Kazuo Kitamura

AKA: 北村和男

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1927-03-11

Tokyo, Japan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {100}

1960-07-12 6.3

The Lovelorn Geisha

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers hims ...

Genre :Drama

Tokugawa Ieyasu

2005-09-17 6.544

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take plac ...

Genre :Action

Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka

1970-01-26 7.1

Tora! Tora! Tora!

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. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lea ...

Genre :War, History, Drama

Tomomori (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

1965-01-06 7.7

Kwaidan

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is ...

Genre :Horror, Fantasy, Drama

Third Reporter

1963-03-01 8.343

High and Low

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Kitagô Sôchô

1961-01-28 8.4

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different h ...

Genre :War, Drama, History

1962-02-10 0

As Long as There's Tomorrow

Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attempted surgery and years of struggle, her condition proves permanent. Growing up, she faces stigma and ...

Genre :

Chuji

1963-11-16 7.2

The Insect Woman

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 To ...

Genre :Drama

1992-05-22 6

Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1

There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He has his son and daughter in tow and works hard for t ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Doctor

1966-03-12 7.15

The Pornographers

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru share ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

1968-04-13 0

Neon taiheiki

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1991-12-13 0

The Shootist 3

The biggest crisis has come to Matsushita, a shootist who has passed through numerous shrines! ...

Genre :Action

(voice)

1979-03-17 6.5

Taro the Dragon Boy

Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a young boy who has to make a voyage to a distant la ...

Genre :Fantasy, Animation, Family, Adventure

1968-07-04 0

Women and Miso Soup

Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother. ...

Genre :Drama

Kariya

1968-11-22 7.3

Profound Desires of the Gods

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill. ...

Genre :Drama

Hidetaka Doumoto

2005-11-19 6

Henshin

Henshin tells the story of Junichi, a young boy who is forced to go through a life-saving brain transplantation. By his side, his girlfriend Kei is watching over him all the time. Junichi seems to rec ...

Genre :Romance

1969-05-06 0

Only Child

Genre :Drama

Tanaka

1979-10-06 7.3

The Man Who Stole the Sun

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller, Action

2008-05-10 0

Beauty

Set in a small Nagano village in the 1930s, the film follows Hanji, a young boy captivated by a local kabuki performance. Inspired by Yukio, Hanji learns kabuki with Utako. As they grow, they become s ...

Genre :Drama

Kamekichi Enjo

1964-07-11 0

Night Scandal

Genre :Drama

1971-03-20 0

Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai

Genre :

Kosugi

1991-02-09 5.6

Heat Wave

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Mr. Morizono

1964-01-15 8.1

Yearning

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Shigematsu Shizuma

1989-05-13 7.5

Black Rain

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of t ...

Genre :Drama, History

Tsurumaru

1990-06-02 6.063

Tales of a Golden Geisha

Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundrels who don’t deserve it. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Aoyama

1964-03-12 0

Night Scandal in Japan

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her sweetie are tur ...

Genre :Drama

Yamanaka

1970-09-11 8

The Militarists

Genre :Drama, War

Takeo Nagata

2001-02-17 5.8

Darkness in the Light

A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer of 1994 to find himself the prime suspect in the b ...

Genre :Drama

1962-10-06 0

Fresh Leaves

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr. Mazaki, the new mathematics teacher. ...

Genre :Drama

Fujikida

1967-12-01 6.4

Impasse

Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by artificial insemination. ...

Genre :Drama

1965-01-30 8

The Soundless Cry

Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies aft ...

Genre :Drama

1962-08-05 0

Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko

1962 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

Narrator (voice)

1977-07-09 0

The Wild Daisy

Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections ensue as Tamiko is older than Masao, and the two cannot ...

Genre :Drama

Keisuke

1964-05-24 7.2

The Scent of Incense

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble. ...

Genre :Drama

1965-03-31 0

That Cute Girl

Genre :

Sasaki

2003-03-15 0

The Woman Changed Her Clothes at the Bus Stop

A woman in a bright green coat, Mizue (Toda Naho), gets off the bus at Shikaoi Town in Hokkaido. She has followed her former salsa dance partner, Arisaka (Endo Kenichi), to his hometown. Arisaka, who ...

Genre :

Narrator (voice)

1974-12-14 0

Moeru otoko Nagashima Shigeo: eikō no se-bangō 3

Documentary on baseball player Shigeo Nagashima ...

