Eijirō Tōno — Actor (99)
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The Navy (1963)
海軍 IMDb TMDB
Shinji Murayama actor: Kinya Kitaoji / Sonny Chiba …
other title: 海軍
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his best friend Shinji to join him. As it turns out, however, Takao's poor health prevents him from entering the navy while his friend is chosen instead. As time goes by, Takao becomes a painter and changes his mind about the meaningfulness of war and fighting, while his friend goes the opposite path. Meanwhile Takao's sister falls in love with Shinji.
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The Third Dead Angle (1959)
第三の死角 TMDB
Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Ryōji Hayama / Hiroyuki Nagato …
other title: 第三の死角
Yoshikawa and Kaji are alumni - Yoshikawa leads a life loyal to his company Toho Corporation, whilst Kaji works in the underground world for Aoyama, a fixer trying to buy Toho out. One day, Yoshikawa is ordered to take a look into the information leakage which had resulted in a serious fall of the company stock price. Following his order, Yoshikawa reunites with Kaji but their relationship gets complicated through the presence of Akiko, the daughter of Kubo, chairman of Toho Corporation. There is an obvious financial conspiracy and several men are killed - Who is the true mastermind behind all the plots?
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Fight of the Gamblers (1963)
男の紋章　風雲双つ竜 IMDb TMDB
Akinori Matsuo actor: Hideki Takahashi / Masako Izumi …
other title: 男の紋章　風雲双つ竜
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.
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Sword for Hire (1952)
戦国無頼 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: Sengoku burai / 戦国無頼 …
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.
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Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
銀座化粧 WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Mikio Naruse actor: Kinuyo Tanaka / Ranko Hanai …
other title: Le Fard de Ginza / Camareras de Ginza …
A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a smart young boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to others' needs, she'll end by taking part herself in one of the many disguises of Ginza.
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A Woman in the Typhoon Area (1948)
颱風圏の女 IMDb TMDB
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)
黒い河 WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
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)
恐山の女 WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
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)
日本誕生 WikiData IMDb TMDB
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)
どたんば WikiData IMDb TMDB
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)
魔の黄金 IMDb TMDB
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)
破戒
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)
野獣死すべし IMDb TMDB
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)
安寿と厨子王丸 WikiData IMDb TMDB
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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The Great White Tower (1966)
白い巨塔
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.