Eijirō Tōno — Actor (49)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.