Acting
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Born September 19, 1929 · Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Died November 11, 2007 · aged 78
No biography available.
Known For
XX: Beautiful Target · 1995XX: Beautiful Target
★ 4.91995
MovieCrimeThriller
When beautiful forensic scientist Kyoko and her colleagues fail to uncover clues to the identity of a man who brutally attacks and kills women, she agrees to become the bait to lure the killer into a police snare. But as the murderer remains frustratingly aloof, Kyoko discovers that she will have to risk everything in order to apprehend him. Naosuke Kurosawa directs this steamy thriller.
Woman in a Box: Virgin Sacrifice · 1985Woman in a Box: Virgin Sacrifice
★ 4.41985
MovieThrillerHorror
A young virgin is captured by an abnormal couple. The girl is kept locked in a wooden box, and subjected to sexual torture and abuse. Loosely inspired by the real-life case of Colleen Stan.
The Highest Honour · 1982The Highest Honour
★ 6.61982
MovieDramaWar
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
Madadayo · 1993Madadayo
★ 7.31993
MovieDramaComedy
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.
Hometown · 1983Hometown
★ 9.01983
Movie
Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young boy, Sentaro, who has heard that the old man was once a great angler. The unlikely pair spend lots of happy time together, until Denzo has a heart attack and dies far upstream. The dam is completed and the entire area is inundated. Everyone will move away, except Denzo.
The Man Who Stole the Sun · 1979The Man Who Stole the Sun
★ 7.31979
MovieCrimeThriller
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
The Beast to Die · 1980The Beast to Die
★ 5.81980
MovieActionCrime
A Nietzschean journalist who covered the Vietnam War, Lebanese Civil War and other conflicts becomes mentally unstable and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.
The Sun · 2005The Sun
★ 6.72005
MovieDramaHistory
A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.























