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Throne of Blood (1957) D: Akira Kurosawa S: Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa (based on the William Shakespeare play The Traged...
折鶴お千(1935) The Downfall of Osen 監督 溝口健二 Director Kenji Mizoguchi 出演 Cast 山田五十鈴 Isuzu Yamada 夏川大二郎 Daijiro Natsukawa 芳沢一郎 Ichiro Yoshizawa 芝田新 Arata Shibata 鳥...
折鶴お千(1935) The Downfall of Osen 監督 溝口健二 Director Kenji Mizoguchi 出演 Cast 山田五十鈴 Isuzu Yamada 夏川大二郎 Daijiro Natsukawa 芳沢一郎 Ichiro Yoshizawa 芝田新 Arata Shibata 鳥...
折鶴お千(1935) The Downfall of Osen 監督 溝口健二 Director Kenji Mizoguchi 出演 Cast 山田五十鈴 Isuzu Yamada 夏川大二郎 Daijiro Natsukawa 芳沢一郎 Ichiro Yoshizawa 芝田新 Arata Shibata 鳥...
折鶴お千(1935) The Downfall of Osen 監督 溝口健二 Director Kenji Mizoguchi 出演 Cast 山田五十鈴 Isuzu Yamada 夏川大二郎 Daijiro Natsukawa 芳沢一郎 Ichiro Yoshizawa 芝田新 Arata Shibata 鳥...
折鶴お千(1935) The Downfall of Osen 監督 溝口健二 Director Kenji Mizoguchi 出演 Cast 山田五十鈴 Isuzu Yamada 夏川大二郎 Daijiro Natsukawa 芳沢一郎 Ichiro Yoshizawa 芝田新 Arata Shibata 鳥...
折鶴お千(1935) The Downfall of Osen 監督 溝口健二 Director Kenji Mizoguchi 出演 Cast 山田五十鈴 Isuzu Yamada 夏川大二郎 Daijiro Natsukawa 芳沢一郎 Ichiro Yoshizawa 芝田新 Arata Shibata 鳥...
Trailer for Akira Kurosawa's film starring Toshirô Mifune,Tatsuya Nakadai,Yôko Tsukasa,Isuzu Yamada,Daisuke Katô,Seizaburô Kawazu,Takashi Shimura,Hiroshi Tac...
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1936. Directed by Mizoguchi Kenji. Starring Yamada Isuzu, Takegawa Sei'ichi, and Okura Chiyoko. Subtitles in English, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. "Ken...
歌行燈(1943) The Song Lantern 監督 成瀬巳喜男 Director Mikio Naruse 出演 Cast 花柳章太郎 Shotaro Hanayagi 柳永二郎 Eijiro Yanagi 大矢市次郎 Ichijiro Oya 伊志井寛 Kan Ishii 山田五十鈴 Isuzu Yam...
歌行燈(1943) The Song Lantern 監督 成瀬巳喜男 Director Mikio Naruse 出演 Cast 花柳章太郎 Shotaro Hanayagi 柳永二郎 Eijiro Yanagi 大矢市次郎 Ichijiro Oya 伊志井寛 Kan Ishii 山田五十鈴 Isuzu Yam...
歌行燈(1943) The Song Lantern 監督 成瀬巳喜男 Director Mikio Naruse 出演 Cast 花柳章太郎 Shotaro Hanayagi 柳永二郎 Eijiro Yanagi 大矢市次郎 Ichijiro Oya 伊志井寛 Kan Ishii 山田五十鈴 Isuzu Yam...
歌行燈(1943) The Song Lantern 監督 成瀬巳喜男 Director Mikio Naruse 出演 Cast 花柳章太郎 Shotaro Hanayagi 柳永二郎 Eijiro Yanagi 大矢市次郎 Ichijiro Oya 伊志井寛 Kan Ishii 山田五十鈴 Isuzu Yam...
