The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
star 8.1
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief...
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Acting
Akitake Kōno
Akitake Kōno (河野 秋武 Kōno Akitake, 8 October 1911 – 17 March 1978) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1943 to 1973.
Kōno started acting with the Zenshinza theater troupe before joining the Toho studio in 1942. Mostly a character actor, he appeared in films by directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi as well on television.
Filmography
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Sansho the Bailiff
1954
star 8.1
In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separate...
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
1952
star 6.7
A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a hostile checkpo...
Sanshiro Sugata
1943
star 6.5
A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujutsu bravado f...
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
1945
star 6.0
A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline against an...
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
star 6.9
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime u...
Snow Trail
1947
star 7.0
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high...
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1957
star 7.0
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of h...
The Temptress and the Monk
1957
star 8.0
A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lovers into beas...
Points and Lines
1958
star 6.3
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detecti...
Lady From Hell
1949
star 9.0
Three and a half years after Japan was bombed, the tax authorities organized the T-Men. Nango is in love with a...
Taira Clan Saga
1955
star 6.8
Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the mo...
Town of Violence
1950
star 6.5
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the l...
The Escape
1962
star 7.0
Film about the 2-26 Incident.
Restoration Fire
1961
star 7.0
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s...
The Most Beautiful
1944
star 5.5
Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, enduring illness,...
Dotanba
1956
star 6.0
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A so...
Tower of Lilies
1953
star 6.8
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the...
The Great Road
1960
star 8.0
The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the w...
Mid-August Commotion
1962
A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the M...
The Wolves
1955
star 6.9
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japa...
An Enemy of the People
1946
star 9.0
Tadashi Imai 1946 movie
Miyamoto Musashi
1973
star 7.3
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing becaus...
Three Women of the North
1945
star 10.0
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the a...
The Shape of Night
1964
star 6.6
Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with on...
Adventures of Zatoichi
1964
star 6.7
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disa...
The Scarlet Camellia
1964
star 5.2
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so...
Hana no shôgai
1953
In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed i...
Souls in the Moonlight II
1958
star 6.6
This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, fol...
Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
1962
star 8.5
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when th...
Ken
1964
star 8.0
Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a p...
The Outsiders
1958
star 7.0
A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly isl...
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
1963
star 8.7
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wa...
The Samurai of Edo
1955
star 6.0
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end...
The Lord's spy
1964
star 7.0
Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitimate wife, wh...
Love is Lost
1956
star 8.0
Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.