Keizō Kawasaki — Actor (20)
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On This Earth (1957)
地上 IMDb TMDB
Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / Hitomi Nozoe …
other title: 地上
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
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23 Steps to Bed (1962)
ある大阪の女 IMDb TMDB
Eizō Sugawa actor: Reiko Dan / Keizō Kawasaki …
other title: ある大阪の女
An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who stole money from his firm to repay his son's debt.
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The Cast-Off (1959)
氾濫 IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Yasuzō Masumura actor: Shin Saburi / Ayako Wakao …
other title: 氾濫 / 泛滥 …
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
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Love and Greed (1964)
「女の小箱」より夫が見た WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Yasuzō Masumura actor: Jirō Tamiya / Ayako Wakao …
other title: 「女の小箱」より夫が見た / Otto ga mita 'Onna no kobako' yori …
Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's husband. As personal lives and professional careers intertwine and cross one another including a love triangle dangerously, the affair is taken up a notch following a murder.
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Buddha (1961)
釈迦 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kenji Misumi actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Shintarō Katsu …
other title: O Reino de Buda / 釈迦 …
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.
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A Woman's Testament (1960)
女経
Kon Ichikawa / Yasuzō Masumura … actor: Ayako Wakao / Hitomi Nozoe …
other title: 女経 / Jokyo …
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
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Sound in the Mist (1956)
霧の音 IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Hiroshi Shimizu actor: Ken Uehara / Michiyo Kogure …
other title: O Som do Nevoeiro / Le Chant de la brume …
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Kazuhiko's wife Kazuyo comes to see them and confronts the professor about his extramarital affair, and Tsuruko, an inevitable witness to the confrontation, leaves the professor the following morning. Over the next decade, whenever he visits the mountain cabin every autumn equinox, the memory of Tsuruko will forever haunt Kazuhiko...