Hisashi Igawa
Známy pre: Acting
Narodeniny: 1936-11-17
Miesto narodenia:
Taktiež známy ako: Хисаси Игава
Rhapsody in August
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her...
Uvoľnenie : 1991.05.25Popularita : 7.354
Tampopo
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner,...
Uvoľnenie : 1985.11.23Popularita : 17.126
47 Ronin
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal...
Uvoľnenie : 1994.10.22Popularita : 4.122
Hachiko
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
Uvoľnenie : 1987.08.01Popularita : 13.12
Boiling Point
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself....
Uvoľnenie : 1990.09.15Popularita : 7.024
Dodes'ka-den
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...
Uvoľnenie : 1970.10.31Popularita : 8.54
Bullet Ballet
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.
Uvoľnenie : 1998.12.01Popularita : 5.13
The Wolves
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former...
Uvoľnenie : 1971.10.30Popularita : 2.224
Madadayo
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...
Uvoľnenie : 1993.04.17Popularita : 11.364
Rikyu
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi...
Uvoľnenie : 1989.09.15Popularita : 2.602
Villain
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and...
Uvoľnenie : 2010.09.11Popularita : 3.342
Goyokin
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
Uvoľnenie : 1969.05.01Popularita : 6.253
Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
Uvoľnenie : 1970.01.26Popularita : 11.711
Pitfall
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of...
Uvoľnenie : 1962.07.01Popularita : 5.898
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
Uvoľnenie : 1966.08.12Popularita : 4.875
Nakibokuro
Junko Mizuta, who is returning from juvenile training school, is a former motorcycle gang. Even though he now works, he still goes to his father...
Uvoľnenie : 1991.09.28Popularita : 2.354
The Long Darkness
A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and...
Uvoľnenie : 1972.05.25Popularita : 5.128
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
Uvoľnenie : 1988.01.30Popularita : 4.908
Cash Calls Hell
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to...
Uvoľnenie : 1966.01.15Popularita : 2.243
Fifth Movement
When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...
Uvoľnenie : 1981.09.19Popularita : 1.187
For the coming day
Miyo Hanayama works as a home care nurse, supporting the home care of patients who are close to death. Shigeaki Noguchi complains that his wife has...
Uvoľnenie : 2005.05.06Popularita : 2.148
Letter from the Mountain
Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.
Uvoľnenie : 2002.10.05Popularita : 3.888
Young People
"Young People" is a story about the lives of four brothers and a sister, Sato. After the death of his parents, the older brother, Taro, who works in...
Uvoľnenie : 1968.12.16Popularita : 2.354
Kitokito!
Coming of age story about a boy and his mother.
Uvoľnenie : 2007.03.17Popularita : 0.908
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
Uvoľnenie : 2009.06.20Popularita : 1.747
A Samurai Chronicle
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.
Uvoľnenie : 2014.10.04Popularita : 4.386
The Oil-Hell Murder
The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.
Uvoľnenie : 1992.05.23Popularita : 6.459
Home from the Sea
On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the...
Uvoľnenie : 1972.10.28Popularita : 1.833
Luminous Moss
A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.
Uvoľnenie : 1992.04.25Popularita : 1.695
Black Board
Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns...
Uvoľnenie : 1986.09.17Popularita : 1.46
Farewell, Kuro
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at...
Uvoľnenie : 2003.07.01Popularita : 1.586
Police Department Story Pt.20: Backing Investigation
This time, the investigation division is investigating the case of a man who confessed to killing a woman in a labyrinth 2 years ago, adhering to the...
Uvoľnenie : 1963.02.10Popularita : 0.902
Gassan
Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for...
Uvoľnenie : 1979.10.20Popularita : 0.964
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...
Uvoľnenie : 1971.06.12Popularita : 3.978
Where Spring Comes Late
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because...
Uvoľnenie : 1970.10.24Popularita : 2.305
The Desperate
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai (Oki Minoru) pursues Chiyo...
Uvoľnenie : 1964.04.18Popularita : 0.746
Homicide
This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Affairs, about the beginning of the incident 2.26...
