Kappei Matsumoto — Actor (19)
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Floating Weeds Diary (1955)
浮草日記 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Keiko Tsushima / Kenji Sugawara …
other title: 浮草日記
A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins, however, a miners' strike is announced, creating an uproar. In addition, the players find they have been cheated out of their profits by a crooked impresario.
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Invasion of the Neptune Men (1961)
宇宙快速船 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Koji Ota actor: 千叶真一 / 江原真二郎 …
other title: 宇宙快速船 / Uchû Kaisokusen …
Astronomer Shinichi Tachibana has a secret identity as the superhero "Iron Sharp" and is well beloved by children. When they are attacked by a group of metallic aliens, Iron Sharp drives the aliens away. The resourceful Tachibana helps develop an electric barrier to block the aliens from coming to the Earth. After several losses by the aliens, they announce that they will invade the Earth, throwing the world into a state of panic.
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The Brick Factory Girl (1946)
煉瓦女工 TMDB
千葉泰樹 actor: 赤木蘭子 / Etchan …
other title: 煉瓦女工 / La Fille de l'usine de briques
This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl’s family.
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Victory of Women (1946)
女性の勝利 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
沟口健二 actor: 田中绢代 / 桑野通子 …
other title: 女性的胜利 / 女性の勝利 …
A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who suffocated her child in her grief after her husband died penniless following an industrial accident. The prosecutor is Hiroko's sister's husband Kono, who also sent Hiroko's fiance, Yamaoka, to jail for his liberal views during the war. Yamaoka has just been freed, but is seriously ill from his time in prison.
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Dancing Girls of Izu (1954)
伊豆の踊子 Douban
野村芳太郎 actor: 美空云雀 / 石浜朗 …
other title: 伊豆舞女 / 伊豆の踊子
昭和初年的某个秋天，青年学生水原（石濱朗 饰）游山玩水，调养身心。在伊豆汤岛的旅途中，他邂逅了一名梳着旧式发髻的舞女阿薰（美空ひばり 饰），她恬美清新的模样在水原的心中激起淡淡的涟漪。许是命运的安排，水原又在接下来的日子里多次和舞女及其伙伴相逢，加上他有意识地接近，学生最终和舞女及其伙伴们熟捻起来。在此后的日子里，他和这群江湖艺人一同旅行，品味一段清纯爱恋的甜美，以及残酷生活现实的无可奈何。旅途中会结束，一份情感该如何安置…… 本片根据日本作家川端康成的同名短篇小说改编，是该小说第2次被搬上银幕。
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Rhapsody in August (1991)
八月の狂詩曲 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 6.9 59 ratings
黑泽明 actor: 村濑幸子 / 吉冈秀隆 …
other title: 8월의 광시곡 / 八月の狂詩曲 …
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
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Stray Dog (1949)
野良犬 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 8.2 140 ratings
黑泽明 actor: 三船敏郎 / 志村乔 …
other title: 들개 / 野良犬 …
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.