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2. Sanmon yakusha (2000)
126 min | Drama, Romance
Film inspired by the life of Japanese actor Taiji Tonoyama, with whom Kaneto Shindo had worked on many occasions, with the help of archive images and fragments of the most famous films of ... See full summary »
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Keiko Oginome, Hideko Yoshida, Nobuko Otowa
Votes: 127
3. A Last Note (1995)
110 min | Drama
Yoko is a famous actress who goes to a mountain chalet for a few days rest. There, she learns a secret from her companion Toyoko.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Haruko Sugimura, Nobuko Otowa, Hideo Kanze, Kyôko Asagiri
Votes: 245
4. Sensitive Samurai (1992–1993)
45 min | Drama
the story is set at the beginning of the 18th century in feudal Japan.Having become embroiled in a feud in his home domain, a young swordsman named Matahachiro leaves for the city of Edo (... See full summary »
Stars: Hiroaki Murakami, Yôko Moriguchi, Toshi Shioya, Thunder Sugiyama
Votes: 21
5. The Strange Tale of Oyuki (1992)
116 min | Biography, Drama
The film tells the story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous ... See full summary »
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Masahiko Tsugawa, Yuki Sumida, Kazuyo Asari, Jun Hamamura
Votes: 179
6. Tsuribaka nisshi 5 (1992)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Tomio Kuriyama | Stars: Toshiyuki Nishida, Rentarô Mikuni, Eri Ishida, Nobuko Otowa
Votes: 24
7. Haha: Inochi yomigaeru hi (1992 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
Director: Masanobu Deme | Stars: Takanori Jinnai, Hideko Hara, Masumi Harukawa, Yôko Moriguchi
8. Asahina Shûhei misuterî 3: Tangoji satsujin jiken (1992 TV Movie)
109 min | Mystery
Director: Masanobu Deme | Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Yôko Asaji, Yôko Moriguchi, Nobuko Otowa
9. Donmai (1990)
110 min | Drama
Director: Seijirô Kôyama | Stars: Kaori Momoi, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Hajime Hana, Nobuko Otowa
10. Pachinko monogatari (1990)
95 min | Drama
Director: Osamu Tsuji | Stars: Masaaki Daimon, Eiichirô Funakoshi, Masato Furuoya, Mie
11. The Asami Mitsuhiko Mystery 7 (1990 TV Movie)
90 min | Mystery
Director: Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa | Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Etsushi Takahashi, Akiko Izumi, Nobuko Otowa
12. The Asami Mitsuhiko Mystery 8 (1990 TV Movie)
90 min | Mystery
Director: Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa | Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Etsushi Takahashi, Akiko Izumi, Nobuko Otowa
13. Dream Street (1989)
95 min | Drama
Director: Azuma Morisaki | Stars: Hisahiro Ogura, Kaho Minami, Yasuo Daichi, Yoshio Harada
Votes: 8
14. Ôinaru gen'ei (1989 TV Movie)
Director: Minoru Matsushima | Stars: Kyôko Kishida, Nobuko Otowa, Kayo Matsuo, Bunjaku Han
15. The Asami Mitsuhiko Mystery 6 (1989 TV Movie)
90 min | Mystery
Director: Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa | Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Etsushi Takahashi, Akiko Izumi, Nobuko Otowa
16. The Asami Mitsuhiko Mystery 5 (1989 TV Movie)
90 min | Mystery
Director: Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa | Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Etsushi Takahashi, Akiko Izumi, Nobuko Otowa
17. Sakura-tai Chiru (1988)
113 min | Documentary
On 6 August 1945, in the city of Hiroshima, a small itinerant troupe of actors led by Sadao Maruyama fell victim to an atomic bombing. Kaneto Shindo collects evidence of this tragedy and reconstructs the events of August 1945.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Shôji Furuta, Takako Miki, Yasuko Yagami, Jun Hamamura
Votes: 37
18. The Asami Mitsuhiko Mystery 4 (1988 TV Movie)
90 min | Mystery
Director: Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa | Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Etsushi Takahashi, Akiko Izumi, Nobuko Otowa
19. The Asami Mitsuhiko Mystery 3 (1988 TV Movie)
90 min | Mystery
Director: Katsuhiko Fujii | Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Etsushi Takahashi, Akiko Izumi, Nobuko Otowa
20. Twenty-Four Eyes (1987)
129 min | Drama
Director: Yoshitaka Asama | Stars: Yûko Tanaka, Tetsuya Takeda, Sumie Sasaki, Misako Konno
Votes: 30
21. The Asami Mitsuhiko Mystery 2 (1987 TV Movie)
90 min | Mystery
Director: Katsuhiko Fujii | Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Etsushi Takahashi, Akiko Izumi, Nobuko Otowa
22. The Asami Mitsuhiko Mystery 1 (1987 TV Movie)
90 min | Mystery
Director: Katsuhiko Fujii | Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Etsushi Takahashi, Akiko Izumi, Nobuko Otowa
23. Rakuyôju (1986)
105 min | Drama
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Keiju Kobayashi, Nobuko Otowa, Ichirô Zaitsu, Meiko Kaji
Votes: 1,082
24. Lost in the Wilderness (1986)
G | 140 min | Adventure, Drama
Adventure-drama based on the life of Naomi Uemura (Nishida), the first Japanese mountain climber to scale most of the world's highest peaks and explore the arctic and Antarctic.
Director: Jun'ya Satô | Stars: Toshiyuki Nishida, Chieko Baishô, Masato Furuoya, Gô Wakabayashi
Votes: 44
25. Burakkubôdo (1986)
110 min | Drama
Black Board tells the story of middle school bullying taken to the point of homicide.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Terutake Tsuji, Nobuko Otowa, Kazuki Minabuchi, Leo Morimoto
Votes: 53
26. Yasha (1985)
127 min | Crime, Drama
Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where he's become an honest fisherman.
Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Ken Takakura, Ayumi Ishida, Hisamitsu Nakamura, Kenichi Kobayashi
Votes: 279
27. Shiroi machi hiroshima (1985)
103 min | War
Director: Tengo Yamada | Stars: Izumi Imamura, Shiho Kikuzaki, Norihei Miki, Nobuko Otowa
28. The Island Closest to Heaven (1984)
102 min | Drama
A high school girl travels to the island of New Caledonia and has magical adventures.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Miyoko Akaza, Tomoyo Harada, Wakaba Irie, Shigeru Izumiya
Votes: 179
29. Location (1984)
99 min
Melodramatic story of a pink eiga film crew's tragi-comedic adventures on location as they struggle to complete the film and how their personal lives touch their professional lives.
Director: Azuma Morisaki | Stars: Toshiyuki Nishida, Michiyo Yasuda, Jun Miho, Akira Emoto
Votes: 18
30. The Horizon (1984)
136 min | Drama
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Toshiyuki Nagashima, Miwako Fujitani, Nobuko Otowa, Kumiko Akiyoshi
Votes: 12
31. Shinju yoi goshin (1984 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Ben Wada | Stars: Kiwako Taichi, Sakae Takita, Kei Satô, Nobuko Otowa
32. Oshin (1983–1984)
Biography, Drama, Family
Tells the story of Oshin, a poor little girl who would someday become the owner of a big supermarket chain in Japan.
Stars: Toshi Shioya, Nobuko Otowa, Yûko Tanaka, Ayako Kobayashi
Votes: 1,020
33. The Go Masters (1982)
123 min | Drama, History, War
Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely described as an Asian version of chess)... See full summary »
Directors: Ji-shun Duan, Jun'ya Satô, Shu'an Liu | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Misako Konno, Nobuko Otowa, Hideji Ôtaki
Votes: 196
34. Ekisutora (1982)
93 min | Comedy
Director: Yoshitaka Asama | Stars: Tetsuya Takeda, Eri Ishida, Nobuko Otowa, Kunie Tanaka
35. Edo Porn (1981)
Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Drama, History
The famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Ken Ogata, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yûko Tanaka, Kanako Higuchi
Votes: 463
36. Asshii-tachi no machi (1981)
129 min
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Ikkô Furuya, Jun Etô, Chikako Yuri, Keiko Takahashi
Votes: 9
37. Kazunomiya sama otome (1981 TV Movie)
146 min | Drama, History
An imperial princess refuses arranged marriage. People around her hatch a plot to find her substitute. Their outrageous plan lies heavily on a young girl named Fuki.
Director: Kenji Sawai | Stars: Shinobu Ôtake, Mitsuko Mori, Kimiko Ikegami, Nana Okada
38. Kutsukake Tokijirô (1981 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Director: Akinori Matsuo | Stars: Hashizô Ôkawa, Yoichi Hayashi, Yôko Yamamoto, Kô Nishimura
39. Kangofu no oyaji ganbaru (1980)
115 min | Drama
Fujinami Yasuo works at a job security office, and his wife Keiko is a nurse. Yasuo, who wanted to pursue a career in painting, carves prints at home after his work. However, now I envy ... See full summary »
Director: Seijirô Kôyama | Stars: Gin Maeda, Orie Satô, Yuriko Miyoshi, Nagisa Ohkuma
41. Omoeba tôkue kitamonda (1980)
93 min | Drama
Director: Yoshitaka Asama | Stars: Tetsuya Takeda, Shizue Abe, Mami Kumagai, Kei Yamamoto
42. Kôsatsu (1979)
116 min | Drama
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Kô Nishimura, Nobuko Otowa, Tsutomu Kariba, Akemi Negishi
Votes: 102
43. The Three Undelivered Letters (1979)
130 min | Drama, Mystery
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Shin Saburi, Nobuko Otowa, Mayumi Ogawa, Komaki Kurihara
Votes: 64
44. The Incident (1978)
138 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinobu Ôtake, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Tsunehiko Watase
Votes: 165
45. The 1st Annual Japan Academy Awards (1978 TV Special)
Stars: Masaru Doi, Masumi Okada, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Yoshitaka Asama
46.
Yokomizo Seishi shirîzu (1977–1978)
Episode:
Kamen butô kai Part 1
(1978)
54 min | Mystery
Director: Takashi Nagano | Stars: Ikkô Furuya, Isamu Nagato, Akiko Nomura, Isao Kimura
47.
Yokomizo Seishi shirîzu (1977–1978)
Episode:
Kamen butô kai Part 2
(1978)
54 min | Mystery
Director: Takashi Nagano | Stars: Ikkô Furuya, Isamu Nagato, Akiko Nomura, Isao Kimura
48.
Yokomizo Seishi shirîzu (1977–1978)
Episode:
Kamen butô kai Part 3
(1978)
54 min | Mystery
Director: Takashi Nagano | Stars: Ikkô Furuya, Isamu Nagato, Akiko Nomura, Isao Kimura
49.
Yokomizo Seishi shirîzu (1977–1978)
Episode:
Kamen butô kai Part 4
(1978)
54 min | Mystery
Director: Takashi Nagano | Stars: Ikkô Furuya, Isamu Nagato, Akiko Nomura, Isao Kimura
50. Chikuzan hitori tabi (1977)
119 min | Drama
After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s the rough-hewn blind shamisien player and folk-song collector named Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This ... See full summary »
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Ryûzô Hayashi, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Baishô, Dai Kanai
Votes: 110