Acting

Yuji Kawakita

Born 1923-11-22 · Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China

Acting credits

学生社長 poster
NR

The story centers on three students from Jiyu University who set up a part-time limited partnership, with Jotaro Yamaji (Koji Tsuruta) becoming its president.

学生社長

1953

Brutal Woman poster
NR

Tired of poverty, Keiko leaves home and soon takes a lover, but leads a wanton life without paying heed to his advice. However, the younger sister Yoshiko, is an innocent and kind girl. One day, with the sudden death of their mother in a car accident, Keiko learns that she and Yoshiko are actually stepsisters, and that she is the daughter of a murderer. She now plans extortion from Yoshiko's true father who is the president of a well-known trading company.

Brutal Woman

1960

Trouble Over Swords and Women:  A Woman's Mind poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Trouble Over Swords and Women: A Woman's Mind

1951

Kon'na watashi ja nakatta ni poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kon'na watashi ja nakatta ni

1952

No artwork available
NR

Produced by Shochiku’s all-star cast as a commemorative film to mark the completion of the “Shochiku Kaikan” in Tsukiji, Tokyo, this movie introduces both the Shochiku Ofuna and Kyoto studios. Part One focuses on the studio’s behind-the-scenes staff: set designers, prop masters, and lighting technicians. Part Two presents a digest-style overview of the process surrounding a young woman who auditions for the “New Faces” program, from the auditions to her debut as an actress.

Shochiku Festival: All-Star Lineup – Studio Express / The Birth of an Actress

1956

Hana no shôgai poster
NR

In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His friend, the Kokugaku scholar Nagano Shuzen, introduced him to a captivating shamisen master named Murayama Taka. Naosuke became deeply infatuated with her, disregarding the jealousy of his consort Shizu and the warnings of his senior retainer, Gaiji. However, upon discovering Taka's relationship with Shuzen, Naosuke promptly ended his ties with her.

Hana no shôgai

1953

Flying in the Air poster
10.0

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

Flying in the Air

1957

Always in My Heart Part 2 poster
6.5

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Always in My Heart Part 2

1953

Always in My Heart Part 3 poster
7.0

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

Always in My Heart Part 3

1954

Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star poster
NR

film directed by Tai Katô

Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star

1951

Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu poster
NR

1953 Japanese movie

Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu

1953

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre poster
10.0

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful.

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre

1951

No artwork available
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi

1961

Always in My Heart poster
6.8

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.

Always in My Heart

1953

Kyūkon sannin musume poster
NR

1954 Japanese movie

Kyūkon sannin musume

1954

大吉ぼんのう鏡 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

大吉ぼんのう鏡

1962

悲しき瞳 poster
NR

Shinjiro Tanabe, a teacher at a junior high school in the downtown area of ​​Tokyo, has two daughters, Mitsuko and Hitomi. Hitomi is the leader of her father's junior high school class and is working hard to prepare for the upcoming school trip and pamphlet. Tanabe is an old teacher who is often worried about financial difficulties and the future of Mitsuko, who is about to get married, but his family is bright with the cheerful Hitomi surrounding him. However, he finds himself in a difficult position when he sympathizes with his former student, the delinquent Akutsu, and uses the students' travel savings.

悲しき瞳

1953

No artwork available
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Tōkaidō yajikita chin dōchū

1959

Nightshade Flower poster
8.0

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Nightshade Flower

1951

The Lady Was Pawn poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Lady Was Pawn

1956

お役者小僧 poster
NR

The phantom thief, known as the "Actor Kid", who was creating a stir in the Daimyo's mansion, especially in the inner chambers, was called Inaba Goutaro. He was the adopted son of a samurai, Inaba Buemon. An incident occurred where his foster father collided with the palanquin of the lord's concubine. In the subsequent altercation, Goutaro killed one of the attendants. Taking responsibility for the act, his foster father committed seppuku, and Goutaro was hunted down. Facing death, his foster father revealed to Goutaro that after the death of his biological father, Goutaro's real mother and his younger brother were forcibly made to serve a lord. This revelation ignited Goutaro's determination to infiltrate the Daimyo's mansion to meet his birth mother.

お役者小僧

1953

Vengeful Beast poster
NR

A young obstetrician-gynecologist, who was betrayed by his beloved, out of hatred for women, turns into a vengeful demon and rapes women one by one.

Vengeful Beast

1960

The Three Musketeers Reunite poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Three Musketeers Reunite

1956

Karate Sanshiro poster
NR

Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging house girl who is in love with him and in the midst of a confusion challenges Yamauchi Tatsuhiko to a fight, forgetting the true core of martial arts, that should only be used as a selfdefense.

Karate Sanshiro

1951