Yukio Ninagawa
Also Known As: にながわ ゆきお
Biography: Yukio Ninagawa was a Japanese theatre director and film actor, particularly known for his Japanese language productions of Shakespeare plays and Greek tragedies. He directed Hamlet differently eight times. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yukio Ninagawa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: October 15, 1935
Deathday: May 12, 2016
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Gender: Male
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The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
Overview: Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-20
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Dupe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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The Silk Road
Overview: In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. One student is Zhao Xingde, who becomes the favorite of his commander, Zhu Wangli. While sacking a fortress, Xingde discovers Tsurpia, princess of the Uighur. He hides her; they fall in love. When he's sent away to study Xixian, he leaves Tsurpia in Zhu's care, but returns to find her engaged to Li. Tragedy follows, and he and Zhu enter a pact to take revenge when Li arrives at Dun-Huang, the region's seat of learning and culture. Against overwhelming odds, they find a surprising way to leave a monument to their life and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-06-25
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Double Clutch
Overview: Hiromi Go plays a high school student who need's a role model in his life badly. He's raised by his older sister played by Keiko Matsuzaka who is a hostess at a night club. She meets a man who becomes her boy friend. He races in a off road car rally professionally. The same man becomes Go's role model and teaches him sophisticated car driving technique. One of the technique taught is 'double clutch' ( Thus the movie's title Double Kuracchi ) to make gear transition smoothly between shifts. Through a misfortunate accident Matsuzaka's character dies and Go is left to fend for his life. Hiromi Go was a big pop idol in Japan when this movie was created. Both Go and Matsuzaka still enjoys high celebrity status in Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-29
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Affair in the Snow
Overview: In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had platonic feelings.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-31
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Lost Lovers
Overview: A rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female performer is suddenly abducted, he and Takeru must take action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-05
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Twinkle
Overview: Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college student. The film is less a realistic exploration of gay life than a fairy tale of three young Japanese trying to construct an alternative to the sexual and familial roles given to them by a society turning increasingly emotionally barren.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-24
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疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜
Overview: 'The Ninagawa of the world', still ill. The 80-year-old's intense run to stay alive, even after falling ill!
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-02
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蜷川幸雄 傷だらけの鬼才
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-12-21
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蜷川幸雄2005 : ～疾走する70歳～
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-12-03
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蜷川幸雄×藤原竜也〜ハムレットへの軌跡
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-11
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The Inheritance
Overview: A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown, so a bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-16
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A Woman Who Warns of Death
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Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Tragedy of “W”
Overview: A young girl is striving for stardom. In order to get a lead role in a new production, she agrees to stand-in for a famous star whose rich patron died in her arms one night. The real-life drama gradually comes to mirror the story of the play being performed by her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-12-15
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Overview: 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.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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She and He
Overview: As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She finds new interests, new love, and a greater sense of her place in the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-18
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
Overview: An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-18
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Assassination
Overview: Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-04
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Silence Has No Wings
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-11
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Diner
Overview: A former murderer and genius chef along with a waitress come together with a group of fantastical assassins in a diner. A girl with a hollowness in her heart, who believes that she belongs nowhere, is thrust into a series of attacks where she must struggle to find her will to live.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-05
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A Cheerful Yakuza
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-02-14
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