Birthday: 1926-02-07
Place of Birth: Mukden, Manchuria (now Shenyang, Liaoning province, China)
Biography: No biography available.
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno st...
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When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and...
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When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...
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One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this t...
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A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out o...
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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 Tokugawa Period, a time in which appear...
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One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy me...
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Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed b...
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The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist boar...
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Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies....
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In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat...
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The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a...
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Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golde...
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During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in t...
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A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. ...
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The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is...
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In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance...
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The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society....
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The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin,...
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It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one ...
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Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple i...
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[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrin...
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A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchante...
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Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a geisha who was once involved with Kisuke's late fathe...
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Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending t...
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As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader...
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Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they an...
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A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her gua...
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After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, ru...
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Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven...
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Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time ...
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When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival ga...
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Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the T...
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Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involve...
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The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a so...
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Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...
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In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...
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It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Kats...
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Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirst...
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Will the assassin take my life or will a beautiful woman take my chastity? Or will a beautiful woman...
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