Hiroshi Akutagawa
Birthday: Born in 1920-03-20 in Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Deathday: 1981-10-25
Hiroshi Akutagawa (芥川比呂志) was born on March 20, 1920 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953), Gan (1953) and Tôkyô yawa (1961). He died on October 25, 1981 in Tokyo.
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春の坂道
Character: Yagyū Munetoshi
The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori....
源義経
Character: Minamoto no Yoritomo
The chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late Heian and early Kamakura general of the Minamoto clan of Japan. Yoshitsune was the ninth son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo. His older brother Minamoto no Yoritomo founded the Kamakura shogunate....
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The Rickshaw Man
Character: Capitaine Kotaro Yoshioka
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly....
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Character: Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Koichi Kido (uncredited)
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War....
The Wild Geese
Character: Mr. Okada
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age....
An Inlet of Muddy Water
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A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself in....
A Thousand and One Nights
Character: Badli (voice)
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power....
Hōryū-ji
Character: Narrator (voice)
This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temples. Horyu-ji, in the small town of Ikaruga outside Japan’s ancient capital of Nara, was one of the first Buddhist places of worship established in Japan, and contains the oldest surviving wooden buildings in the world, dating from the seventh century....
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Character: Kenzo Kubo
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo....
Night and Fog in Japan
Character: Prof. Udagawa
Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments....
Kyoto
Character: Narrator
Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha residence, the Katsura Imperial Villa, and the Gion Festival....
Dodes'ka-den
Character: Hei
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on....
A Certain Woman
Character: Kibe
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Night Butterflies
Character: Osamu Harada
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival....
The Twilight Story
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In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick....
The Valley Between Love and Death
Character: Kiyoshi Kazami
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair....
Eyes of Children
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A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds over the treatment of his daughter, with accusations that he abused the little girl. A sensational trial ensues in which the lawyer becomes a defendant, and secrets from childhood fester even into adulthood....
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
Character: Mizuno Echizennokami
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws....
Jose Torres II
Character: Narrator (voice)
This is the sequel to Jose Torres (1959), the portrayal of Puerto Rican boxer Jose Torres, who won a silver medal in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. We follow Torres from his training in preparation to challenge world lightweight champion Willie Pastrano, to the match and Torres’ victory in 1965. The contrast between the nervous Torres before the match, filmed in painstaking detail, and the first round, filmed in one shot, is striking....
Till We Meet Again
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Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them....
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Character: Narrator (voice)
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history....