Keiko Niitaka
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Aomori, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: April 18, 1934
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Female
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Boxer
Overview: In the midst of a match, a successful boxer - Hayato, has had enough of the sport. He lets himself get knocked, quits boxing, leaving his wife and start living alone with his mangy dog. One day a young mediocre boxer knocks at the door and wants to be Hayato's apprentice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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Private Collections
Overview: Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-06-27
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Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Overview: A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-28
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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
Overview: An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-04-24
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Les chants de Maldoror
Overview: A “reading film” of delirious image and text, Les chants de Maldoror takes its title and inspiration from Comte de Lautréamont’s 1869 proto-Surrealist poetic novel which, for instance, describes beauty as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. In the novel’s six cantos, a young misanthrope indulges in depraved and destructive acts. Unexpected encounters abound, with turtles and birds joining Terayama’s regular cast of snails and dogs to wander over books and bare torsos. Feverish video processing posterizes, inverts and overlays images that are further colored by sound—pushing the limits of his literary adaptation. Terayama wrote that the only tombstone he wanted was his words, but, as Les chants de Maldoror demonstrates, words need not be confined to carved monuments or bound hardcopies.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-02-02
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The Trial
Overview: An experimental short featuring people and nails.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-14
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Smallpox Tale
Overview: The smallpox virus has created its own unique atmosphere in Terayama’s film where the skin of a bandaged adolescent and the surface of the filmic image are subjected to a bizarre ‘disturbance’ as snails cross the screen and nails are hammered into the skull of the ailing patient. Illness in this film is as much a psychic entity as a physical one and manifests itself in an array of theatrical tableaux from grotesque women rigorously brushing their teeth to a snooker game where the players in white face makeup behave like automata. A Tale of Smallpox uses a medical theme to chart the traumatic dream life of Terayama’s times, evincing deep-rooted concerns in the Japanese national psyche that hark back to the upheaval of Meiji modernisation and the devastation of World War Two.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Dai san no jôji
Overview: Pinku from 1965.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-01
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Grass Labyrinth
Overview: Akira is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually active adulthood, he wants to find the origins of the song. The young man ostensibly wanders into a time-warp in which aspects from his childhood and adulthood mix together. In this never-never land he comes across a beautiful woman/witch who is lost inside the labyrinth of her mansion, just as the young man is lost in the labyrinth of time — and on some levels, perhaps the labyrinth of his subconscious.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Love Awakening
Overview: A thirty-year-old lesbian virgin sleeps with a man for the first time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-07
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Farewell to the Ark
Overview: A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-08
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Perverse Relations
Overview: A doctor, gynecologist, discover the corpse of his wife. His nurse advises to him to declare her death a simple heart attack, to clear himself without the slightest doubt. He refuses and calls the police force there. The interrogation of the doctor, then other witnesses, slowly reveals the truth of her demise…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-01
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The Reading Machine
Overview: In this Borgesian satire on knowledge and technology, bibliophilic desire leads to the construction of a pedal-powered reading machine. Resembling a combination of gymnastic contraption, printing press and early cinematic apparatus, the machine’s purpose remains ambiguous. And like this machine, Terayama’s film connects his work in poetry, motion picture and graphic design by weaving together printed and projected, still and moving images.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-11
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Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Overview: In a Japanese colony, children overthrow their parental guardians and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are soon lost in a web of sexual deviation and violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-27
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Where is Tomorrow, Shuji Terayama
Overview: The documentary to find the "true Shuji Terayama".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-02
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New Torture Punishment History Torture
Overview: Three stories of torture, set in Japan's Sengoku, Kan'ei and Genroku eras.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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Fruits of Passion
Overview: A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience to him in a Chinese brothel. A poor boy sees her and falls in love with her. To get the money needed to sleep with her, he takes part in rebellious acts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-06-03
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Butterfly
Overview: A dreamlike portrayal of a hangover after a decadent party.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-05
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The Woman with Two Heads
Overview: As a family goes on with their day, the shadows on their walls lead a completely different life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-06-14
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The Lemmings
Overview: This second version of the play follows Wan and Tsu, two apprentice cooks who, as they eavesdrop on their neighbors one day, are shocked by the sudden disappearance of a wall separating them from the next flat. As they try to understand what happened and how to fix their wall, the line between reality and fiction begins to crumble, their endeavors continuously halted by weird and disrupting characters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Directions to Servants
Overview: A man claiming to be the heir of an estate in northern japan finds himself at the doors of his mansion, only to find it overrun by servants and maids playing pretend as master or mistress, while the real master is nowhere to be found. As he makes his way down the many rooms of the mansion and witnesses the staff's strange antics, he gradually loses his own role and sense of identity. In this subversive play performed by Tenjo Sajiki, the spectator is asked to question their own role as hierarchical structures are reversed and walls between character and actor, actor and audience gradually break down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Shintokumaru
Overview: Shuji Terayama and J.A.Seazer's phantasmagoric folk-psych-symph-prog-rock opera. Historical Tenjo Sajiki performance from 1978.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Wolves
Overview: After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it be before the bloodshed begins anew? Set in 1926 Japan, this serpentine crime thriller from director Hideo Gosha also stars Toshio Kurosawa and Isao Natsuyagi as Iwahashi's closest ally.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-30
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