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Acting
Kan Sugi
Born August 14, 1889
Died August 7, 1974 · aged 84
No biography available.
Known For
Seven Samurai · 1954Seven Samurai
★ 8.51954
MovieActionDrama
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
The Symbol of a Man · 1963The Symbol of a Man
★ 7.01963
MovieDrama
A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict.
Ghost Story of Yotsuya · 1959Ghost Story of Yotsuya
★ 6.51959
MovieHorror
This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend about a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.
Straight Talk on Romance: The Definitive Guide · 1961Straight Talk on Romance: The Definitive Guide
1961
MovieDramaRomance
A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku".
Snow-Flake · 1950Snow-Flake
★ 7.51950
MovieDrama
Mole Alley · 1953Mole Alley
★ 8.01953
MovieDrama
33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writing Ogata's manuscript, he would buy dorayaki as a gratuity and devour it.
Bridge of Japan · 1956Bridge of Japan
★ 7.81956
MovieRomanceDrama
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.
The Lady Vampire · 1959The Lady Vampire
★ 5.41959
MovieHorror
Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...
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音楽大進軍 · 1943音楽大進軍
★ 7.01943
MovieDramaMusic
A 1943 film.
Ryohei Yamakura
Kekkon Sanjûshi · 1949Kekkon Sanjûshi
1949
MovieDrama
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