Nobuko Otowa — Actor (54)
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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 IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
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 IMDb 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 TMDB IMDb
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 IMDb TMDB
お遊さま
director: 沟口健二 actor: 田中绢代 / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Oyû-sama / 阿游小姐 …
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
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Rise Against the Sword (1966) [Movie] IMDb 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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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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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II (1958) [Movie] IMDb 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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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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Kuroneko (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge
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 Island Closest to Heaven (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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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Onibaba (1964) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Skybridge ReviewDB Douban WikiData
鬼婆
7.8 (5 ratings) 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.