Movies: Tamasaburo Bando
- 1991
Yumeji (1991)
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Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past....
- 1988
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988)
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The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo....
- 1979
Demon Pond (1979)
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Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their story is of revenge, tragedy, and the power of real love. A classical tale which translates wonderfully to film....
- 1995
The Tale of Himeji Castle (1995)
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A young samurai dares to approach a castle mistress as he searches for an escaped falcon, a crime punishable by death, but escapes with his life. He is forced to return to the castle by the dying light, but the mistress has become fascinated with him...
- 1992
Gekashitsu (1992)
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Melodrama about a woman refusing surgery....
- 1993
Yearning (1993)
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Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this soft-focused romance about love and obligation, based on a novel by Kafu Nagai. Set during the Meiji p...
- 1995
The Written Face (1995)
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In Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in the West, but tries to capture her significance. He need not stick close to his model, but draws far...
- 2004
Ume Goyomi (2004)
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The main story concerns the rivalry between Adakichi and Yonehachi, two geisha of the Fukagawa district of Edo, for the love of the handsome and gentle Tanjirô. This situation gives rise to a number of highly entertaining scenes when, for example, in...
- 1994
Nastazja (1994)
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Andrzej Wajda's Japanese-language film based on the last chapter of Dostoevsky's Idiot, in which Prince Myshkin and Rogozhin return to the past in a conversation over the dead body of Nastassya Filippovna. Bando Tamasaburo, regarded as one of the mos...