Isao Tamagawa
Birthday: 1922-01-11
Place of Birth: Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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Homecoming
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her...
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Tokyo Drifter
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kur...
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Branded to Kill
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another ...
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Zigeunerweisen
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through...
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Mount Hakkoda
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the wint...
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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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A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
A semi-autobiographical film about a young man from Tokyo who moves to Hirosaki in the early Shōwa e...
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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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若い川の流れ
The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employe...
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Safari 5000
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driv...
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Seishun no Sabaki
University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his f...
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Fighting Elegy
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelin...
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The Flower and the Angry Waves
A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing...
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Profit from Killing
The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was n...
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Outlaw: Heartless
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gamblin...
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Story of a Prostitute
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds...
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor
A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his ser...
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Tokyo Bay
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two...
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Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
Komori Chiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day while training, her coach hits a ball in...
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Graveyard of Honor
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. B...
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Pale Flower
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gan...
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Shadow Hunters
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably no...
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Hazardous Graduation
Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tab...
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Sweet Revenge
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. Hi...
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House of Terrors
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous mast...
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Tale of Army Brutality
Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill syst...
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The Rough One
A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a cru...
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Cross-Currents
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney o...
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The Stars and I Decided...
The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of mot...
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Take Me Away!
Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not...
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The Flower and the Sword
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees...
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Port Arthur
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified position...
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The Fall of Teenager
High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaoti...
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Gate of Flesh
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostit...
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Kagero-za
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife....
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Utamaro's World
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th...
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Twice on a Certain Night
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who...
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The Street Without Sun
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a ...
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War...
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Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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Actress
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasin...
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Gambling is My Destiny
Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, ...
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The Summit of Mt. Fuji
The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoo...
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Blood Shed
Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he a...
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Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very ba...
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対決
Late Taishō period. The Shibatora family, led by Naojirō, held power over the Tomigawara area in Jōs...
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The Black Gambler: The Gambling Syndicate
Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills...
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