Genre :Documentary

Minister of Justice

2006-07-15 5.5

Japan Sinks

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with other countries to take refugees, while scientists str ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Science Fiction

Kentaro Hatanaka

1964-04-19 3.8

The Hunter's Diary

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record ...

Genre :Thriller

Koide

1981-01-08 6.1

Eijanaika

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the politi ...

Genre :Drama

1959-07-09 0

The Rokumeikan

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima. ...

Genre :Drama

1961-12-01 0

The Rokumeikan

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima. ...

Genre :Drama

Taro

2001-11-03 6.5

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers. ...

Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Romance

Taizo Suzuki

2006-06-24 8

Island of Light

Hiromi, attends junior high school in Tokyo. The combination of getting bullied on campus and her fathers death causes her to stop attending school. One day she is invited by her online friend, Kenmun ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Yoichiro Yamashita

1979-08-03 5

White Love

Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language teacher Ken. Finally she found her father in Madrid and ...

Genre :Romance

1975-09-06 6.8

Solar Eclipse

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot. ...

Genre :Drama

1978-09-23 0

Monument to Holy Service

A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon. ...

Genre :Drama, History

1965-04-10 6.4

Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money. ...

Genre :Drama

1982-10-16 0

The Longest Tunnel

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura ...

Genre :Drama

1988-06-11 0

Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi in 1978 and released theatrically by Office ...

Genre :TV Movie

1999-01-15 5

Amateur Singing Contest

Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur singers along with a confused teenager (Ôtomo) and a 40-year-old father of four (Bito). ...

Genre :Comedy

1989-06-10 6

Company Executives

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away. ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

1997-09-06 7.3

Free and Easy 9

Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible Hama-chan. The veteran employee decides to find his boss, a divorced f ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Director of Beheiron

1968-08-30 0

Age of Japanese Guerrillas

Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for vagrancy in Shinjuku and thrown in jail. Helped by a yak ...

Genre :Comedy

Yujiro Aoki

1974-11-02 0

Touch of Love

Genre :Drama, Romance

Himself

1995-04-12 7

Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker

Documentary about Japanese film director Shohei Imamura. ...

Genre :Documentary

1971-07-03 0

Wakare no uta

Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1966-10-29 0

I'll Never Cry!

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by find ...

Genre :Drama

Yôroku Nabari

1964-01-15 6.7

Warrior of the Wind

A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find themselves at the center of an intrigue surrounding t ...

Genre :History, Drama

Kohei Otani

1964-10-21 0

Whirlpool of Flesh

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending t ...

Genre :Drama

Hamaguchi

1981-12-19 6.946

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership. ...

Genre :Action, Romance

1975-04-26 0

Wings of Love

Japanese drama film. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Tachikawa

1972-03-25 6

Summer Soldiers

During the Vietnam War, an American G.I. deserts his base in Japan and escapes to Tokyo with the help of his Japanese bar hostess girlfriend. In the capital he gets involved with an anti-war organizat ...

Genre :Drama, War

Seiichiro Takahashi

1964-06-28 6.99

Intentions of Murder

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life. ...

Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1965-05-26 6.4

A Chain of Islands

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncovers a black market scheme involving counterfeit mo ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Sugiyama

1967-10-21 6.4

Three Seconds to Zero Hour

“I like shady dealings,” purrs undercover superspy Yabuki en route to infiltrating a sadistic, trigger-happy gang of international jewel thieves. Gone renegade from the shadowy espionage bureau that h ...

Genre :Action, Thriller, Crime

1963-11-20 7

Ukyunosuke on Patrol

This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earlier efforts, and concentrates on an excellent story with expert fighting. Sena Denemon is the rarest ...

Genre :Action, History

1964-03-12 6

Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut

In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to avenge his father's death continues. His discovery of a mysterious note written by his father, Inspector ...

Genre :Action, History

2001-07-28 6

Yakuza Ladies: Companions in Hell

When her husband is betrayed by his fellow yakuza and jailed, his wife takes over and fights to prevent his expulsion from the clan. 14th installment of the 16-film franchise. ...

Genre :

1983-09-10 5.5

The Geisha

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fab ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, War

Onishi

1982-09-11 1.333

Lake of Illusions

A free-spirited girl living in a Japanese province spends her time working in a brothel and running with her dog. When her routine is shattered she gets on a path of hate and self discovery. ...