歌行燈(1943) The Song Lantern 監督 成瀬巳喜男 Director Mikio Naruse 出演 Cast 花柳章太郎 Shotaro Hanayagi 柳永二郎 Eijiro Yanagi 大矢市次郎 Ichijiro Oya 伊志井寛 Kan Ishii 山田五十鈴 Isuzu Yamada 瀬戸英一 Eiichi Seto 村田正雄 Masao Murata 南一郎 Ichiro Minami 吉岡啓太郎 Keitaro Yoshioka 渡辺一郎 Ichiro Watanabe 山口正夫 Masao Yamaguchi 中川秀夫 Hideo Nakagawa 青木喜好 Nobuyoshi Aoki 島章 Akira Shima 花田皓夫 Akio Hanada 辰巳鉄之助 Tetsunosuke Tatsumi 松島慶之助 Keinosuke Matsushima 柳戸はる子 Haruko Yanagito 明石久子 Hisako Akashi 清川玉枝 Tamae Kiyokawa 公開日 1943年2月11日 Release Date 11 February 1943
歌行燈(1943) The Song Lantern 監督 成瀬巳喜男 Director Mikio Naruse 出演 Cast 花柳章太郎 Shotaro Hanayagi 柳永二郎 Eijiro Yanagi 大矢市次郎 Ichijiro Oya 伊志井寛 Kan Ishii 山田五十鈴 Isuzu Yam...
歌行燈(1943) The Song Lantern 監督 成瀬巳喜男 Director Mikio Naruse 出演 Cast 花柳章太郎 Shotaro Hanayagi 柳永二郎 Eijiro Yanagi 大矢市次郎 Ichijiro Oya 伊志井寛 Kan Ishii 山田五十鈴 Isuzu Yamada 瀬戸英一 Eiichi Seto 村田正雄 Masao Murata 南一郎 Ichiro Minami 吉岡啓太郎 Keitaro Yoshioka 渡辺一郎 Ichiro Watanabe 山口正夫 Masao Yamaguchi 中川秀夫 Hideo Nakagawa 青木喜好 Nobuyoshi Aoki 島章 Akira Shima 花田皓夫 Akio Hanada 辰巳鉄之助 Tetsunosuke Tatsumi 松島慶之助 Keinosuke Matsushima 柳戸はる子 Haruko Yanagito 明石久子 Hisako Akashi 清川玉枝 Tamae Kiyokawa 公開日 1943年2月11日 Release Date 11 February 1943
One of the most celebrated screen adaptations of Shakespeare into film, Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood reimagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa’s longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells of a valiant warrior’s savage rise to power and his ignominious fall. With Throne of Blood, Kurosawa fuses one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies with the formal elements of Japanese Noh theater to make a Macbeth that is all his own—a classic tale of ambition and duplicity set against a ghostly landscape of fog and inescapable doom.
監督 伊丹万作 Director Mansaku Itami 出演 Cast 片岡千恵蔵 Chiezo Kataoka 山田五十鈴 Isuzu Yamada 瀬川路三郎 Michisaburo Segawa 沢村寿三郎 Jusaburo Sawamura 香川良介 Ryosuke Kagawa 香川澄江 Sumi...
Yojimbo (1961) Full Movie - http://v.ht/XvHP - Starring Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada and Directed by: Akira Kurosawa STORY: Sanjuro, a wandering samurai enters a rural town in nineteenth century Japan. After learning from the innkeeper that the town is divided between two gangsters, he plays one side off against the other. His efforts are complicated by the arrival of the wily Unosuke, the son of one of the gangsters, who owns a revolver. Unosuke has Sanjuro beaten after he reunites an abducted woman with her husband and son, then massacres his father's opponents. During the slaughter, the samurai escapes with the help of the innkeeper; but while recuperating at a nearby temple, he learns of innkeeper's abduction by Unosuke, and returns to the town to confront him. Genre: Action, Drama
Subscribe to our channel! Asian movies with subtitles! Maria no Oyuki マリアのお雪 Oyuki the Virgin Director: Kenji Mizoguchi / 溝口 健二 Year: 1935 Duration: 75 min O...
Hideko Takamine (1924-2010) The collage is formed from six of the movies Hideko Takamine made during 1939-1947: "flowers of italy," (1939) "hideko the cheerl...
