Tag: Kyôko Kagawa
Posted on November 11, 2022 |
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The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai / Tōge saigo no samurai (2020)
Drama | History
The last samurai who lead an army of 690 against an enemy of 50 thousand – In 1867, political power returned to the Emperor and 260 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate came to an end, resulting in the domains being divided either into the Eastern Army or the Western Army. In 1868, the battle of Toba-Fushimi started the Boshin War. Tsuginosuke Kawai, the chief retainer of a small domain in Echigo called Nagaoka, decided not to belong to either army and practice "armed neutrality." Battle was the norm in the samurai era, but he strongly felt that war was not the answer and that it could not protect the citizens. Kawai tries to peacefully negotiate but it goes south, and being a hereditary feudal lord of the Tokugawa Shogunate, he eventually decides to stick to his duties and decides to exchange gunfire with the Western Army. Kawai was a man who loved his wife deeply and wished for nothing but the best for his country. The last battle of a man who hoped for a world without war begins now.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Takako Matsu, Min Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Tatsuya Nakadai
Director: Takashi Koizumi
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Posted on July 2, 2018 |
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After Life / Wandafuru raifu (1998)
Drama | Fantasy
After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
Starring: Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô, Kyôko Kagawa
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
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Posted on March 11, 2018 |
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Chikamatsu monogatari / The Crucified Lovers / The Tale of the Crucified Lovers (1954)
Drama | History | Romance | Thriller
Ishun is a wealthy, but unsympathetic, master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.
Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa, Yôko Minamida
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Tags: Eitarô Ozawa, Eitarô Shindô, Kazuo Hasegawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kyôko Kagawa, Yôko Minamida
Posted on June 7, 2017 |
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To a Brighter Place / Akarui hô e akarui hô e: Dôyô shijin Kaneko Misuzu (2001)
Biography | Drama
With an elder brother and an adopted younger brother who doesn't know it, Teru grows up in her father's bookstore. After she has graduated from girls school at the age of 17, her younger brother, Masahiro, suggests that she write about her observations in life. She begins to write poetry under the pen name of Misuzu Kaneko and her life as a poet begins making her famous. But what follows is a failed arranged marriage, Masahiro's broken heart, and a debilitating illness.
Starring: Takako Matsu, Ken Miyake, Hironobu Nomura, Yoshiko Nakada, Kyôko Kagawa, Atsuro Watabe
Director: Makoto Kiyohiro
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Tags: Atsurô Watabe, Hironobu Nomura, Ken Miyake, Kyôko Kagawa, Makoto Kiyohiro, Takako Matsu, Yoshiko Nakada
Posted on February 21, 2013 |
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Legend of Bailiff Sansho / Sansho the Bailiff / Sanshô dayû (1954)
Drama
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave traders. Under Kenji Mizoguchi's dazzling direction, this classic Japanese story became one of cinema's greatest masterpieces, a monumental, empathetic expression of human resilience in the face of evil.
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Akitake Kôno, Masao Shimizu, Eitarô Shindô
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Tags: Akitake Kôno, Eitarô Shindô, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Masao Shimizu, Yoshiaki Hanayagi
Posted on June 12, 2012 |
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High and Low / Tengoku to jigoku (1963)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control of the National Shoe Company, with the intent of keeping the company out of the hands of incompetent and greedy executives. He needs the same money, though, to pay the ransom that will possibly save a child's life. His resolution of that dilemma — the certain loss of the company vs. the probable loss of the child — makes for one distinct drama, and an ensuing elaborate police procedure makes for a second.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Tags: Akira Kurosawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirô Mifune
Posted on December 28, 2011 |
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The Bad Sleep Well / Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (1960)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Tags: Akira Kurosawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Toshirô Mifune
Posted on December 28, 2011 |
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The Lower Depths / Donzoko (1957)
Drama
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Ganjiro Nakamura, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Tags: Akira Kurosawa, Ganjiro Nakamura, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Minoru Chiaki, Toshirô Mifune
