29 results found for: Dokuritsu Gurentai
Dokuritsu Gurentai
Japanese Movie - 1959
In 1945 a war correspondent named Araki appears in a town. He becomes interested in the death of an apprentice officer named Okubo and visits his final resting place, the 90th Independent Post. (Source: Japanese =…
Yukimura Izumi
Yukimura Izumi (real name Asahina Tomoko) is a popular Japanese singer, actress and painter. She made her singing debut in 1953 and became one of the three most popular female singers in the early postwar Japan, along with Eri Chiemi and Misora Hibari.
Tsuruta Koji
Ono Eiichi, better known by his stage name Tsuruta Koji, was a Japanese actor and singer. He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing. His daughter, Tsuruta Sayaka, is an actress. Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Tsuruta was raised in Osaka by his grandmother, following his…
Nakakita Chieko
Nakakita Chieko (1926-2005) was a Japanese actress. A character actress who never quite got her due, despite roles in numerous high-profile movies from the 1940s onward. Although a vigorous participant in Toho's labor disputes of that early period, like so many others she never really left, in part…
Kayama Yuzo
Kayama Yuzo is the son of one of one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1930s, 'Ken Uehara'. The handsome and likeable Yuzo Kayama became one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1960s. And just as Uehara embodied the idea of a modern Japanese wartime hero, Kayama became symbolic of postwar Japanese…
Ebara Tatsuyoshi
Ehara Tatsuyoshi is a Japanese actor and businessman from Tokyo. He is a graduate of Keio University. In 1948, he appeared as a child actor in "Kane no Naruoka". After that, he joined Toho and worked as a youth star.
Mifune Toshiro
Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, from 1948 to 1965, in works such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo. He also portrayed Musashi Miyamoto in Hiroshi Inagaki's…
Asato Mari
Mari Asato is a Japanese film director born in Okinawa on March 14, 1976. Primarily known for the film Ju-On: Black Ghost (2009) as part of The Grudge film instalments. Other films include the politically undertoned Samurai Chicks (Dokuritsu Shôjo Gurentai) (2004), the cinematic rendition Boy From…
Okamoto Kihachi
Okamoto belonged to what one colleague called "the generation where most of them got killed": the leagues of university graduates who were drafted into and sacrificed to the last years of Japan's war in the South Pacific. Okamoto was drafted during the very worst of it, in 1943, but almost alone among…
Boy's Choir
Japanese Movie - 20006.8
A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy, Yasuo, convinces him to join the choir.
Independence of Japan
Japanese Movie - 20207.0
Immediately after the end of World War II, in Japan occupied by GHQ, there were two men who were on par with GHQ. The names are Shigeru Yoshida and Jiro Shirasu. In the late fall of the year of the end of the war,…
GFP Bunny
Japanese Movie - 20132.0
The film is a “metafiction” inspired by a true incident in which a 16-year-old girl who poisoned her mother with thallium, earning the nickname “Thallium Girl”. Actress Yuka Kuramochi plays the girl as she…
Tiger Cave
Japanese Movie - 2023
The story delves into the mental landscape of a lonely young man in modern times. Called "social trash" and "a nuisance" by those around him, the man is unable to find his place in society. One day, he is invited by…
