The Ballad of Narayama
1983
star 7.5
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mo...
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Acting
Shoichi Ozawa
Shōichi Ozawa (小沢 昭一, Ozawa Shōichi, April 6, 1929 – December 10, 2012) was a Japanese actor, radio host, singer, and prominent researcher and expert on Japanese folk art. He also founded the Shabondama-za theater company.
Ozawa, who was born in Tokyo, graduated from Waseda University. He began acting after college, beginning with his debut stage role in 1951. He also appeared in television and film roles, acting quite frequently in films directed by Shohei Imamura and Yūzō Kawashima. In 1971, Ozawa launched his long running radio show.
Filmography
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The Eel
1997
star 6.9
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and mee...
The Insect Woman
1963
star 7.2
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its m...
Gonza the Spearman
1986
star 7.0
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appearances are v...
Story of a Prostitute
1965
star 6.5
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldier...
Take Aim at the Police Van
1960
star 6.1
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
Vengeance Is Mine
1979
star 7.6
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
Kaoru Kiri: The Best Lesbian in Japan, Authentic Account
1974
star 5.0
A backstage documentary and interview with the real life lesbian stage performer Kaoru Kiri mixed with a fictio...
Winter's Flower
1978
star 6.4
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daught...
Intentions of Murder
1964
star 7.0
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condit...
Pigs and Battleships
1961
star 7.1
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation perio...
Black Rain
1989
star 7.6
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and ni...
Ichijo's Wet Lust
1972
star 5.8
Ichijo Sayuri, once the legendary queen of Osaka strippers, has retired to run a sushi shop. She is awaiting he...
The Pornographers
1966
star 7.2
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he us...
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
1970
star 7.1
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moral...
Pleasures of the Flesh
1965
star 5.7
After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled money. What fo...
Love for an Idiot
1967
star 6.0
A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to...
Till We Meet Again
1955
star 7.0
Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with he...
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
1956
star 7.0
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo....
The Gate of Youth
1975
star 9.0
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal work...
Revenge
1964
star 7.5
An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to a...
Elegant Beast
1962
star 7.3
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their o...
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...
My Second Brother
1959
star 6.6
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling...
The Spying Sorceress
1964
star 8.0
Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the...
Bad Girl
1963
star 7.7
Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had...
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
1965
star 7.0
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make mo...
Female Ninja Magic
1964
star 7.1
In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blood descende...
Eijanaika
1981
star 6.2
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and...
Sweet Sweat
1964
star 8.3
This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is worki...
The Temple of Wild Geese
1962
star 6.5
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, di...
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...
Endless Desire
1958
star 6.8
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to di...
Wolves of the Night
1958
A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict...
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
1968
star 9.0
"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company.
Once a Rainy Day
1966
star 7.0
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in l...