Yoshishige Yoshida — Director (24)
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Welcome to São Paulo (2004) IMDb TMDB
Bem-Vindo a São Paulo
director: 阿莫斯·吉泰 / Mika Kaurismäki … actor: 卡埃塔诺·维洛索
other title: Bem-Vindo a São Paulo / 欢迎来到圣保罗
All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the largest city of the Southern Hemisphere, with an incessant dynamics of cultural mixtures, with immigrants of all the world and migrants of all parts of Brazil. The gathering of these peculiarities are seen through the 13 film directors's sensibilities and their segments.
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ＢＩＧ－１物語 王貞治 (1977) Douban
director: 吉田喜重 actor: 王貞治 / 長嶋茂雄 …
総指揮 ................　 正力亨
プロデューサー ................　 水町仁一 前田博 坂巻昇 白浜汎城 三堀篤
監督 ................　 吉田喜重
構成 ................　 吉田喜重
撮影 ................　 読売映画社
音楽 ................　 一柳慧
編集 ................　 浦岡敬一
ナレーター ................　 竹脇無我
出演 ................　 王貞治 長嶋茂雄 川上哲治 荒川博元
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18 Roughs (1963) Douban
嵐を呼ぶ十八人
director: 吉田喜重 actor: 早川保 / 香山美子 …
other title: 风暴时代 / 嵐を呼ぶ十八人 …
日本の高度成長下の底辺で働く社外工の青年たちの姿を、吉田喜重が従来の労働者映画への批判をこめて描いた作品。瀬戸内海に面したK市の造船所の下請けで働く社外工の島崎は、タコ師（労働者の手配師）が集めてきた新入りの社外工18人の僚監になる。彼らはいずれも札つきの連中ばかりで、花札バクチをやる奴、ケンカをする奴と、島崎はことごとく手を焼く。夏季闘争のシーズンがやってくると、組合員でない社外工には稼ぎ時だ。懐の暖かくなった島崎と18人は夏祭りに出かけるが、仲間の一人が島崎の恋人を暴行する。そして……。
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Joen (1967) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
情炎
director: 吉田喜重 actor: 冈田茉莉子 / 南美江 …
other title: 情炎 / The Affair …
As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds herself in an unhappy, loveless marriage and begins to understand her mother’s actions.
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Farewell to the Summer Light (1968) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
さらば夏の光
★ 6.7 (6 ratings) director: 吉田喜重 actor: 冈田茉莉子 / 横内正 …
other title: 再见吧，夏天的太阳 / さらば夏の光 …
A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves.
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Confessions Among Actresses (1971) IMDb TMDB Douban
告白的女優論
★ 5.5 (6 ratings) director: 吉田喜重 actor: 浅丘ルリ子 / 赤座美代子 …
other title: 女优的告白 / 告白的女優論 …
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them has experienced a traumatic event which contributes to their particular enjoyment of becoming someone else in dramatic roles.
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A Human Promise (1986) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
人間の約束
director: 吉田喜重 actor: 三国连太郎 / 村濑幸子 …
other title: 人的约定 / 人間の約束 …
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.
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Heroic Purgatory (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
煉獄エロイカ
★ 7.4 (11 ratings) director: 吉田喜重 actor: 冈田茉莉子 / 鴉田貝造 …
other title: 연옥 에로이카 / 煉獄エロイカ …
Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. Through this disruption, Rikiya suddenly starts remembering his youth as a revolutionary.
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Blood Is Dry (1960) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
血は渇いてる
★ 6.3 (7 ratings) director: 吉田喜重 actor: 佐田启二
other title: 血的饥渴 / 血は渇いてる …
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, however, he is no longer a desperate man pointing a gun to his head, but a potential leader who wishes to take advantage of his failed suicide.
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The Impasse (1967) IMDb TMDB Douban
炎と女
director: 吉田喜重 actor: 冈田茉莉子
other title: 炎与女 / 炎と女 …
Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by artificial insemination.
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Wuthering Heights (1988) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
嵐が丘
★ 7.4 (10 ratings) director: 吉田喜重 actor: 松田优作 / 田中裕子 …
other title: 嵐が丘 / 폭풍의 언덕 …
Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffers the fate of any women born near the Sacred Mountain: she must leave the Mountain and serve as a priestess.