Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Birthday: 1939-01-11
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Kawarasaki Choichiro was a Japanese actor born in Musashino Town, Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi High School and dropped out of Waseda University's Department of Literature. He is the eldest son of Kawarazaki Chojuro IV. His wife is Ito Eiko. His younger brothers are Kawarazaki Jiro and Kawarazaki Kenzo. At the age of 64, he died of acute heart failure.
Movies
Rhapsody in August
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity abo...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a ...
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Castle of Owls
Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi ...
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Double Clutch
Hiromi Go plays a high school student who needs a role model in his life badly. He's raised by his o...
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My Phoenix
Romance story about the first female manager of the Nihon University Phoenix...
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The Great Killing
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a vill...
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Himiko
The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view o...
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Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-
Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers...
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War and Youth
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the f...
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Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his supe...
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Gassan
Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and inter...
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My Way
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her hu...
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Gonza the Spearman
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appear...
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A Human Promise
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story ...
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Yojōhan seishun garasu-bari
A film that portrays the youth and fragile love of a transportation worker in Tokyo....
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Faraway Sunset
Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent...
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Sakura
The story of a bus conductor who dedicates his life to the cherished Japanese symbol....
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Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man
Richshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha, and t...
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Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under t...
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Eijanaika
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan ...
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Panic in High School
A high school student rallies his classmates into rebelling violently when the administration refuse...
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department ...
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Yagyu Chronicles 9: Assassin's Sword
The Yagyu Family have been teaching the Shinkage style of fencing for generations. Now a new fencing...
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying...
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My Beloved Is My Husband's Boss?!
In Jimpachi Kodera's household, young samurai Keishiro Kanie arrives, captivating Jimpachi's wife, S...
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Golden Peacock Castle, Part 2
The struggles of the Golden Peacock Clan continue as they seek to reclaim their home and prevent the...
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Golden Peacock Castle, Part 3
What will become of Sakon's lover, Shiragiku, who has been abducted to the Matsunaga Danjo residence...
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Golden Peacock Castle, Part 4
The righteous young men, who were separated by the all-out attack of sorcery, are saved by the frien...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end ...
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the st...
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Light of Africa
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido tow...
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In Search of Mother
Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza...
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The Ninja Hunt
Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional ba...
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyam...
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Shiro and Marilyn
Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite...
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There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Mi...
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13 Assassins
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when on...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw gen...
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Sasuke and His Comedians
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan childr...
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A Revengeful Raid
In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss o...
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Golden Peacock Castle, Part 1
A group of pirates led by the evil Gondaiyu and his wizard, Genkuro, capture the Golden Peacock Cast...
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The Gate of Youth
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens...
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Child of the Sun
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daug...
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Long Journey into Love
A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving her...
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A House in the Quarter
With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successfu...
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The Warrior from Kishu
This is a story of a young heir to a powerful house, sent away to be raised by his nanny, so the you...
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The Phantom Goblin
An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears ...
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The Conspirator
Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, dau...
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The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied hi...
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Fine Man
A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes ...
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River of Fireflies
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classma...
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This Is Noriko
Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which...
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The Girl I Abandoned
Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president....
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Dark Room
A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers ...
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Serial Killer: Coldblooded
Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta....
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A Carpenter and Children
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an aff...
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If You Were Young: Rage
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the t...
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Invitation of Lust
Hirobe is a lonely man. After witnessing her girlfriend die with a terminal illness, he wanders thro...
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Red Paper Lantern
A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfam...
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Sharaku
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publi...
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Moonlight Serenade
After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother af...
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It's Easier Than Kissing
After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father...
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Heaven Sent
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objec...
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The Christian Revolt
In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the...
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Giant Rumble
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greates...
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Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal...
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Tattoo of Love
The great Okawa Hashizo, in one of his most powerful roles risks his life and limb to help save the ...
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Manon
A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are at th...
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The Mad Fox
A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appea...
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu....
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The Gentle Japanese
A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute mo...
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The Strange Tale of Oyuki
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seduc...
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Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya meets a group of outcasts that help her...
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Takeshi: Childhood Days
A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the ...
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A Woman Called En
Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated b...
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Vengeance Is Mine
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police....
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Clouds at Sunset
A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start ove...
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Tokyo Bordello
A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest...
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Tokaido Fullhouse
When Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother Kir...
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Let's Go, Grandma!
Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanak...
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Profound Desires of the Gods
Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori cla...
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Lord of Steel Heart
A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Samurai Matabei, a famo...
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Yume-Chiyo
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something c...
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The Sharks
A film adaptation of Masatsugu Nobuhiko's novel of the same name, directed by Tasaka Tomotaka and st...
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