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Hiroshi Akutagawa (芥川比呂志) was born on March 20, 1920 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953), Gan (1953) and Tôkyô yawa (1961). He died on October 25, 1981 in Tokyo.
Total trailers found: 33
26 January 1970
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end.
01 January 1958
This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temples.
22 June 1967
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter.
31 October 1970
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses.
14 June 1969
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
05 March 1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
21 April 1958
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
28 July 1957
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
23 November 1953
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself in.
18 April 1970
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
21 September 1954
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.
15 January 1956
Shunji Mitamura's wife died very early and left him a young son. Shunji's sister Hideko decided to fulfill her sisterly duty and moved to the main character to take care of the boy and the house.
17 October 1970
The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the 1868 Restoration.
28 August 1960
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing mother.
27 August 1957
Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.
21 March 1950
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
17 October 1961
A Japanese film from 1963, Directed by Shirô Toyoda.
15 October 1969
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
27 May 1967
On his way back to Japan after two years in the desert, oil company engineer Sakamoto visits his friend Katori in Hong Kong.
15 September 1953
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
09 October 1960
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
04 March 1965
This is the sequel to Jose Torres (1959), the portrayal of Puerto Rican boxer Jose Torres, who won a silver medal in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
07 September 1956
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.
29 July 1958
Pacific war documentary culled from approximately 40,000 feet of Nippon Eiga Shinsha wartime stock, as well from British and American sources.
01 January 1969
Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha residence, the Katsura Imperial Villa, and the Gion Festival.
22 July 1953
A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.
29 January 1958
A romance between a young koto prodigy and the head of a koto school’s daughter.
