Sonosuke Sawamura — Actor (8)

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The Curse of the Ghost (1969)
四谷怪談 お岩の亡霊 IMDb TMDB
other title: 四谷怪談 お岩の亡霊 / 四谷怪談:阿岩的亡靈 …
About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella making. Having hired ruffians to make him look like a superior swordsman, he arranges for himself the opportunity of a profitable marriage. He hires the half-blind masseur Takuetsu (Sawamura Sounosuke) to seduce or rape his wife (Kyoko Mikage), so that she can be divorced or killed for adultery. But the masseur takes pity & informs Oiwa of her husband's horrid plot. Assisted by the merchant's daughter he intends to marry, Iyemon disfigures his wife attempting to poison her so he can marry higher. There's a lovingly gruesome sequence as she combs blad patches into her hair, kneeling deformed at her mirror, weeping with bitterness. She eventually cuts her own throat, swearing revenge.

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The Pirates (1960)
海賊八幡船 IMDb TMDB
other title: 海賊八幡船
Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships) based on the Seto Inland Sea during the Warring Period (Sengoku-jidai)sailed to China, Korea, Luzon, and Siam under the Hachiman banner. A battle for supremacy of the seas begins when a strange old shipwreck survivor is brought to Sakai where he divulges a secret that can change the course of history.One of the most literate and well-written films from Toei, this is an exciting tale of swashbuckling samurai on the high seas!

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Lefty Fencer (1969)
女左膳 濡れ燕片手斬り IMDb TMDB
other title: 女左膳 濡れ燕片手斬り / Lady Sazen and the Drenched Shallow Sword
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...

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無宿者 (1964)
Douban
other title: Mushuku mono
5年前、笹子峠で父を惨殺され、その形見のドスを持って犯人を探して旅をする一本松と、同じく5年前、笹子峠で御用金を持って姿を消した父を探す黒木弥一郎。佐渡金山で二人が出会い、真犯人を探し出していくまでを描いたヤクザものの時代劇アクション。スピード感と映像美が秀逸な三隅監督の傑作。

Movie

夫妇善哉 (1955)
夫婦善哉 Douban
★ 7.6 5 ratings
other title: 夫婦善哉 / Meoto zenzai
位于大阪某个繁华路段,经营着一家小有名气的化妆品商店。老板维康伊兵卫(小堀诚 饰)中风病倒,经营的重任不得不交给浪荡无才的儿子柳吉(森繁久弥 饰)。适逢妻子也因病返回娘家休养,无拘无束的柳吉流连花街柳巷,却在此意外结识了命中注定的冤家蝶子(淡岛千景 饰)。蝶子是曾根崎新地备受著名的艺妓,原本心高气傲的她与柳吉坠入爱河。他们的交往自然不会得到柳吉家人的支持,百无一用只会享受生活的柳吉自然没有赚钱的本领,蝶子为此只能抛头露面,赶着辛劳的工作,与此同时和不得不面对爱人一次次的背叛和命运的磨练重压。这真是一段百年不遇的孽缘…… 本片根据织田作之助的同名原作改编。