Osamu Takizawa
Birthday: 1906-11-13
Place of Birth: Ushigome, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Osamu Takizawa (滝沢 修 Takizawa Osamu , 13 November 1906 – 22 June 2000 ) was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. Starting at the Tsukiji Little Theater, Takizawa participated in a number of theatrical troupes before forming Gekidan Mingei with Jūkichi Uno. His was praised for his performance in Death of a Salesman and also directed a version of The Diary of Anne Frank. Perhaps his most notable film role was in Fires on the Plain. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Osamu Takizawa , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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Turbid Youth
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, ...
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Fires on the Plain
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his comp...
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s ...
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Stolen Desire
A rambunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki t...
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Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi
Fukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and change...
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Facing to the Clouds
A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he...
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Bitter End of a Sweet Night
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate th...
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The Ball at the Anjo House
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion ...
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The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for th...
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Tojuro's Love
A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku...
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I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with a...
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Love Under the Crucifix
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a ma...
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Christ in Bronze
Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan....
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A Man Explodes
Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One...
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Asakusa at Night
A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hear...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, ...
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限りなき情熱
Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustl...
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The Grand Master
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...
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Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie...
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A Trap
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shar...
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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly...
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Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows
During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small t...
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Buddha
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years ...
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The Inheritance
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabout...
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The Great White Tower
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at ...
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August without Emperor
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove...
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Shadow of Deception
It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She no...
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Apostasy
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visit...
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Broken Drum
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his child...
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Secret of Naruto
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from...
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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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Till We Meet Again
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them....
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A Hole of My Own Making
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeep...
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Called to the Stand
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzle...
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Composition Class
Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contes...
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When Women Lie
Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Compan...
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Go...
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Children of Hiroshima
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the s...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaul...
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Story of a Beloved Wife
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno st...
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father,...
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The Temptress and the Monk
A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lover...
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The Tale of Genji
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and l...
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The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. H...
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Street of Violence
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chie...
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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 G...
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Stop the Old Fox
Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the inve...
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Jirocho Fuji
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' i...
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob...
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Etajima, the Naval Academy
The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Se...
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The Black Current
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a ...
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Drunkard's Paradise
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving beh...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung A...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have be...
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Shi no machi wo nogarete
Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War....
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No Greater Love
In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the Sa...
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The Brick Factory Girl
This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal...
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A Legend or Was It?
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the ...
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Jungle Block
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon...
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An Ocean to Cross
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and br...
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Taking the Castle
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was...
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The Heart of Hiroshima
One morning, Kazue is nearly knocked over by a motorbike in front of an instrument store, breaking a...
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Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha...
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That Guy and I
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, sh...
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Shutsugeki
An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by To...
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The Yamabiko School
A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village....
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Sakura-tai Chiru
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in th...
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Crimson Wings
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, i...
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On This Earth
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m...
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were ...
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The Man Who Laughs Last
The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigiou...
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The Giant
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Mi...
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The Bells of Nagasaki
The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki....
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Across the Darkness
A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed dur...
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Ghost Story of Youth
A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a balle...
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The Samurai of Edo
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition f...
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Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu
Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells hi...
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The Earth is Born Again
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work ...
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Gazing at Love and Death
A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy ...
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Chorus of the Century--Patriotic March
A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early da...
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The Day of Youth
At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wi...
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