Masakazu Kuwayama
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: August 16, 1922
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 04, 1983
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Kwaidan
Overview: Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-06
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The Insect Woman
Overview: A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-16
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Dissolution Rites
Overview: Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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Warm Current
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-29
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Dotanba
Overview: Dotanba - Last Minute
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-10
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Shiosai
Overview: Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue's father forbids her to see Shinji. But when the boy saves the passengers on a boat owned by Hatsue's father, his luck in love begins to change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-24
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Sigh
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-11-20
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A Portrait of Shunkin
Overview: Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Horny Working Girl: From 5 to 9
Overview: A woman named Chieko Kuwano is hired as an assistant manager at a large corporate office in Japan. She’s smart, sexy, and willing to do almost anything for her sex-starved new boss but, since he’s married, his deviant behavior makes her uncomfortable. Fed up with the boss and his perverted ways, the ladies in the building band together to enact their own special kind of revenge… that is, after they have a lesbian three-way slumber party, of course!
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-03-12
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Ballad of Orin
Overview: A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-11-19
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East China Sea
Overview: Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-05
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Two Hearts in the Rain
Overview: Love story of a working-class boy and girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-27
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Juvenile Wife
Overview: A newlywed wife suffers the consequences for her husband’s actions when he cheats a customer at his credit company out of a large sum of money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-26
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Uno Kôichirô no uwaki nikki
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-10-04
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幽霊列車
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-01-14
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Dodes'ka-den
Overview: This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-31
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A Bold Life
Overview: Depicts the checkered story of a businessman working for a toy company in financial trouble, who overcomes hardships to win a major victory.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-22
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A Trap
Overview: When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-28
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The Flag, Class A, Grade 4.
Overview: When teacher Kimura is assigned to Yuko’s Class A, 4th Grade, the children are very happy. But they are surprised to hear from her that she is expecting a baby in October. The children have learned many things. They have been brought closer together among themselves and they have gained a closer relationship with their parents. Above all, they have learned about some of the important things in life as they advance toward the still unknown realm of adulthood.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-14
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Yumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell
Overview: Utae and Aiko attend an all-girl private school where the devoutly religious principal seems to be raping some of the students, including Utae.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-20
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The Longest Tunnel
Overview: After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-16
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The Skies of Haruo
Overview: 1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-19
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Youth - Part II
Overview: Isamu, a star athlete in high school, becomes a race cyclist. He wins his debut races, but soon his opponents see through his lack of strategy and beat him easily. Isamu's maths teacher, a race cycling freak, says he knows the solution to Isamu's problem. But will Isamu listen to him?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-02-10
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Yakyukyo no uta
Overview: Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-19
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All My Children
Overview: School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near the end of WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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A Story Written with Water
Overview: Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-23
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Case of the Disjointed Murder
Overview: In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-14
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Escape from Japan
Overview: As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a robbery.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-03
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The Betrayers Out!
Overview: Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-15
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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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Sweet Revenge
Overview: Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-17
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Murderer!
Overview: A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to none.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-16
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A Violent School Revolution
Overview: A Violent School Revolution
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-07
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Port Arthur
Overview: Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-02
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Mitsuryōzuma: oku no uzuki
Overview: In the sweltering heat a wife searches for men to satisfy her insatiable lust. But someone is watching… and learning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-11
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We Sell It Because It Sells
Overview: Young bartender operates secret sex club as a profitable side business.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-09-27
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Attack at Daylight
Overview: A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-08
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Waga seishun no eleven
Overview: Soccer movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-21
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The Irresponsible Fool
Overview: Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his hometown is exceptionally stronger than anybody's, he is trying everything he can to somehow help the inhabitants of the island which are going through a recession. He saddles himself with a debt to bring a cheap band onto the island and tries to market the underwater sightseeing ship on the island without regards for the Marine Act.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-29
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My Destiny
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-30
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Harry and His Geisha Girls
Overview: Mr. Harry, who suffers from a "peanut sized" penis complex, comes to Japan to undergo a genital transplant operation, the first of its kind in the world. The operation is a success but Harry soon is involved into a shady plot related to his organ donor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-06-03
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Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses
Overview: A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-13
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Carmen from Kawachi
Overview: Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-07
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Fumiko's Diary
Overview: As she describes the lives of her parents, who run a tofu store and try to follow their convictions without thinking of themselves, Fumiko realizes that a family based on true trust between parents and children is the only place where a wonderful human being can be formed in a society undergoing drastic changes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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