Ikuyo, is a ridiculously good-natured woman who gives money to a poor but brilliant young man, Eisaku Yanoguchi, to attend college on the condition that he will take care of her in the future.
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The Tale of Genji (1951) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
源氏物語
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Kazuo Hasegawa / Denjirō Ōkōchi …
other title: Le roman de Genji / 源氏物語
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused.
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Room for Let (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
貸間あり
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Frankie Sakai / Chikage Awashima …
other title: 貸間あり
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.