Chiho Katsura — Playwright (12)
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Kenya Boy (1984) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
少年ケニヤ
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Tomoyo Harada / Eiko Masuyama …
other title: Jungle Boy, Kenia / Shounen Keniya …
An 11-year-old boy who goes to Africa with his father in 1941. Because he is Japanese, the father is detained by the British. The boy joins up with a beautiful native girl, and the adventure begins.
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She Cat (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
女猫
director: Shingo Yamashiro actor: Ai Saotome / Koichi Iwaki …
other title: Labbra bollenti / Meneko …
Dr. Cat Kagami was hoping to leave her torrid past behind, but a failed assassination attempt has now put her square in the crosshairs of a team of brutal killers. Now no one is safe, including her lesbian co-worker and a mysterious woman with a terrible secret that could bring down an entire Japanese company. Cat must take the law into her own hands and enact her own special kind of revenge!
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Queen Bee (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
女王蜂
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Koji Ishizaka / Keiko Kishi …
other title: 女王蜂
To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all.
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Fukuzawa Yukichi (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
福沢諭吉
director: Shinichiro Sawai actor: Kyôhei Shibata / Takaaki Enoki …
other title: 福沢諭吉
Fukuzawa Yukichi opens a school for samurai, who aim to learn Dutch language, most common for overseas trading. But when he was in Yokohama he learned that English language is one way more global one. His struggle against patriarchal mindset leads his school to become one of the oldest universities in Japan.
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Kamikaze, the Adventurer (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
冒険者カミカゼ
director: Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Hiroyuki Sanada …
other title: 冒険者カミカゼ
An ex-Olympic athlete and a student commit cash robbery. Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student, becomes inspired to steal money the school collected as “special fees” from parents wanting to assure their offspring’s’ acceptance into the hallowed institution. He forms an unbeatable alliance with an ex-employee and crime bosses to retrieve the ill-gotten money from the “wrong” hands.
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Red Target (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
薔薇の標的
director: Kiyoshi Nishimura actor: Yūzō Kayama / Chen Chen …
other title: 薔薇の標的
A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers the set-up behind the killing - that a laboratory is being set up by a Nazi organization to capture and train talented youth and that the photographer was about to expose it.