Movies: Shima Iwashita
- 1962
Harakiri (1962)
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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 seni...
- 1965
Sword of the Beast (1965)
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Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his ...
- 1969
Double Suicide (1969)
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Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, e...
- 1962
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
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Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her....
- 1991
Heat Wave (1991)
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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....
- 1990
Takeshi: Childhood Days (1990)
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A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay with his family to avoid bombing raids, Takeshi at first treats him well, then begins bullying him too...
- 1986
Yakuza Ladies (1986)
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While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by blood...
- 1984
Fireflies in the North (1984)
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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....
- 1982
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather (1982)
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Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, ...
- 1986
Gonza the Spearman (1986)
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The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their...
- 1961
Killers on Parade (1961)
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A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition....
- 1978
The Demon (1978)
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When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears....
- 1975
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975)
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A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest....
- 1974
Himiko (1974)
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The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history....
- 1960
Late Autumn (1960)
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A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband....
- 1970
The Shadow Within (1970)
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When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him....
- 1994
Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell (1994)
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The seventh movie of the series “Yakuza Ladies” focuses on a wife of a small Osaka family. She risks her life to protect her husband’s family and its members against much larger, more established organizations....
- 1960
Youth in Fury (1960)
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A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insol...
- 1971
Silence (1971)
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Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor....
- 1977
Ballad of Orin (1977)
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A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her....