Hiroshi Akutagawa
Birthday: 1920-03-20
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Hiroshi Akutagawa (芥川比呂志) was born on March 20, 1920 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953), Gan (1953) and Tôkyô yawa (1961). He died on October 25, 1981 in Tokyo.
Movies
The Rickshaw Man
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
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The Wild Geese
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in...
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about th...
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A Thousand and One Nights
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through ...
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Hōryū-ji
This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temple...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-midd...
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Night and Fog in Japan
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look ...
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Kyoto
Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha re...
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Dodes'ka-den
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “dri...
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How Sorrowful
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to ...
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The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing ...
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The Valley Between Love and Death
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that i...
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Eyes of Children
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investi...
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stif...
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Jose Torres II
This is the sequel to Jose Torres (1959), the portrayal of Puerto Rican boxer Jose Torres, who won a...
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Till We Meet Again
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them....
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assass...
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Portrait of Chieko
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil p...
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Gomez's Name is Gomez
Company engineer sakamoto (tatsuya nakadai) is returning home after two years in the desert and visi...
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