Hisashi Igawa — Actor (81)
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Where Spring Comes Late (1970)
家族 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 8.4 9 ratings
山田洋次 actor: 倍赏千惠子 / 井川比佐志 …
other title: 家族 / Kazoku …
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.
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Dodesukaden (1970)
どですかでん WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.2 75 ratings
黑泽明 actor: 头师佳孝 / 菅井琴 …
other title: 电车狂 / どですかでん …
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.
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Tora-san's Runaway (1970)
男はつらいよ 望郷篇 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 8.5 8 ratings
Yoji Yamada actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho …
other title: 寅次郎的故事5：望乡篇 / 男はつらいよ 望郷篇 …
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.
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Harakiri (1962)
切腹 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 9.4 405 ratings
小林正树 actor: 仲代达矢 / 石滨朗 …
other title: 하라키리 / 切腹 …
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.
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Dandelion (1985)
タンポポ
★ 8.3 197 ratings
伊丹十三 actor: 山崎努 / 宫本信子 …
other title: 蒲公英 / タンポポ …
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
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Boiling Point (1990)
3-4X10月
★ 6.9 50 ratings
Takeshi Kitano actor: Takeshi Kitano / 小野昌彦 …
other title: 3–4x10月 / 3-4X10月 …
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
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Have a Song on Your Lips (2015)
くちびるに歌を WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.3 65 ratings
三木孝浩 actor: 新垣结衣 / 木村文乃 …
other title: 唇上之歌 / くちびるに歌を …
Yuri Kashiwaga was once known as a genius pianist. One day, she returns to her hometown in Goto Islands from Tokyo. There, she begins to work as a temporary teacher at a middle school and advisor for the school chorus. The chorus aims to take part at a competition. Yuri gives the members of the chorus members an assignment. She instructs them to write a letter with the title of “To myself 15 years later.” The 15-year-old boys and girls write about their secrets and worries.