
Birthday:
07-18-1915
Deathday:
09-26-1990 (75 years)
Birthplace:
Not available
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The Sea and Poison
Producer
event1986 star_border 6.9
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Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American air crew.
The Youth Killer
Producer
event1976 star_border 6.6
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Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
Preparation for the Festival
Producer
event1975 star_border 5.7
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Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Producer
event1973 star_border 6
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Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war.
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Producer
event1970 star_border 6.6
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The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria.
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Producer
event1971 star_border 5.8
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Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition.
The Lucky General
Producer
event1962
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The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was running his business and hitting him with a taxi turned out to be a trifle for him. A unique work, filled with tears and laughter, praising the beautiful human love that blooms at the bottom of life, focused on the genius “General” who lives in the troubled city of Kamagasaki.
The Insect Woman
Producer
event1963 star_border 7.4
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A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
Fighting Elegy
Producer
event1966 star_border 7
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Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
Endless Desire
Production Design
event1958 star_border 6.5
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Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.
Stolen Desire
Producer
event1958 star_border 6.6
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A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.
Apart from Life
Producer
event1970 star_border 5.8
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A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
Pigs and Battleships
Novel
event1961 star_border 7.1
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In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
Wind and waves of the South
Production Design
event1961
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Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth of mother's hands. It seemed that joy settled in their house again. But one day a storm caught the fishermen at sea. Father did not return... Father's friends, fishermen, tried to help the widow, who was left with two children. But the money was still not enough. And then Kazuo decided to become a fisherman. After all, he was now the eldest in the family...
The Flesh Is Weak
Executive Producer
event1957 star_border 6
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A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
How Sorrowful
Executive Producer
event1956
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The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune.
Kanshō fujin
Executive Producer
event1956
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Japanese drama film.
Foundry Town
Producer
event1962 star_border 7.6
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Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.
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