Shizue Kawarazaki
Also Known As: Shizue Yamagishi, 山岸静江, 山岸しづ江, Сидзуэ Каварадзаки, Сидзуэ Каварасаки
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: January 25, 1908
Deathday: January 01, 2002
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn
Overview: Story of a bandit king part 2.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-02-20
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The 47 Ronin
Overview: In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-12-08
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Double Suicide
Overview: Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-24
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The Ceremony
Overview: Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-18
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Banzuiin Chōbei
Overview: A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-05-29
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The Stand in Hakone
Overview: A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-03-14
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The Cannery Boat
Overview: Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-10
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Priest of Darkness
Overview: A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-04-30
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The Village Tattooed Man
Overview: A tragic period film about a gangster who comes out of prison and finds it hard to find a place again in society. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf
Overview: Story of a bandit king.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-02-11
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Hiroshima
Overview: The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-07
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Humanity and Paper Balloons
Overview: In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father's former master will hire him while a disgraced hairdresser attempts to regain his pride by kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy pawnbroker, who is set to be married.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-08-25
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Still I Live On
Overview: About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical troupe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-07-04
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The Beauty and the Dragon
Overview: Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self-righteous priest.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-03
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Ōma no tsuji
Overview: Set in the late Edo period of the assassination of Dairo Ii, the sword and emotional romance that depicts the murderous world. The turmoil of the end of the Edo period is depicted through the nameless Ichii people, centering on the main character of the Hatamoto collapse that is drunk by the waves of the end of the Edo period.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-06-01
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Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf
Overview: Story of a bandit king.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-02-11
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