Uvoľnenie : 1964.06.20Popularita : 3.374
After the Rain
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst...
Uvoľnenie : 2000.01.22Popularita : 8.203
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II
Uvoľnenie : 1995.09.02Popularita : 1.799
The Living Koheiji
The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.
Uvoľnenie : 1957.08.04Popularita : 0.582
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
This is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first and last episodes of the tv show bridged by an edit...
Uvoľnenie : 1968.10.03Popularita : 0.794
Climbing to Spring
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their...
Uvoľnenie : 2014.06.14Popularita : 1.906
Half a Confession
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its...
Uvoľnenie : 2004.01.10Popularita : 2.052
Star Reformer
Satoshi Nomura, a top-level bureaucrat of a prefecture government, has passion for his career. One day, he is hired by the fixed-term personnel...
Uvoľnenie : 2006.02.25Popularita : 1.784
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of...
Uvoľnenie : 1978.04.29Popularita : 1.585
Basara: The Princess Goh
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to...
Uvoľnenie : 1992.04.11Popularita : 4.577
Big Shots Die at Dawn
An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively...
Uvoľnenie : 1961.04.09Popularita : 1.744
Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!
During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory.
Uvoľnenie : 1993.03.03Popularita : 0.968
War and Youth
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up,...
Uvoľnenie : 1991.04.01Popularita : 0.926
The Firefly
Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) was...
Uvoľnenie : 2001.05.01Popularita : 1.902
Ran
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...
Uvoľnenie : 1985.06.01Popularita : 26.19
Dreams
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Uvoľnenie : 1990.05.11Popularita : 12.712
Harikomi
When a team of detectives lose the trail of a murderer, they decide to keep an eye on the suspect’s ex-lover, who is trapped in an abusive...
Uvoľnenie : 1991.09.26Popularita : 1.859
Harakiri
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find...
Uvoľnenie : 1962.09.15Popularita : 20.064
Glowing Autumn
A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer....
Uvoľnenie : 1978.12.23Popularita : 1.433
Song of the Devil
Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that...
Uvoľnenie : 1975.08.15Popularita : 0.926
Lost in the Wilderness
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of...
Uvoľnenie : 1986.06.07Popularita : 1.228
Foujita
A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese...
Uvoľnenie : 2015.11.24Popularita : 1.868
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...
Uvoľnenie : 1959.11.20Popularita : 7.863
The Far Road
Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker...
Uvoľnenie : 1977.09.11Popularita : 1.143
The Class of the Sewage Canal
The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.
Uvoľnenie : 1972.12.19Popularita : 1.408
Friendship
Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when...
Uvoľnenie : 1998.05.16Popularita : 0.642
Midnight Diner 2
The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.
Uvoľnenie : 2016.11.05Popularita : 4.172
Lost in Time
A story of friendship between two women, Yae and Kiyoko. Their friendship is tested when artist Yae, who suffers from fatal illness, develops special...
Uvoľnenie : 1996.01.20Popularita : 0.575
Fight of the Gamblers
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1963.12.25Popularita : 0.75
The Village
This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and,...
Uvoľnenie : 1976.04.12Popularita : 0.749
Yamato
Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of...
Uvoľnenie : 2005.12.17Popularita : 7.02
The Face of Another
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Uvoľnenie : 1966.07.15Popularita : 7.643
Christmas in August
A Japanese remake of the South Korean film of the same name.
Uvoľnenie : 2005.09.23Popularita : 0.649
Main Line to Terror
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older...
Uvoľnenie : 1975.11.06Popularita : 2.027
Three Outlaw Samurai
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from...
Uvoľnenie : 1964.05.13Popularita : 4.862
Demon Pond
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a...
Uvoľnenie : 1979.10.20Popularita : 4.218
House on Fire
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work
Uvoľnenie : 1986.04.12Popularita : 3.152
Village of Eight Gravestones
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of...
Uvoľnenie : 1977.10.29Popularita : 3.72
A Thousand Suspects
Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.
