Acting

Takashi Sue

Born 1921-07-31 · Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan

Acting credits

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer poster
8.4

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his men sneak behind enemy lines.

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

1961

Rape and Death of a Housewife poster
6.5

Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.

Rape and Death of a Housewife

1978

Double Suicide poster
7.0

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.

Double Suicide

1969

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun poster
7.6

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

1972

Elegy of the North poster
6.1

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes dangerously obsessed with his unfaithful wife, Akiko.

Elegy of the North

1957

The Story of Pure Love poster
6.8

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.

The Story of Pure Love

1957

Fight of the Gamblers poster
6.0

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.

Fight of the Gamblers

1963

Cyclops poster
4.9

A bizarre medical exam of a nude woman by several doctors and scientists reveals that their latest subject has committed suicide before giving birth to one of the mutant creatures they had placed within her body. So, an investigative crew of scientists (along with a large human mutant cyclops creature) heads out to the city streets to obtain a new donor/victim in the form of a young girl. Gore and Z-Grade mayhem ensue.

Cyclops

1987

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

1959

Stepbrothers poster
7.4

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946.

Stepbrothers

1957

An Ocean to Cross poster
9.0

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.

An Ocean to Cross

1980

Red Paper Lantern poster
7.3

A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.

Red Paper Lantern

1974

Sudachi no toki kyoiku wa shinazu poster
4.0

Here is a school that has never expelled a single student, believing in its children even after betrayal and betrayal after betrayal! Yoji (Yoichi Sase), the son of a doctor in Suwa, and Nobuko (Mayuki Kirihara), the daughter of a weaver in Kyoto, are transferred to the class of Omura (Chiemi Eri), a PE teacher at Shinonoi Asahi High School, a private school for troubled children. The school principal (Hiroyuki Nagato) says that the school's policy of "not letting anyone drop out of school" must be upheld, and Omura struggles to do everything in his power to respond. Based on a true story by Shigeta Wakabayashi, an education critic, the film depicts the relationship between a student abandoned by his parents and a teacher who sincerely deals with them.

Sudachi no toki kyoiku wa shinazu

1981

Slave Factory poster
9.0

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.

Slave Factory

1968

Rookie Detective poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rookie Detective

1964

The Long Death poster
9.0

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amount of money. In parallel with the investigation conducted by the Japanese police, journalists are also trying to find the culprit. Based on a true incident.

The Long Death

1964

Barefoot Gen poster
5.0

First live action adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa's manga.

Barefoot Gen

1976

Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Devil's Rose poster
NR

The first installment of Seven-Color Mask: King Rose.

Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Devil's Rose

1959

The Class of the Sewage Canal poster
NR

The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.

The Class of the Sewage Canal

1972

A Woman Called En poster
NR

Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is released at the age of 44, the power struggles of her clan continue to disturb her life and the man whom she loves.

A Woman Called En

1971

Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Disappearing Gentleman poster
NR

The second installment of Seven-Color Mask: King Rose.

Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Disappearing Gentleman

1959

Okinawa poster
NR

A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island.

Okinawa

1970

Seven-Color Mask: Terrifying Revenge poster
NR

The second installment of Seven-Color Mask.

Seven-Color Mask: Terrifying Revenge

1959

Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Challenge from the Dead poster
NR

King Rose returns, unleashing terror from beyond the grave. Detective Kotaro Ran, as Seven-Color Mask, investigates eerie crimes. As he unravels the mystery, he faces deadly traps and a final battle to stop King Rose's reign.. The third and final installment of Seven-Color Mask: King Rose.

Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Challenge from the Dead

1959