Yoshitaka Zushi
Birthday: 1955-03-19
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Biography: Yoshitaka Zushi (頭師佳孝, born March 19, 1955 in Osaka, Japan) was discovered when he was eight years old by one of Akira Kurosawa's partners and debuted in the role of young Toshio in Kaneto Shindô's "Haha" (Mother, 1963). Since then he has appeared first and foremost in Kurosawa's pictures, beginning with "Akahige" (Red Beard, 1965). His most outstanding role is undeniably that of Rokkuchan, the insane young man who drives a trolley through the slums, in the wonderful "Dodesukaden" (1970).
Movies
Dodes'ka-den
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “dri...
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The Lucky General
The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulg...
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Prodigy
Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before...
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Best Wishes for Tomorrow
A Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of American A...
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Chizuko's Younger Sister
The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak ...
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Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
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Dreams
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a...
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Madadayo
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by ...
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Mother
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of ...
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Sound of the Tide
Japanese film based on the life of sculptor Eikichi Takahashi, who died as a soldier on Guadalcanal....
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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 ...
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When the Flowers Bloom
Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a re...
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Ran
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...
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SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
A tragic love story set in a mountain village in the Showa era, waiting for a fiancé who died in the...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Manga
15th entry in the Ekimae series, surrounding the then-insanely popular Weekly Shounen Sunday series ...
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Life of Matsu the Untamed
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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The Edo Murders: Sasachi's First Case
Based on an anonymous letter, a powerful lumber merchant is arrested for arson, but not everyone is ...
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The Human Bullet
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedicati...
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