Eijirō Tōno — Actor (49)
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple (1964) [Movie] TMDB
宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決斗
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Wakaba Irie …
other title: 宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決斗 / Seul contre tous à Ichijoji
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a treacherous clan in an arranged duel. 73 against one. Boastful Kojiro watches, secure in the knowledge that only he is a worthy opponent.
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
続宮本武蔵　一乗寺の決闘
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Koji Tsuruta …
other title: Samurai 2 - Duello al tempio Ichijoji / Duel à Ichijôji …
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers. While Otsu waits, Akemi also seeks him, expressing her desires directly. Meanwhile, Takezo is observed by Sasaki Kojiro, a brilliant young fighter, confident he can dethrone Takezo. After leaving Kyoto in triumph, Takezo declares his love for Otsu, but in a way that dishonors her and shames him. Once again, he leaves alone.
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Death of a Tea Master (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
千利休 本覺坊遺文
director: Kei Kumai actor: Eiji Okuda / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: Morte di un maestro del tè / 千利休 本覺坊遺文 …
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
続・男はつらいよ
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho …
other title: Maman chérie / 続・男はつらいよ …
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
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A Story from Echigo (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
越後つついし親不知
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Yoshiko Sakuma / Shoichi Ozawa …
other title: 越後つついし親不知 / Story of Echigo
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home to find his wife changed and suspects that she has been unfaithful.
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Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990) [Movie] TMDB
あげまん
director: Jūzō Itami actor: Nobuko Miyamoto / Masahiko Tsugawa …
other title: あげまん / La femme porte-bonheur …
The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships with the man she loves and the men who employ her, it satirizes corruption and the influence of money in Japanese politics.
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (1963) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
武士道残酷物語
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Ineko Arima …
other title: Bushido / Bushido - Schwur der Gehorsamkeit …
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
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Good Morning (1959) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
お早よう
director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Keiji Sada / Yoshiko Kuga …
other title: Buon giorno / Bom Dia …
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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.