Yoshishige Yoshida — Playwright (20)
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18 Roughs (1963)
嵐を呼ぶ十八人 Douban
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)
情炎 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
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)
さらば夏の光 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 6.7 6 ratings
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)
告白的女優論 IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 5.5 6 ratings
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)
人間の約束 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
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)
煉獄エロイカ WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.4 11 ratings
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)
血は渇いてる WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 6.3 7 ratings
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)
炎と女 IMDb TMDB Douban
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)
嵐が丘 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.4 10 ratings
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.
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Eros + Massacre (1970)
エロス+虐殺 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 6.6 11 ratings
吉田喜重 actor: 冈田茉莉子 / 细川俊之 …
other title: 情欲与虐杀 / エロス+虐殺 …
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers on two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.
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Rokudenashi (1960)
ろくでなし WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.0 9 ratings
吉田喜重 actor: 津川雅彦 / 安井昌二 …
other title: 一无是处 / ろくでなし …
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.