Kyū Sazanka | Actor | Actress

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Kyū Sazanka

Kyū Sazanka (山茶花究 Sazanka Kyū, born April 1, 1914 – March 4, 1971) was a Japanese actor. Born : 1st-Apr-1914

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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Released : 15th-Jan-1959

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Fires on the Plain

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
Released : 3rd-Nov-1959

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Yojimbo

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Released : 25th-Apr-1961

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High and Low

A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted over whether he should pay the ransom.
Released : 1st-Mar-1963

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The End of Summer

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
Released : 29th-Oct-1961

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The Catch

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”
Released : 22nd-Nov-1961

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Giants and Toys

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Released : 22nd-Jun-1958

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Elegant Beast

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
Released : 26th-Dec-1962

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I Will Buy You

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
Released : 21st-Nov-1956

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A Whistle in My Heart

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
Released : 29th-Mar-1959

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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.
Released : 9th-Oct-1956

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The Bad Sleep Well

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.
Released : 15th-Sep-1960

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Manji

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
Released : 25th-Jul-1964

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The Makioka Sisters

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
Released : 14th-Jan-1959

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The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1956

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Story of Second Class Private, Sequel

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Released : 18th-Mar-1956

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親馬鹿花合戦

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.
Released : 29th-Jan-1953

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Detective Duel

A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating the missing person's case from a wealthy family.
Released : 6th-Aug-1958

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Song Festival, Full Moon, and the Battle of the Raccoon Dogs

Hibari Misora musical.
Released : 1st-May-1955

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Tale of a Company Boss 3

A story about the nature of office workers today.
Released : 1st-Nov-1961

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The Fencing Master

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New National Theatre Company, he wants nothing more than to choreograph the swordfights for the modern plays put on by the company.
Released : 30th-Sep-1962

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Odd Obsession

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.
Released : 23rd-Jun-1959

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Nonsense Boys

Japanese comedy film.
Released : 1st-Jun-1963

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A Warrior's Flute

Tale of tragic love between samurai and princess during Heian period.
Released : 4th-Dec-1955

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Spring Voyage

Japanese youth film.
Released : 19th-Apr-1955

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First Love of Okon

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.
Released : 6th-Jul-1958

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Warm Current

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.
Released : 1st-Dec-1957

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Bonds of Love

Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but tires of their authority over his life. A chance encounter with Yukiko Hirai one rainy night brings a new romance into Ryohei's life, and he and Yukiko fall deeply in love. Yukiko, however, reveals that she has a violent husband in prison - with only a week left until his release. Ryohei, desperate to maintain his social standing, brings Yukiko to the mountains in Nagano and sets in motion an unthinkable, tragic chain of events.
Released : 15th-Feb-1969

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A Geisha's Diary

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.
Released : 28th-Jul-1961

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Internees of Kampili

In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied women and children interned in camp Kampili. Kampili is located some ten kilometers outside Macassar on the island of Celebes. Eighteen-hundred Allied women and children were interned for the duration of the war. Yamaji's iron rule for camp administration is : No violence; hands off internees; He also endeavors to establish self-administration by internees while aiming at a self-supporting camp economy within six months. His ingenuity gains the camp numerous pigs to enrich their diet, and sewing machines with to make fatigue uniforms for the military. The internees are grateful for what little aid he can give them. As the tides of war changes, Allied planes bomb the camp in error. But the surrender of Japan changes everything, and the internees join forces to save their former camp commander from the gallows.
Released : 29th-Sep-1960

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Room for Let

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.
Released : 2nd-Jun-1959

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浮かれ狐千本櫻

Japanese comedy film.
Released : 28th-Dec-1954

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Pale Flower

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
Released : 1st-Mar-1964

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Darkness at Noon

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
Released : 26th-Mar-1956

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Hoodlum Soldier

A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.
Released : 18th-Mar-1965

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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Released : 15th-Jan-1960

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Chance Meeting

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her picture which he crushes and throws under his seat. One of her customers in Tokyo is a pretty girl named Kana for whom she had designed a dress which at first seems quite satisfactory. But a few days later Kana brings it back. It seems her brother thinks it terrible. But when Kana brings the dress back she meets Aya's brother, Takeshi, with whom she becomes friendly and Takeshi gives her a new dress which he smuggles out of his sister's office. When Aya finds Kana's discarded dress and misses one belonging to another customer she goes to see Kana's brother, and to her surprise finds him to be the fellow whose foot she'd stepped upon in the train...
Released : 15th-Jan-1958

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Black Dividend

Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love with Ibuki, reveals her firm's plans to him. She resigns when Ibuki blackmails her employer but Ibuki gains another spy in Ayuko Ichinoi...
Released : 21st-Apr-1963

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The Maid Story

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.
Released : 16th-Jun-1963

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Tough Guy

Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi and Sada set out to rescue her.
Released : 30th-Sep-1961

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Silence Has No Wings

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
Released : 11th-Feb-1966

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Sweet Sweat

Released : 19th-Sep-1964

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Woman Gambler Is Coming

Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Released : 31st-Jul-1968

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Pressure of Guilt

Released : 17th-Feb-1963

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A Comedy: The University Around the Corner

#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai).
Released : 31st-Oct-1965

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The Enforcer

Released : 14th-Nov-1964

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47 Ronin

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
Released : 3rd-Nov-1962

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The Swordsman and the Actress

A fellow member of the company named Hanjiro tells Koharu, an actress in a traveling theatrical troupe, about a keepsake folding fan that his lost love Lady Okyo gave him years ago. It turns out this fan is a precious clan heirloom whose possession, for convoluted reasons, will determine the clan's leadership. Sword-slinging bad guys descend to capture the fan, and Koharu embarks on a road trip to Edo to return the MacGuffin to the rightful hands of Lady Okyo.
Released : 9th-Jan-1955

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Travel Romances

Romantic comedy.
Released : 10th-Nov-1957

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The Sand City in Manchuria

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.
Released : 24th-Aug-1960

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An Osaka Story

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.
Released : 6th-Mar-1957

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TV Credits

太閤記

Hachisuka Koroku - Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1965

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