Movies: Chōichirō Kawarasaki
- 1964
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple (1964)
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In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a...
- 1965
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro (1965)
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The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady ...
- 1987
There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl (1987)
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Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather to a young officer named Shinobu Ijuin. Because of his family’s noble status, Benio must first undergo rigorous training to learn how to be a proper ...
- 1995
Sharaku (1995)
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A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist a...
- 1964
Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall (1964)
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A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true identity and intentions....
- 1984
Serial Killer: Coldblooded (1984)
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Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta....
- 1963
A House in the Quarter (1963)
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With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to serve Takamatsu, one of the brothel’s top customers. But while Takamatsu falls madly in love with Yuko, s...
- 1986
A Human Promise (1986)
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An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death....
- 1970
Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970)
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Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yam...
- 1963
Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style (1963)
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In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on a mission of learning; with the introduction of his arch-rival Sasaki Kojiro; and lastly the large cast of char...
- 1963
Castle of Owls (1963)
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Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the 'Taiko' becomes the target of an assassination attempt to be carried out by the Iga Clan of ninja spies. Master spy Juzo Tsuzura (Ryutar...
- 1962
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights (1962)
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The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle after three years of intense contemplation and philosophical study and starting on his epic quest to co...
- 1981
Manon (1981)
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A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are at the mercy of her....
- 1974
Red Paper Lantern (1974)
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A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings....
- 1989
It's Easier Than Kissing (1989)
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After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father...
- 1993
Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict (1993)
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A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to take away his position and replace him with a member of their own family. When his wife is murdered and evidence is pr...
- 1974
My Way (1974)
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Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way....
- 1969
The Girl I Abandoned (1969)
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Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a f...
- 1986
Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth (1986)
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In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe. Around the same time, Shota's wife, Setsuko, also gave birth to a son. Hanako, the baby elephant, grows...
- 1971
A Woman Called En (1971)
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Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is released at the age of 44, the power struggles of her clan continue to disturb her life and the man w...