Acting

Nikaku Shōfukutei

Born 1937-01-28

Acting credits

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees poster
7.0

A mountain bandit abducts a woman who demands he kill his other wives to please her, leading to a cycle of violence and madness fueled by superstition and obsession.

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

1975

Chie the Brat poster
6.8

Chie Takemoto is a dependable girl who struggles to help her troublesome father run a small tavern in Osaka. Unbeknown to her dad, she occasionally visits her mother who left him not too long ago. She plans on trying to reunite them, but not until her father gets a job.

Chie the Brat

1981

Go As Messy As Messy Can Be poster
NR

Comedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father, winning the favors of a hostess and ends up feeling the breasts and hips of all the girls in his father's office.

Go As Messy As Messy Can Be

1971

Zatoichi at Large poster
6.7

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her cruel fate.

Zatoichi at Large

1972

The Racketeer Ishimatsu poster
9.0

Action-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that becomes an unlikely hero.

The Racketeer Ishimatsu

1976

Sea of ​​Wandering poster
9.0

Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns from evacuation. The film is based on the novel of the same name written by Teru Miyamoto, and the screenplay was written by Eizo Sugawa, who also wrote "Horagawa". The director is Takeichi Saito, who also directed "Kawachi no Osan no Uta: Yokita no Ware". Kozo Okazaki, who worked on "I am a Cat," is in charge of the cinematography.

Sea of ​​Wandering

1990

Dream Street poster
9.0

A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.

Dream Street

1989

No artwork available
NR

1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.

Aoba gakuen monogatari

1981

Young Oh ! Oh ! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Young Oh ! Oh !

1973

Ā dokushin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ā dokushin

1970