Eijirō Tōno — Actor (49)
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A Woman in the Typhoon Area (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
颱風圏の女
director: Hideo Ōba actor: Setsuko Hara / Jun Usami …
other title: 颱風圏の女
Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and assaulting their next incoming supply ship; but at the station they are told that a serious typhoon is on the way, so the ship will be delayed.
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Black River (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
黒い河
director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Fumio Watanabe / Ineko Arima …
other title: La Rivière noire / Río Negro …
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.
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An Innocent Witch (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
恐山の女
director: Heinosuke Gosho actor: Jitsuko Yoshimura / Keizō Kawasaki …
other title: 恐山の女
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions.
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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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The Eleventh Hour (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
どたんば
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Takashi Shimura / Shinjirō Ehara …
other title: どたんば / The Eleventh Hour 1957
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
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Devil's Gold (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
魔の黄金
director: Senkichi Taniguchi actor: Masayuki Mori / Jūkichi Uno …
other title: 魔の黄金
The protagonist descends from the mountains with a huge amount of panned gold dust. Upon learning of his wealth, all sorts of people, driven by greed and a desire to get their hands on his money, immediately begin to gravitate toward him.
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Apostasy (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
破戒
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Ryō Ikebe / Yōko Katsuragi …
other title: Serment rompu / Apostasía …
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
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The Beast Shall Die (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
野獣死すべし
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Hiroshi Koizumi …
other title: 野獣死すべし
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
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The Orphan Brother (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
安寿と厨子王丸
director: Taiji Yabushita / Yugo Serikawa actor: Yoshiko Sakuma / Isuzu Yamada …
other title: Robin e i 2 moschettieri e ½ / Robin og hans tapre venner …
After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mother dies, they are sold to Sansho the Bailiff, a cruel man who subjects them to hideous torments. While Anju falls into a lake and is transformed into a swan, Zushio escapes and after being adopted to a nobleman grows to a young man. He will then fight to defeat the evil Dayu and free all the slaves.
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Undercurrent (1956) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb
夜の河
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Fujiko Yamamoto / Ken Uehara …
other title: Night River / Rivière de nuit …
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
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The Great White Tower (1966) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
白い巨塔
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Jirō Tamiya / Eijirō Tōno …
other title: 白い巨塔
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
古都
director: Noboru Nakamura actor: Shima Iwashita / Seiji Miyaguchi …
other title: Koto / 古都 …
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
Tora! Tora! Tora!
director: Toshio Masuda / Kinji Fukasaku … actor: Martin Balsam / Sō Yamamura …
other title: Tora ! Tora ! Tora !
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
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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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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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Silence Has No Wings (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
とべない沈黙
director: Kazuo Kuroki actor: Mariko Kaga / Hiroyuki Nagato …
other title: Le Silence sans ailes / El silencio no tiene alas …
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
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Twilight Saloon (1955) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
たそがれ酒場
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Isamu Kosugi / Hiroshi Ono …
other title: たそがれ酒場
Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in an experimental style, weaving in a variety of music in this ambitious ensemble drama.
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Zatoichi's Cane Sword (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市鉄火旅
director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda actor: Shintarō Katsu / Shiho Fujimura …
other title: Zatôichi's Cane Sword / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 15 : La Canne-épée …
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local gangsters attempt to kill him, and the adventure begins. It turns out a blacksmith named Senzo examines Zatoichi's cane sword, and discovers it to be forged by his old mentor. Senzo discovers the sword is at the end of its usefulness and will break when it is used next.
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Pale Flower (1964) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
乾いた花
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Mariko Kaga …
other title: Fiore secco / Fleur pâle …
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.