Acting

Norikazu Takeda

Acting credits

Good Morning poster
7.7

Two boys beg their parents for a television set, nagging them until all patience is lost. The parents order the boys to be quiet and the boys do exactly that--refusing to utter a word. The boys' silence ultimately puts the whole neighborhood into turmoil.

Good Morning

1959

Early Spring poster
7.5

A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.

Early Spring

1956

Late Autumn poster
7.7

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Late Autumn

1960

Equinox Flower poster
7.4

Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a coworker and is adamant to live her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.

Equinox Flower

1958

I Will Buy You poster
7.1

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

I Will Buy You

1956

The Big Ambition poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Big Ambition

1955

Vagabond Lovers poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vagabond Lovers

1959

The Catch poster
6.5

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'.

The Catch

1961

The Thick-Walled Room poster
7.2

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

The Thick-Walled Room

1956

Killers on Parade poster
6.5

A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.

Killers on Parade

1961

A Japanese Tragedy poster
5.8

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.

A Japanese Tragedy

1953

Stakeout poster
7.1

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

Stakeout

1958

慶安水滸傳 poster
NR

Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata Ogino Sawanojiki, formed a bond with the theater's bodyguard, Maruhashi Tadayasu, and Kaku, a priest. He ended up settling at the Kasugaya, the house of Oko, whom he had saved. When Oko decided to go to Edo, where her biological father lived, Daisuke accompanied her. Along the way, at Suruga Abe River, they encountered Sawanojiki's theater group, which had departed from Osaka earlier heading to Edo. A scuffle initiated by Tadayasu over a ferry boat with the students of Yui Masayuki but was amicably resolved through Masayuki's intervention.

慶安水滸傳

1954

Youth in Fury poster
7.0

Amidst the 1960 Japanese-American mutual security treaty, alienated young nihilist Takuya struggles to find his footing between his do-nothing wealth and the outer Western extremism as major student protests take place.

Youth in Fury

1960

Akuma no kao poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Akuma no kao

1957

Ai to kanashimi to poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Ai to kanashimi to

1962

Wakai nobara poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wakai nobara

1965

Carmen's Innocent Love poster
5.2

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Carmen's Innocent Love

1952

Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi poster
NR

A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido.

Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi

1958

Kyūkon sannin musume poster
NR

1954 Japanese movie

Kyūkon sannin musume

1954

One Step to Happiness poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

One Step to Happiness

1958

俺は死なない poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

俺は死なない

1956

Haha to ko no mado poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Haha to ko no mado

1957

The Abalone Gals poster
NR

South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playland and the girls, who had been abalone divers, now become geisha, and the old ways of the island are all topsy-turvy. One of the girls, more sensitive than the rest, sees that here, too, people are motivated only by greed and decides to leave and try to find a better life elsewhere.

The Abalone Gals

1965