Nobuko Otowa — Actor (28)
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Onibaba (1964) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB ReviewDB WikiData Douban
鬼婆
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Jitsuko Yoshimura …
other title: Onibaba - Le assassine / A Mulher Demónio …
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
1960s japan
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The Naked Island (1960) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
裸の島
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Taiji Tonoyama …
other title: L'isola nuda / A Ilha Nua …
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
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The Island Closest to Heaven (1984) [Movie] TMDB
天国にいちばん近い島
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Tomoyo Harada / Miyoko Akaza …
other title: 天国にいちばん近い島
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.
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Kuroneko (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
藪の中の黒猫
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Kichiemon Nakamura II / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: 藪の中の黒猫 / O Gato Preto do Túmulo …
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
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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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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II (1958) [Movie] TMDB
柳生武芸帳　双龍秘剣
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Koji Tsuruta / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: 柳生武芸帳　双龍秘剣 / Yagyu bugeicho - Ninjitsu …
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them. In Part II, the search for the scrolls continues.
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Red Lion (1969) [Movie] TMDB
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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Rise Against the Sword (1966) [Movie] TMDB
暴れ豪右衛門
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Makoto Satō …
other title: 暴れ豪右衛門 / Rise against the sword
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.
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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》。
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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.