Genre :Drama

1972-01-01 6.5

The Pirates of Buban

By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the control of cruel & armed pirates. Imamura will com ...

Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Shigomi Deike

1979-04-21 7.5

Vengeance Is Mine

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1972-04-29 0

My Voiceless Friends

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families. ...

Genre :Drama

1988-08-20 0

Green Requiem

Genre :Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction

1969-10-18 6.4

Vixen

Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swindle him out of two million yen for alleged rape b ...

Genre :Drama

Dr. Hashizume

1966-04-29 0

Warm Current

Genre :Drama

1953-11-23 6.1

An Inlet of Muddy Water

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. ...

Genre :History, Drama

1989-06-24 0

Festival of Dreams

Genre :

Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section Chief

1967-08-03 7.2

Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army ...

Genre :Drama, History, War

Attorney Okano

1968-02-24 3

The Great Villains

Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a blackmailed singer, and a corrupt lawyer. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1969-03-08 0

The Woman Killer

Japanese crime film. ...

Genre :

2000-12-21 0

Chūshingura Urabanashi: Nakazō Kyōran

Nakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the Kabuki world, and worries about his future as an actor. ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Aladdin (voice)

1982-03-13 6.6

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

This film stays very faithful to the original down to the smallest details, save for the kangaroo-rat that suddenly appears twenty minutes into the movie and subsequently follows Aladdin around, servi ...

Genre :Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

1980-10-04 0

The Detective Journey

A comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they become involved in by chance. Shosuke Ikashima and Ryuji Kabaya, who repeatedly screw things up, encounter ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Hiroshi Aoki

1965-08-25 0

The White Rose of Hong Kong

Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong Kong, where personal ties and painful secrets unravel a complex web of betrayal. As love, family, an ...

Genre :Thriller, Drama, Crime

1963-07-27 0

At the Side of the Bridge 4

Genre :Drama

1983-08-06 0

Female Doctor in the Surgical Ward

Izumi Kayo, who works as a surgeon at a university medical school affiliated hospital in the Sanin region, is in love with Katano Shuji, a lecturer who is taking an elite course at the same first surg ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Shima Sakon

1971-01-03 0

Haru no Sakamichi

The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori. ...

Genre :Drama

Hiromoto Oe

1966-01-02 0

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

The chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late Heian and early Kamakura general of the Minamoto clan of Japan. Yoshitsune was the ninth son of Minamoto no ...

Genre :Drama

1964-01-05 7.5

Akō Rōshi

"Ako Roshi" is a group of 47 former retainers of Lord Asano. Lord Asano was forced to commit suicide after attempting to kill Lord Kira. Once the retainers hear about their Lord's death, they sacrific ...

Genre :Drama

Utsuki Kageyoshi

1963-04-07 7

Life of a Flower

The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke. ...

Genre :Drama

Shimada Daishin

2001-04-03 9.7

Churasan

The 64th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Churasan, a story of a young woman, Kohagura Eri, who was born in Kohamajima Island, Okinawa on May 15, 1972, the day when Okinawa was returned to Japan from the ...

Genre :Drama, Family, Comedy

Ieyasu Tokugawa

2003-01-05 8.3

Musashi

Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing Toyotomi forces, but eludes the enemy as they hunt ...

Genre :Drama

1996-04-18 0

I Miss Age 35

Akemi's marriage was the kind that no one could complain about. Akemi had perfect kids and a great husband. Everyone was happy. Until her husband, Eiji, starts having an affair, and a cruel fate calls ...

Genre :Drama

1969-10-21 0

Brother

The drama depicts the lives and loves of people living in three different environments: a family consisting of two brothers and their parents; a family with a father and a daughter who are not well or ...

Genre :Drama, Family

1987-01-07 0

Iki no Iiyatsu

Set in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a stubborn, old-fashioned master and his hot-tempered, brash apprentice growing up among the warm-hearted people ...

Genre :Drama

1975-10-05 0

Oretachi no Tabi

A milestone in Japanese teen drama, representing the 1970s. It questions the meaning of life, worries, and joys. ...

Genre :Drama

1976-01-08 0

Daihijôsen

An action detective drama depicting the activities of detectives belonging to a fictional department called the Fifth Investigation Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, commonly known as " ...