Visit This Site : ☞ http://nin.tl/1by4aJA To Watch Yojimbo (1961) Full Movie ( Film Complet ) Overview The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage. Remade twice, by Sergio Leone and Walter Hill, this exhilarating genre-twister remains one of the most influential and entertaining films of all time. Tagline No tagline has been added. Crew Director: Akira Kurosawa Writers: Akira Kurosawa, Ryûzô Kikushima Show All Show All Cast Toshiro Mifune Toshiro Mifune as Sanjuro Kuwabatake / … Tatsuya Nakadai Tatsuya Nakadai as Unosuke, gunfighter Yôko Tsukasa Yôko Tsukasa as Nui Isuzu Yamada Isuzu Yamada as Orin
Aka: Year: 1935 Directed: Kenji Mizoguchi Genre: Drama Runtime: 45 min Country: Japan Language: Japanese (Silent,Benshi Narration) Subtitles: English/Chinese/Japanese/Korean Cast: Isuzu Yamada, Daijirô Natsukawa, Mitsusaburô Ramon, Genichi Fuji , Shin Shibata, Mitsuru Tojo, Junichi Kitamura, Shizuko Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026830/ Synopsis / Plot / Review In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi and Osen, while swindling some Buddhist monks out of their temple treasures. When Kumazawa is arrested, Osen agrees to help Sokichi finance his dream of going to medical school. They live in a humble room, and eventually the only way Osen can find enough money for them is to prostitute herself during the day, without Sokichi knowing.
Japanese movies action Hissatsu Sure Death 2014 Full movies English subtitles Subscribe:http://goo.gl/AhMq3n **************************************************************************** Thanks You All for watching. If you like the video please don't forget to Like, Comment, Favourite and Subscribe!! **************************************************************************** Tags: Profile Movie: Hissatsu!: Sure Death! / Sure Death Romaji: Hissatsu! Japanese: 必殺! Director: Masahisa Sadanaga Writer: Yasushi Inoue (novel), Tatsuo Nogami, Tsuyoshi Yoshida Producer: Yoshiki Nomura, Hisashi Yamanouchi Cinematographer: Shigeru Ishihara Release Date: June 16, 1984 Runtime: 124 min Language: Japanese Country: Japan Plot A group of common merchants in Edo (now Tokyo) in the mid-1800s is really a band of assassins available for hire. Each assassin has his or her own unique killing style. But one assassin is killing other assassins, and the survivors must find out who is doing it before they are all killed. The rogue killer is referred to as "Copper" in the film, a reference to the assassin's gruesome calling card, which is a copper coin left in the mouth of each victim. The ultimate realization that "Copper" commands an army of assassins simply means that the climax involves an orgy of assassinations. Shobei and his thugs are striving to eliminate all rival assassins and monopolize the business throughout Edo. Oriku tries to dissuade Shobei but he refuses to listen, thus she resolves to fight him and recruits fellow killers. The showdown with Shobei and his thugs finally takes place near a shrine...... Cast Makoto Fujita as Mondo Nakamura Kunihiko Mitamura as Hide Izumi Ayukawa as Kayo Kiyoshi Nakajo as Yuji Isuzu Yamada as Oriku Kin Sugai as Sen Nakamura Mari Shiraki as Ritsu Nakamura Gannosuke Ashiya as Masa Megumi Sakita as Otami (as Keiko Hayase) Takao Kataoka
Subscribe to our channel! Asian movies with subtitles! The Song of Home ふるさとの歌 Furusato no Uta Canción del país natal La chanson du pays natal Le chant du pa...
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製作 永田雅一 監督 溝口健二 脚本 依田義賢 原作 溝口健二 撮影 三木稔 美術 今井恵一 / 堀口庄太郎 / 岸中勇次郎 出演 山田五十鈴 / 梅村蓉子 / 志賀廼家弁慶 / 進藤英太郎 / 深見泰三
Mizoguchi's first commercial and critical success is a story of two geisha sisters -- Emekichi, a submissive traditionalist, and the fiercely independent Omocha. Hatching a plan to secure the...
