Kaoru Yamamoto
Actor
Movies13
Movie6.2ThrillerMysteryA sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
Movie8.0DramaA great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.
Movie7.0DramaIn the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.
Movie9.0RomanceComedyA romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.
Movie6.9DramaIn 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love with Shintaro. But Takichi objects to their relationship...
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MovieDramaThis 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
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Movie1960 Japanese movie
Movie1960 Japanese movie
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Movie1957 Japanese movie
高校四年
1957
Movie7.0HistoryThe first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he love. The second part depicts a hero who is ready to put the past behind him and risk his life for his friend.