Genjiro Arato

Acting

Genjiro Arato

Born 1946-10-10 · Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Acting credits

August in the Water poster
7.1

A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.

August in the Water

1995

The Naked Seven poster
6.3

Scantily clad female warriors battle thieves to save a small village. Director Yasuharu Hasebe crossed the Seven Samurai legends of Shichinin No Samurai with his own popular Naraneko Rokku series and dressed it up with some of the most popular softcore pinup queens of the day.

The Naked Seven

1972

The Mystery of Rampo poster
7.1

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.

The Mystery of Rampo

1994

Erotic Liaisons poster
4.6

A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided tours of the city to busloads of Japanese tourists.

Erotic Liaisons

1992

Trapped in Lust poster
5.3

A hitman messes up an assassination and so becomes the next target of his organization.

Trapped in Lust

1973

Loved Gun poster
7.0

A story about a hitman named Hayamada who carries a distinctive red gun. As the film progresses we discover the reason for his work, and how he came to be alone. His aim right now is to reach a desitination, but he's late.

Loved Gun

2004

Shuffle poster
7.5

Hiroshi Kobayashi is on the run from police who would arrest him for the murder of his girlfriend Naomi. At the same time, he wants revenge on the yakuza member Kimura who got her stuck in drugs. The entire film consists of a long hunting-scene.

Shuffle

1981

Behind the camera

Daughter of Time poster
NR

A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former Yoshiwara district. He takes her to an inn to gove birth, and stays on a few days as she recovers, but becomes fascinated with the strange people he meets there, particularly the owner, who visits a house in his courtyard every day to talk and give food to his mother. He says she is very sick and can't leave bed, but no one else has ever been inside or seen her.

Daughter of Time

1980

The Fallen Angel poster
6.5

The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide his alienation. He feels incapable of belonging to the human society, especially so by society's refusal to take him seriously. He then follows a descent into alcohol, drugs, & suicide ...

The Fallen Angel

2010

The Girl of Silence poster
6.0

14 year old Nakamura is sexually abused by her stepfather. She invents a friend who is coming to her rescue when she really needs it.

The Girl of Silence

1995

Akame 48 Waterfalls poster
6.1

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.

Akame 48 Waterfalls

2003

Trapped in Lust poster
5.3

A hitman messes up an assassination and so becomes the next target of his organization.

Trapped in Lust

1973

Knockout poster
7.2

A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.

Knockout

1989