Uvoľnenie : 1966.09.08Popularita : 0.847
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: Dodes'ka-den
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Dodes'ka-den" (1970).
Uvoľnenie : 2002.10.25Popularita : 0.688
A Trap
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in...
Uvoľnenie : 1965.05.28Popularita : 2.417
Kamigata Kugaizoshi
"Do Not Fall" - Set during Japan's Meiji period, three sisters are abused and exploited by their harsh father, including a daughter who plays the...
Uvoľnenie : 1991.02.09Popularita : 2.624
Organized Violence
A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.
Uvoľnenie : 1967.02.25Popularita : 1.105
Jose Torres
A documentary about the eponymous Puerto Rican boxer
Uvoľnenie : 1959.01.30Popularita : 1.452
The Fossil
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes...
Uvoľnenie : 1975.10.04Popularita : 2.133
Summer Soldiers
The plight of U.S. Army deserters from Vietnam on the run in Japan, centering on the culture clash between the troubled Americans and the Japanese...
Uvoľnenie : 1972.03.25Popularita : 2.379
Have a Song on Your Lips
Yuri Kashiwaga was once known as a genius pianist. One day, she returns to her hometown in Goto Islands from Tokyo. There, she begins to work as a...
Uvoľnenie : 2015.02.28Popularita : 4.011
Himeyuri no Tô (Tower of Lilies)
A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.
Uvoľnenie : 1982.06.26Popularita : 1.57
Fusa
Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.
Uvoľnenie : 1993.04.01Popularita : 1.377
Boys Meet Girls
A boy transfers into a new high school in the big city. He gets bullied, but meets a pretty girl. He tries to win her heart, but rivals abound. Debut...
Uvoľnenie : 1984.03.17Popularita : 2.076
Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.
Uvoľnenie : 1996.09.23Popularita : 2.804
An Ocean to Cross
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1980.01.26Popularita : 2.848
The Story of Pure Love
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...
Uvoľnenie : 1957.10.15Popularita : 1.925
Yun’s Town
A Japanese boy in love with a girl of Korean origin must battle the prejudices of those around him in order to sustain the relationship.
Uvoľnenie : 1989.06.03Popularita : 0.992
Willful Murder
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and...
Uvoľnenie : 1981.11.07Popularita : 3.346
Sada
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.
Uvoľnenie : 1998.04.11Popularita : 4.255
The Gate of Youth
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly...
Uvoľnenie : 1975.02.15Popularita : 2.037
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her...
Uvoľnenie : 1977.09.17Popularita : 1.621
Last Friends
Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to...
Uvoľnenie : 1995.06.03Popularita : 2.124
Tora-san's Runaway
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an...
Uvoľnenie : 1970.08.26Popularita : 1.753
Actress
Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.
Uvoľnenie : 1987.01.17Popularita : 2.951
The Cliff of Time
A film adaptation of the second play from "The Man Who Turned Into A Stick" by Kōbō Abe himself.
Uvoľnenie : 1971.07.02Popularita : 1.002
The Professor and His Beloved Equation
This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain damage.
Uvoľnenie : 2006.01.21Popularita : 2.097
TANNKA
Kaori, a professional thirty-something caught between her passion for an older married man and the indulgence of an energetic, but less-fulfilling,...
Uvoľnenie : 2006.11.11Popularita : 2.712
Deep River
A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.
Uvoľnenie : 1995.04.01Popularita : 1.144
The Story of Jiro
Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.
Uvoľnenie : 1987.07.04Popularita : 1.727
Goodbye for Tomorrow
People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to...
Uvoľnenie : 1995.09.23Popularita : 1.936
Konnichiwa Hânesu
A female college student who aims to become a pianist meets a boy who raises a guide dog.
Uvoľnenie : 1983.08.21Popularita : 1.221
Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...
Uvoľnenie : 1967.08.03Popularita : 5.051
Hotoke
Rai pedals his bike and trailer about town, collecting old iron and sowing flower seeds. Because his face never seems to show emotion, everybody...
Uvoľnenie : 2001.08.25Popularita : 2.348