Movies: Chōichirō Kawarasaki

  • 1964
    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple (1964)

    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

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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...

    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
  • 1965
    Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro

    Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro (1965)

    Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro

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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 ...

    Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
  • 1987
    There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl

    There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl (1987)

    There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl

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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 ...

    There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
  • 1995
    Sharaku

    Sharaku (1995)

    Sharaku

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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...

    Sharaku
  • 1964
    Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall

    Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall (1964)

    Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall

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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....

    Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
  • 1984
    Serial Killer: Coldblooded

    Serial Killer: Coldblooded (1984)

    Serial Killer: Coldblooded

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    Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta....

    Serial Killer: Coldblooded
  • 1963
    A House in the Quarter

    A House in the Quarter (1963)

    A House in the Quarter

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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...

    A House in the Quarter
  • 1986
    A Human Promise

    A Human Promise (1986)

    A Human Promise

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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....

    A Human Promise
  • 1970
    Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

    Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970)

    Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

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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...

    Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
  • 1963
    Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style

    Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style (1963)

    Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style

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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...

    Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
  • 1963
    Castle of Owls

    Castle of Owls (1963)

    Castle of Owls

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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...

    Castle of Owls
  • 1962
    Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights

    Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights (1962)

    Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights

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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...

    Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
  • 1981
    Manon

    Manon (1981)

    Manon

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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....

    Manon
  • 1974
    Red Paper Lantern

    Red Paper Lantern (1974)

    Red Paper Lantern

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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....

    Red Paper Lantern
  • 1989
    It's Easier Than Kissing

    It's Easier Than Kissing (1989)

    It's Easier Than Kissing

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    After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father...

    It's Easier Than Kissing
  • 1993
    Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict

    Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict (1993)

    Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict

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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...

    Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
  • 1974
    My Way

    My Way (1974)

    My Way

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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....

    My Way
  • 1969
    The Girl I Abandoned

    The Girl I Abandoned (1969)

    The Girl I Abandoned

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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...

    The Girl I Abandoned
  • 1986
    Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

    Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth (1986)

    Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

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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...

    Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
  • 1971
    A Woman Called En

    A Woman Called En (1971)

    A Woman Called En

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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...

    A Woman Called En