Noboru Mitani — Actor (19)
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Path of the Beast (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB
少女娼婦 けものみち
director: Tatsumi Kumashiro actor: Ayako Yoshimura / Minako Mizushima …
other title: 소녀창부 짐승의 길 / 少女娼婦 けものみち …
17 year old Saki lives in a run-down shack with her mom, who survives by pushing a food cart from dawn to dusk. Saki has dropped out of school, and when she's not helping her mother selling noodles in the streets, she's playing flesh-games with boyfriend Sotoo. In her spare time, the girl also entertains a truck driver named Ataru. She believes her promiscuity is a trait inherited from her mom. Determined to improve her lot in life, Saki decides to stop seeing the two guys.
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Elephant Song (1994) WikiData IMDb TMDB
エレファントソング
director: Go Riju actor: Miyuki Matsuda / Susumu Terajima …
other title: エレファントソング / La Chanson de l'éléphant
Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dead. Kanako and her boy enlist the help of a friendly florist with a small truck, steal the corpse, and head for the mountains.
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Too Much (1987) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Too Much
director: Éric Rochat actor: Bridgette Andersen / Masato Fukazama …
other title: Roboter mit Herz / ロボフレンド
When Suzie and her parents take a visit to Japan her father's business partner, an inventor called Tetsuro decides to make Suzie a robot. The robot's name is 'Too Much' (or TM for short) and he and Suzie become the best of friends. But when the day comes for Suzie to return home she finds she's not allowed to take TM with her, so they run away together. However, they must watch out for a rival inventor of Tetsuro's is looking for them so that he can examine TM's programming. Will TM and Suzie manage to escape from his clutches and prove that love conquers all?
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The Kôsuke Kindaichi Series 4: The Foggy Mountain Lodge (1985) IMDb Douban
金田一耕助シリーズ 霧の山荘
director: 山口和彦 actor: 古谷一行 / 冈田茉莉子 …
other title: 金田一耕助シリーズ 霧の山荘 / 金田一耕助系列：迷雾山庄 …
《雾的山庄》是古谷一行版金田一耕助系列剧的第四部，由著名女演员冈田茉莉子担任女主角，讲述金田一耕助来到旧日的大明星红叶照子的别墅里，解决二十年前一桩杀人案的故事。
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ANGEL GUTS: RED PORNO (1981) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
天使のはらわた 赤い淫画
★ 6.5 (8 ratings) director: Toshiharu Ikeda actor: Jun Izumi / Masahiko Abe …
other title: 天使のはらわた 赤い淫画 / 天使的胆量之红色淫画 …
Nami is a department store worker who agrees to stand in for a friend in a magazine photo shoot, which turns out to be for an S&M magazine. When the photos are published, she is sacked and her lover abandons her…
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Street Mobster (1972) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
現代やくざ 人斬り与太
director: 深作欣二 actor: 菅原文太 / 安藤升 …
other title: 现代黑社会：杀手与太 / 現代やくざ 人斬り与太 …
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.
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のぞき (1983) Douban
director: 武田一成 actor: 井上麻衣 / よしのまこと …
ボーイフレンドとの関係を清算して、故郷の狭山に戻った桃子。ところが家では両親がクサイ芝居に没頭。どうやら“シバイのカラオケ”なるテープの販売で一儲けを企んでいるらしい。一見、夫婦仲がよさそうな彼らだが、夫の孝三は娘と同じ年頃の愛人・令子と、妻の美江は若いつばめ・良治と、ホテルでシコシコ。それぞれ年下のエキスで自分の欲求を満足させていた。そんなある日、博多の叔父さんの紹介という触れ込みで和夫と和子の若夫婦が転がり込んできた。夫婦とはいえ、窓を開け放してSEXに励む彼らに美江はショックを隠せない。しかも和子と桃子は甘美なレズの世界へ。そこへ今度は、令子が孝三を訪ねてやってきた。アッチの方面に敏感な彼女は、和夫と桃子が関係を持つのではと予測。窓に近づき、ふたりの初合体を目撃してしまう。ひとり取り残された感のある美江だったが、彼女にも大事件が勃発。良治が桃子のお見合い相手として現れたのだ。しかもこの若いふたりが意気投合したものだから、家の中はさらに性臭が立ちこめて…。
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The Woman with Red Hair (1979) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
赫い髪の女
★ 6.0 (5 ratings) director: 神代辰巳 actor: 宫下顺子 / 石桥莲司 …
other title: 红发女郎 / 赫い髪の女 …
Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.
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The Geisha House (1999) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
おもちゃ
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: 宫本真希 / Sumiko Fuji …
other title: 艺妓院的凉子 / おもちゃ …
Set in a Kyoto geisha house during the post-WWII era, the young Omocha begins her rigorous apprenticeship within the traditional community of geiko and maiko. She must navigate complex internal rivalries and a strict social hierarchy while the house struggles to maintain its customs. As modern society shifts around them, the residents face the increasing pressure of Japan's changing cultural identity.
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Song of the Horse (1971) IMDb TMDB Douban
馬の詩
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: 三谷升 / 川濑裕之
other title: 马之诗 / 馬の詩 …
Akira Kurosawa’s only television work—a lyrical documentary that follows a thoroughbred from birth and training to the Japan Derby—framed by a grandfather’s narration to his grandson about the fading bond between people and horses.
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Winter Days (2003)
冬の日
★ 7.3 (12 ratings) director: 尤里·诺尔施泰因 / 川本喜八郎 … actor: 柏木隆太 / 岸田今日子 …
other title: 冬日 / 冬の日 …
Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).
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Glassy Ocean (1998) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
クジラの跳躍
★ 8.3 (34 ratings) director: 田村茂 actor: たむらしげる / 永瀬正敏 …
other title: 鲸的鱼跃 / クジラの跳躍 …
On what apparently is a parallel world, time flows in a much slower pace than normal. The ocean remains on a solid state of matter as the eccentric individuals who inhabit this land casually wander over it.
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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
軍旗はためく下に
★ 8.5 (11 ratings) director: 深作欣二 actor: 丹波哲郎 / 左幸子 …
other title: 군기는 똥구덩이 아래에 / 軍旗はためく下に …
A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.
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A Un (1989) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
あ･うん
★ 7.5 (8 ratings) director: 降旗康男 actor: 高仓健 / 板东英二 …
other title: 情义知多少 / あ･うん …
Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.
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.The Last Dance (1993) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
大病人
★ 7.7 (12 ratings) director: Jūzō Itami actor: Rentaro Mikuni / 加藤昌彦 …
other title: 大病人 / 大病人之大现场 …
A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. Though his family, friends, and doctor try to keep the secret of his terminal cancer from him, Buhei gradually comes to realize the truth of his condition, leading him on a journey of despair, anger, and – ultimately – acceptance.