Shin Yasuda
Actor · 1932 – 1996
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MovieMusicComedyMusical comedy starring Watanabe Productions recording stars Nakao, Sono, and Ito as Toho's new "Sannin musume," three young women intended for 1960s audiences what Hibari Misora, Izumi Yukimura, and Chiemi Eri had been in the 50s.
Movie7.4ComedyIt is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.
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Movie7.0DramaA middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
Movie7.7DramaThe story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.
Movie6.0RomanceDramaA hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life.
Movie6.5RomanceDramaTwo former design school classmates, 21-year-old office worker Kyoko and illustrator Jiro, run into each other on the street and soon begin living together. With great care for their feelings, the two embark on a genuine love affair, expressed through their taboo and tension-filled cohabitation. Whilst hurting each other, they continue to explore the boundaries of their relationship in this boldly controversial film.
Movie7.0ComedyMaruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.
Movie9.0ComedyThe music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but decided to try his luck in the cosmetics business, and became the best salesman anyone had ever seen. First film in popular "Number 1" Series.
Movie7.2ComedyA group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.
Movie10.0ComedyAdventureThe Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of their most popular movies, featured scenes filmed on location in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. Appearing with the seven Cats were the lovely Mie Hama and such Japanese musical artists as The Peanuts, The Johnnys, The Drifters, and Jackie Yoshikawa & the Blue Comets.
Movie8.0ComedyScience FictionWhen the yakuza murder a bar hostess who, through a computer error, had amassed a huge fortune , the Crazy Cats make a robot duplicate of her.
Movie8.0ComedyTwo travelers (Makoto Fujita and Minoru Shiraki) travel the Tokaido road and meet the famous Jiro Shimizu and have many comedic adventures.
Movie9.0Saburo Sarutobi, a former member of the Zengakuren, and Maruo Inumaruo, a former member of the police force, have joined two rival companies, Toyotomi Denki and Tokugawa Musen, respectively, and have been at each other's throats at every turn. They are engaged in a nightly industrial espionage war in an attempt to somehow get under each other's noses, but eventually they both find themselves targeted by an international industrial espionage ring...
Movie7.0ComedyScience FictionChaos ensues when a secret agent gathers a group of criminals (The Crazy Cats) to steal gold from a bank.
Movie8.0The members of Crazy Cats play employees of a trading company. Ueda Hitoshi of Awa Shoji, a lucky man who never loses a bet, and the managing director, a gambling fanatic, are scammed in a business deal and set off for Macau where the mastermind, Chang, is located for a gambling showdown. Kei Tani plays the role of the Macau gambling manager.
Movie8.0ComedyCrimeInternational thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival thief WCWC for a rare gold samurai sword.
MovieDramaRemake of 1949 film
Movie10.0ComedyMusicAfter being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural vitality, they solve one dispute after another. But as it turns out, their next dispute will be at a global scale.
Movie10.0The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retired from the team) for one last feature, Jun Ichikawa's odd Memories of You (Kaisha mono-gatari, 1988) released by Shochiku. Most of the cast of Crazy lrresponsibles at Shimizu Harbor (1966) return in this sequel.
Movie8.0ComedyComedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.
Movie10.0ComedyMusicA con man defrauds a small rural town, sparking an international manhunt.