1926-02-07 (99 years old)
Mukden, Manchuria (now Shenyang, Liaoning province, China)
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno st...
When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and...
Early film directed by Kenji Misumi....
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...
1962 Japanese movie...
One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this t...
A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out o...
Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the imposs...
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The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appear...
One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy me...
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed b...
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist boar...
Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies....
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat...
Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō....
The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a...
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golde...