名匠・溝口健二監督が、第二次世界大戦末期に人気の新派俳優総出演で作った芸道もの。時は幕末、若い刀鍛冶の清音は、自らの失敗で恩師に大失態を演じさせてしまう。恩師の娘を狙う男に恩師を殺された清音は、復讐のためにひたすら名刀作りに打ち込む。(「キネマ旬報社」データベースより) 制作会社 松竹 公開 1945年02月08日 上映時間 67分 制作国 日本 白黒 監督 溝口健二 脚本 川口松太郎 撮影 三木滋人 出演 花柳章太郎 / 山田五十鈴 / 大矢市次郎 / 柳永二郎 / 伊志井寛
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Umekichi, uma geixa de Gion, sente-se na obrigação de ajudar Furusawa, seu amante, quando ele vai à falência e abandona a esposa. Omocha, sua irmã mais nova,...
日本映画史に欠くことのできない数々の傑作を世に送り出した名コンビ、溝口健二監督と脚本家・依田義賢による第1作。会社の公金を使い込んだ父のため薬種問屋の店主の妾になったアヤ子は、学費が払えず困っている兄のためある男から金を騙し取る。(「キネマ旬報社」データベースより) 制作会社 第一映画社 公開 1936年05月28日 上映時間 89分 制作国 日本 白黒 監督 溝口健二 脚本 依田義賢 / 藤原忠 原作 溝口健二 撮影 三木稔 美術 久光五郎 / 木川義人 / 岸中勇次郎 衣装 小笹庄治郎 出演 山田五十鈴 / 梅村蓉子 / 大倉千代子 / 大久保清子 / 浅香新八郎 / 志賀廼家弁慶 / 進藤英太郎 / 田中邦男 / 竹川誠一 / 原健作 / 滝沢静子 / 橘光造 / 志村喬
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制作会社 東宝 公開 1956年11月20日 上映時間 117分 制作国 日本 製作 藤本真澄 監督 成瀬巳喜男 脚本 田中澄江 / 井手俊郎 原作 幸田文 撮影 玉井正夫 美術 中古智 音楽 斎藤一郎 出演 田中絹代 / 山田五十鈴 / 高峰秀子 / 岡田茉莉子 / 杉村春子 / 栗島すみ子 / 中北千枝子 / 賀原夏子 / 宮口精二 / 加東大介
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Bearing the burden of her father's debt, a young woman becomes her employer's mistress. But this selfless act threatens to bring about her downfall. ©ARTIFICIAL EYE 2012.
สิงหไกรภพ ( 2524 ) นำแสดงโดย : สุริยา ชินพันธ์ / ดวงพร เอกศาสตร์. สิงหไกรภพ ( 2524 ) นำแสดงโดย : สุริยา ชินพันธ์ / ดวงพร เอกศาสตร์. สิงหไกรภพ ( 2524 ) นำแสดงโดย : สุริยา ชินพันธ์ / ดวงพร เอกศาสตร์. สิงหไกรภพ ( 2524 ) นำแสดงโดย : สุริยา ชินพันธ์ / ดวงพร เอกศาสตร์.
制作会社 東宝映画 公開 1938年09月29日 上映時間 89分 制作国 日本 白黒 製作 森田信義 監督 成瀬巳喜男 脚本 成瀬巳喜男 原作 川口松太郎 撮影 伊藤武夫 美術 久保一雄 音楽 飯田信夫 出演 長谷川一夫 / 山田五十鈴 / 藤原釜足 / 大川平八郎 / 三島雅夫
What is Akira Kurosawa? A report all about Akira Kurosawa for homework/assignment. was a Japanese filmmaker. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. Intro/Outro music: Discovery Hit/Chucky the Construction Worker - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under CC-BY-3.0 Text derived from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa Text to Speech powered by voice-rss.com Images are Public Domain or CC-BY-3.0: Akirakurosawa-onthesetof7samurai-1953-page88.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa 220px-Akirakurosawa-onthesetof7samurai-1953-page88.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa Ran_storyboards.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa Akira_Kurosawa_directing.jpg from http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0 Ran_Akira_Kurosawa.jpg from http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran An'yo-in_Kamakura_Kurosawa_Akira's_Grave.jpg from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An'yo-in_Kamakura_Kurosawa_Akira's_Grave.jpg Cover_of_Akira_Kurosawa's_Something_Like_an_Autobiography.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Like_an_Autobiography MADADAYO.JPG from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa Drunken-Angel-1a.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa Akira_Kurosawa_handprint_in_Cannes.JPG from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akira_Kurosawa_handprint_in_Cannes.JPG
製作 伊藤基彦 監督 成瀬巳喜男 脚本 久保田万太郎 原作 泉鏡花 撮影 中井朝一 美術 平川透徹 音楽 深井史郎 出演 花柳章太郎 / 山田五十鈴 / 柳永二郎 / 大矢市次郎 / 伊志井寛
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To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantag...
