Kazuo Kitamura
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.066 |
| Birthday | 1927-03-11 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | 北村和男, |
1960
The Lovelorn Geisha
6.6/5
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 hi...
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The Lovelorn Geisha
2005
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
6.538/158
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...
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Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.16/550
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!...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1965
Kwaidan
7.7/399
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...
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Kwaidan
1963
High and Low
8.339/953
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by...
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High and Low
1961
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
8.4/184
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,...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1962
Till Tomorow Comes
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Till Tomorow Comes
1963
The Insect Woman
7.4/68
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. Imam...
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The Insect Woman
1992
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
6/1
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 ha...
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Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
1966
The Pornographers
7.3/44
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, H...
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The Pornographers
1968
Neon taiheiki
0/0
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Neon taiheiki
1991
The Shootist 3
0/0
The biggest crisis has come to Matsushita, a shootist who has passed through numerous shrines!
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The Shootist 3
1979
Taro the Dragon Boy
6.5/17
Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a...
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Taro the Dragon Boy
1968
Women and Miso Soup
0/0
Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother.
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Women and Miso Soup
1968
Profound Desires of the Gods
7.4/60
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.
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Profound Desires of the Gods
2005
Henshin
6/1
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Henshin
1969
Only Child
0/0
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Only Child
1979
The Man Who Stole the Sun
7.3/34
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...
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The Man Who Stole the Sun
2008
Beauty
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Beauty
1964
Night Scandal
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Night Scandal
1971
Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai
0/0
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Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai
1991
Heat Wave
5.9/12
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.
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Heat Wave
1964
Yearning
8.1/65
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 bui...
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Yearning
1989
Black Rain
7.5/119
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 b...
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Black Rain
1990
Tales of a Golden Geisha
6.3/13
The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her...
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Tales of a Golden Geisha
1964
Night Scandal in Japan
0/0
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,...
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Night Scandal in Japan
1970
The Militarists
8/1
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The Militarists
2001
Darkness in the Light
5.8/2
A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer...
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Darkness in the Light
1962
Fresh Leaves
0/0
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....
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Fresh Leaves
1967
Impasse
6.4/13
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 a...
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Impasse
1965
The Soundless Cry
8/1
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 i...
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The Soundless Cry
1962
Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
1977
The Wild Daisy
0/0
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...
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The Wild Daisy
1964
The Scent of Incense
7.2/9
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 d...
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The Scent of Incense
1965
That Cute Girl
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That Cute Girl
2003
The Woman Changed Her Clothes at the Bus Stop
0/0
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, Aris...
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The Woman Changed Her Clothes at the Bus Stop
1974
Moeru otoko Nagashima Shigeo: eikō no se-bangō 3
0/0
Documentary on baseball player Shigeo Nagashima
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Moeru otoko Nagashima Shigeo: eikō no se-bangō 3
2006
Japan Sinks
5.5/31
In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with othe...
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Japan Sinks
1964
The Hunter's Diary
4.7/3
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 e...
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The Hunter's Diary
1981
Why Not?
6.4/16
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...
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Why Not?
1959
The Rokumeikan
0/0
TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
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The Rokumeikan
1961
The Rokumeikan
0/0
TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
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The Rokumeikan
2001
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
6.6/48
A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
2006
Island of Light
8/2
Hiromi, attends junior high school in Tokyo. The combination of getting bullied on campus and her fathers death causes her to stop attending school. O...
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Island of Light
1979
White Love
5/1
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 teache...
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White Love
1978
Monument to Holy Service
0/0
A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.
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Monument to Holy Service
1975
Solar Eclipse
6.8/6
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.
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Solar Eclipse
1965
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
6.4/5
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
1982
The Longest Tunnel
0/0
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...
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The Longest Tunnel
1988
Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
0/0
TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV...
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Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
1999
Amateur Singing Contest
5/4
Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur singers along with a confused teenager (Ôtomo) and...
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Amateur Singing Contest
1989
Company Executives
6/4
A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
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Company Executives
1997
Free and Easy 9
7.3/3
Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible Hama-chan. The veter...
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Free and Easy 9
1968
Age of Japanese Guerrillas
0/0
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 vagran...
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Age of Japanese Guerrillas
1974
Touch of Love
0/0
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Touch of Love
1995
Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker
7/1
Documentary about Japanese film director Shohei Imamura.
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Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker
1971
Wakare no uta
0/0
Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.
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Wakare no uta
1966
I'll Never Cry!
0/0
The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in...
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I'll Never Cry!
1964
Warrior of the Wind
6.7/8
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 the...
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Warrior of the Wind
1964
Whirlpool of Flesh
0/0
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...
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Whirlpool of Flesh
1981
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
6.9/49
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1975
Wings of Love
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Wings of Love
1972
Summer Soldiers
6/4
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 c...
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Summer Soldiers
1964
Intentions of Murder
7.1/45
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 o...
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Intentions of Murder
1965
A Chain of Islands
6.4/5
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 uncov...
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A Chain of Islands
1967
Three Seconds to Zero Hour
6.4/5
“I like shady dealings,” purrs undercover superspy Yabuki en route to infiltrating a sadistic, trigger-happy gang of international jewel thieves. Gone...
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Three Seconds to Zero Hour
1963
Ukyunosuke on Patrol
7/1
This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earlier efforts, and concentrates on an excellent stor...
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Ukyunosuke on Patrol
1964
Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
6/1
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...
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Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
2001
Yakuza Ladies 11
0/0
When her husband is betrayed by his fellow yakuza and jailed, his wife takes over and fights to prevent his expulsion from the clan.
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Yakuza Ladies 11
1983
The Geisha
6.4/8
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 w...
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The Geisha
1982
Lake of Illusions
1.5/2
A woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and is an avid runner. She has met and adopted a white do...
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Lake of Illusions
1972
The Pirates of Buban
6.5/6
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...
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The Pirates of Buban
1979
Vengeance Is Mine
7.5/136
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
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Vengeance Is Mine
1972
My Voiceless Friends
0/0
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
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My Voiceless Friends
1988
Green Requiem
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Green Requiem
1969
Vixen
6.2/4
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 swi...
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Vixen
1966
Warm Current
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Warm Current
1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water
6.1/7
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...
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
1989
Festival of Dreams
0/0
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Festival of Dreams
1967
Japan's Longest Day
7.1/28
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies...
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Japan's Longest Day
1968
The Great Villains
4/1
Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a blackmailed singer, and a corrupt lawyer.
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The Great Villains
1969
The Woman Killer
0/0
Japanese crime film.
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The Woman Killer
2000
Chūshingura Urabanashi: Nakazō Kyōran
0/0
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 acto...
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Chūshingura Urabanashi: Nakazō Kyōran
1982
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
6.7/7
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 mo...
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Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
1980
The Detective Journey
0/0
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...
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