79 results found for: Yajikita Douchuuki
Shimura Takashi
Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan. His debut as actor was the film Akanishi Kakita (Capricious Young Man, 1936) and cast in the Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy (1936). In company with Toshiro Mifune, Shimura is the actor most closely associated with Akira Kurosawa…
New Yajikita Journey
Japanese Movie - 1952
~~Adapted from a Cartoon with the same name, and also published in Weekly Asahi in form of a comic book. The movie is very loosely based on both.
Three for the Road
Japanese Movie - 20076.0
A courtesan, Okino, is tired of her life in Edo, and is starting to be outshone by younger women, so she tricks a man called Yaji, into helping her escape the brothel where she is bound by contract to stay. Okino claims…
Samurai Vagabond
Japanese Movie - 19605.0
On New Year's Day 1716, Munenaga of Owari and Yoshinao of Kii were both named as candidates for the title of 8th Shogun. The wise and just Munenaga is plunged into a dispute with Tokugawa Yoshinao that will lead to…
Hirayama Hideyuki
Hirayama has sustained parallel careers as a proficient craftsman of big-budget commercial entertainments and as an artist realizing small-scale, offbeat, and imaginative projects. After a long freelance apprenticeship to such directors as Jūzō Itami and Kichitarō Negishi, he made his debut, a comic…
Kimura Kinka
His real name is Kinnosuke. He was born in Tokyo Iwato-cho (now Ushigome of Shinjuku-ku, Iwato-cho) and grew up in Shintomicho (now Chuo-ku Shintomi ). His father was the first member of the first Ichikawa Sandan troupe, and Kinnosuke also worked as a writer after serving as a child under the name of…
Travels of Hibari and Chiemi
Japanese Movie - 1962
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a drug deal taking place at their theater. (Source: Letterboxd)