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Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week. "The Act of Killing" ... Isuzu Yamada appears as his Lady Macbeth-style wife ... - Jenni Miller.
IMDb 2014-01-08... a remarkable, animalistic performance, as does Isuzu Yamada (Black River) as his ruthless wife.
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Wall Street Journal 2013-07-09... his masterful 1957 samurai adaptation of the Scottish play starring Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada.
The Los Angeles Times 2013-05-22Isuzu Yamada (山田五十鈴, Yamada Isuzu?) (born 5 February 1917) is a Japanese actress on stage and screen whose career has spanned eight decades.
Yamada was born in Osaka with the name Mitsu Yamada. Her father, Kusuo Yamada, was a shinpa stage actor specializing in onnagata roles and her mother, Ritsu, was a geisha. Her family was poor, but under her mother's influence, she began learning nagauta and Japanese traditional dance from the age of six. She debuted as a film actress in 1930 at age twelve, appearing in a Nikkatsu film, Ken o koete, opposite Denjirō Ōkōchi. She soon became one of Nikkatsu's top actresses, but it was her strong portrayals of two rebellious modern girls in Kenji Mizoguchi's Osaka Elegy and Sisters of the Gion in 1936 at the new Daiichi Eiga studio that earned her popularity and critical acclaim. Moving to Shinkō Kinema and then to Toho, she starred in a series of films with Kazuo Hasegawa, such as Mikio Naruse's Tsuruhachi Tsurujirō (1938) and Masahiro Makino's Kinō kieta otoko (1941), that made her a major star.
Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明, Kurosawa Akira?, March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.
Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director in 1943, during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata (a.k.a. Judo Saga). After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel (1948), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshirō Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan. The two men would go on to collaborate on another 15 films.
Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America. The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961). After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work—including his final two epics, Kagemusha (1980) and Ran (1985)—continued to win awards, including the Palme d'Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.
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la lenta lieve brezza scivolava.
E piano poi portava fischiando fra la rete
l'odore delle sete e della spezia.
Leone di Venezia, leone di S. Marco,
l'arma cristiana al varco dell'oriente.
Ai porti di ponente il mare ti ha portato
i carichi di avorio e di broccato.
Le vesti dei mercanti trasudano di ori,
tesori immani portano le stive.
Si affacciano alle rive
le colorate vele,
fragranti di garofano e di pepe.
Trasudano le schiene,
schiantate dal lavoro,
son per terra mirra, oro e incenso.
Sembra che sia nel vento
su fra la palma somma
il grido del sudore e della gomma.
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ma sta sospesa in aria
l'immensa millenaria sua cultura.
I bianchi e la natura
non possono schiacciare
i Buddha, i Chela, gli uomini ed il mare.
Leone di S. Marco, leone del Profeta,
ad est di Creta corre il tuo vangelo.
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il tuo simbolo strano
la spada, e non il libro hai nella mano.
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terra di grazie e mali,
di mitici animali da "bestiari".
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fin sopra all'alta plancia
il fumo della Ganja e dell'incenso.
E quel profumo intenso
rotta di gabbiani:
segno di vani simboli divini.
E gli uccelli marini
additano col volo
la strada del Katai per Marco Polo.