Movies: Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

  • 1995
    Whisper of the Heart

    Whisper of the Heart (1995)

    Whisper of the Heart

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    Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'....

    Whisper of the Heart
  • 1972
    Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

    Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)

    Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

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    In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the...

    Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
  • 1963
    The Insect Woman

    The Insect Woman (1963)

    The Insect Woman

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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....

    The Insect Woman
  • 1984
    Fireflies in the North

    Fireflies in the North (1984)

    Fireflies in the North

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    Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory....

    Fireflies in the North
  • 1967
    A Man Vanishes

    A Man Vanishes (1967)

    A Man Vanishes

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    A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from the list, someone who had seemed to disappear from the face of the earth due to embezzlement from his com...

    A Man Vanishes
  • 1964
    Intentions of Murder

    Intentions of Murder (1964)

    Intentions of Murder

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    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....

    Intentions of Murder
  • 1966
    Woman of the Lake

    Woman of the Lake (1966)

    Woman of the Lake

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    A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple....

    Woman of the Lake
  • 1965
    A Trap

    A Trap (1965)

    A Trap

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    When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is ...

    A Trap
  • 1981
    Why Not?

    Why Not? (1981)

    Why Not?

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    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 political and social upheaval of the time, and culminate...

    Why Not?
  • 1970
    The Summit of Mt. Fuji

    The Summit of Mt. Fuji (1970)

    The Summit of Mt. Fuji

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    The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese archipelago, but the task will not be easy....

    The Summit of Mt. Fuji
  • 1969
    Kanto Woman Infamy

    Kanto Woman Infamy (1969)

    Kanto Woman Infamy

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    Kanto Woman Infamy
  • 1969
    Ruthless Gambler

    Ruthless Gambler (1969)

    Ruthless Gambler

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    Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young man who heard that his former boss was killed is imprisoned by slashing his family's minions, and his...

    Ruthless Gambler
  • 1968
    Where did Sharaku go?

    Where did Sharaku go? (1968)

    Where did Sharaku go?

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    Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out the true identity of Sharaku, who disappeared after about 150 portraits of actors he created came o...

    Where did Sharaku go?
  • 1964
    The Spying Sorceress

    The Spying Sorceress (1964)

    The Spying Sorceress

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    Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in connection with the plot to overthrow the shogunate....

    The Spying Sorceress
  • 1972
    The Pirates of Buban

    The Pirates of Buban (1972)

    The Pirates of Buban

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    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 come to meet those men in order to understand their p...

    The Pirates of Buban
  • 1969
    The Girl I Abandoned

    The Girl I Abandoned (1969)

    The Girl I Abandoned

    01969HD

    Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a f...

    The Girl I Abandoned
  • 1969
    Gateway to Glory

    Gateway to Glory (1969)

    Gateway to Glory

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    A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy....

    Gateway to Glory
  • 1968
    Outlaw: Black Dagger

    Outlaw: Black Dagger (1968)

    Outlaw: Black Dagger

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    A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the...

    Outlaw: Black Dagger
  • 1964
    Female Ninja Magic

    Female Ninja Magic (1964)

    Female Ninja Magic

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    In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blood descendents would end, he impregnates one of five Shinano female ninja with the seed of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in hopes of continuing the bloodline. Pr...

    Female Ninja Magic
  • 1969
    The Falcon Fighters

    The Falcon Fighters (1969)

    The Falcon Fighters

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    In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps trains new volunteers from the Army's Infantry to become Japan's next generation of fighter pilots at...

    The Falcon Fighters