Junzaburō Ban — Actor (18)
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A Color Print of Edo (1939)
錦絵江戸姿 旗本と街奴 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kazuo Mori actor: Utaemon Ichikawa / Junzaburō Ban …
other title: 錦絵江戸姿 旗本と街奴 / Nishikie Edosugata Hatamoto to Machiyakko …
The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Kazuo Mori. It is a cheerful period drama, sprinkled with comical scenes and tells the story of a loyal and handsome Edo period servant who fights to help his older brother marry the woman he loves. The star of this film, Utaemon Ichikawa, gained enormous popularity for his portrayal of a cheerful and chivalrous man.
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惩役十八年：假释 (1967)
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降旗康男 actor: 安藤升 / 若山富三郎 …
other title: 懲役十八年 仮出獄
デビュー直後の降旗康男と極道から転身した安藤昇が組むハードボイルドもの。ベトナム戦争中の世界情勢も踏まえ、強力俳優陣が各々に魅力を放つ注目作。二年の刑期を残し仮出獄を許された郡司（安藤）は、弟分で金庫破りの木島（伊丹）の話に乗り、息子想いだが余命少ない大宮（若山）も加え、国際紛争で儲ける武器商人が密輸入した金塊を強奪する計画を成功させたかに思われたが、そのバックに控える国際ギャング団との死闘に呑み込まれる。
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro (1977)
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森崎东 actor: 田中邦卫 / 赤木春惠 …
other title: 黑木太郎的爱和冒险 / 黒木太郎の愛と冒険 …
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai’s heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.
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The Phoenix (1979)
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市川昆 / 中野昭庆 actor: The Snake / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: 火之鸟 / 火の鳥 …
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and elderly advisor Sumuke, hire Yumihiko of Matsuro to hunt the phoenix so that Queen Himiko, sister of Susano-O can have eteranal life.
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Secret Turkish Bath (1968)
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Shinji Murayama actor: 伴淳三郎 / 谷隼人 …
other title: トルコ風呂
生まれながらにして異常なセックス・テクニックを身につけた、フーテン卵子が大都会新宿に迷い込み、数々の売春の仕組みに翻弄されながら逞しく成長していく姿を描く。乱交パーティー、レズビアン、売春トルコ、不能症の男等々、刺激的な画面構成で描くセックス映画。
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Dodesukaden (1970)
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★ 7.2 74 ratings
黑泽明 actor: 头师佳孝 / 菅井琴 …
other title: 电车狂 / どですかでん …
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.
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Proof of the Man (1977)
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★ 7.9 48 ratings
Junya Satō actor: Mariko Okada / Yūsaku Matsuda …
other title: 人证 / 人間の証明 …
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
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Eijanaika (1981)
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★ 7.6 8 ratings
今村昌平 actor: 桃井薰 / 泉谷茂 …
other title: 乱世浮生 / ええじゃないか …
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.
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Jo-oh-bachi (1978)
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★ 7.2 13 ratings
市川昆 actor: Koji Ishizaka / Mieko Takamine …
other title: 女王蜂 / Queen Bee …
To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all.