Nobuko Otowa — Actor (28)
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Immortal Love (1961) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
永遠の人
director: 木下惠介 actor: 高峰秀子 / 仲代达矢 …
other title: 永远的人 / 永遠の人 …
A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.
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Lost in the Wilderness (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
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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The Beauty and the Dragon (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
美女と怪龍
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Chiyonosuke Azuma / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: 美女と怪龍
​A powerful priest uses his magical abilities to imprison the rain gods within a waterfall, causing a devastating drought. The imperial court sends a princess to his remote mountain retreat to seduce him and break his spiritual concentration.
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The Three Treasures (1959) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
日本誕生
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Takashi Shimura …
other title: Os 3 Tesouros / 日本誕生 …
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.
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Hymn (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
讃歌
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Tokuko Watanabe …
other title: 讃歌 / Sanka
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings.
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
裸の十九才
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Daijirō Harada / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Vivir hoy, morir mañana / 裸の十九才 …
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman. As a boy Yamada, experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.
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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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Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
第五福竜丸
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Jūkichi Uno / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Dragón de la suerte nº 5 / 第五福竜丸
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.
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Edo Porn (1981) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
北斎漫画
director: 新藤兼人 actor: 绪形拳 / 田中裕子 …
other title: 北斋漫画 / 北斎漫画 …
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
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Floating Vessel (1957) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban
源氏物語　浮舟
director: 衣笠贞之助 actor: 长谷川一夫 / 山本富士子 …
other title: 源氏物語 浮舟 / 源氏物語　浮舟
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Drawn from parts of the famous Genji monogatari by Lady Murasaki.
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Children of Hiroshima (1952) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
原爆の子
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Osamu Takizawa …
other title: I bambini di Hiroshima / Crianças de Hiroshima …
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
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An Inn at Osaka (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
大阪の宿
director: Heinosuke Gosho actor: Shūji Sano / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Une auberge à Osaka / 大阪の宿
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
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The Last War (1961) [Movie] IMDb
世界大戦争
director: Shūe Matsubayashi actor: Frankie Sakai / Akira Takarada …
other title: Todesstrahlen aus dem Weltall / La Derniere Guerre de l'Apocalypse …
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
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Oshin (1983) [TV] TMDB
おしん
director: Sugako Hashida actor: Ayako Kobayashi / Yuko Tanaka …
other title: おしん
Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the life of Shin Tanokura during the Meiji period up to the early 1980s. Shin was called "Oshin", which is an archaic Japanese cognomen.
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The Ceremony (1971) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb NeoDB Douban
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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The Three Undelivered Letters (1979) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB
配達されない三通の手紙
director: 野村芳太郎 actor: Komaki Kurihara / Takao Kataoka …
other title: 配達されない三通の手紙 / 没有发出的三封信 …
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.
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The Iron Crown (1972) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
鉄輪
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Hideo Kanze …
other title: Kanawa / 鉄輪
A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.
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Miss Oyu (1951) [Movie] Douban NeoDB
お遊さま
director: 沟口健二 actor: 田中绢代 / 乙羽信子 …
other title: Oyû-sama / 阿游小姐 …
小曾部家的阿游小姐（田中绢代 饰）出嫁后曾拥有一段幸福的生活，但随着丈夫去世，她的生活变得平淡乏味。某日她陪伴妹妹阿静（乙羽信子 饰）约见相亲对象槙之助（堀雄二 饰），阴差阳错对方却将阿游当作阿静，两人一见倾心。温良贤淑的阿静为了姐姐的幸福甘愿退出，甚至为了避免周遭的风言风语情愿作槙之助的挂名妻子。
三人经常一同游玩，流言终于传至阿游的婆家，她因此被送回娘家。倍受世俗眼光困扰，阿游终于决定退出，改嫁酿酒师傅。阿静随后与深深爱恋着的槙之助完婚。似乎一切已归平静，生活的磨难却从未离去……
改编自日本著名小说家谷崎润一郎名作《芦刈》。