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7.3

♡ 7

Momoko Andô Director

Miyoko Asada as Hisako, Professor Makabe's Niece

Masahiro Higashide as Karaoke Clerk

Masahiko Tsugawa as Professor Makabe

Midori Kiuchi as Yukiko Kataoka, Shozo's Wife

Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him, which led her to lose her job. Now, she has nowhere to go. Sawa finds elderly people in trouble and gets involved in their lives. Meeting them, Sawa's own wounds start to heal.

Crazed Fruit

1956

7.2

♡ 7

100%

82%

older woman younger man relationship

based on novel or book

Romance

sibling rivalry

Kô Nakahira Director

Mie Kitahara as Eri

Zenji Yamada as Fisherman

Masumi Okada as Hirosawa Frank

Masahiko Tsugawa as Takishima Haruji

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.

Garasu no naka no sho-jo

1988

4.8

♡ 1

77%

Romance

Masanobu Deme Director

Tôru Minegishi as Eto

Yôko Asaji as Michiyo Hirota

Hisako Manda as Satoko Okinaka

Masahiko Tsugawa as Sugitaro Okinaka

A girl from a wealthy family falls in love with a working-class boy.

Good-for-Nothing

1960

6.8

♡ 3

91%

Yoshishige Yoshida Director

Masahiko Tsugawa as Jun

Masao Mishima as Kensaku Kitajima

Isao Sasaki as Singer

Yûsuke Kawazu as Toshio

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.

Amai yoru no hate

1961

6.8

♡ 4

Yoshishige Yoshida Director

Shinichirô Minami as

Sumiko Hidaka as Hisako Noshimoto

Masahiko Tsugawa as Jiro Tezuka

Takamaru Sasaki as Tokkuzaburo Oka

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

Untamed Woman

1957

7.4

♡ 7

based on novel or book

taisho

taishō period

Mikio Naruse Director

Eijirô Tôno as

Masahiko Tsugawa as

Hideko Takamine as Oshima

Mitsuko Miura as Oyu, her rival

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.

Heaven and Earth

1990

6.8

♡ 5

Haruki Kadokawa Director

Masatô Ibu as Akida

Stuart Whitman as Narrator

Masahiko Tsugawa as Takeda Shingen

Hironobu Nomura as Taro Yoshinobu

Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry. Younger and less brutal, Kagetora must find the strength to be as brutal as his opponent, but at what cost?

Black Widow Business

2016

6.2

♡ 2

Yasuo Tsuruhashi Director

Kimiko Yo as Eiko Segawa

Shunsuke Kazama as Hiroshi

Masahiko Tsugawa as Kiharu Funayama

Masatô Ibu as Sojiro Takeuchi

Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marriage, Kozo Nakase suddenly collapses and dies. Kozo Nakase leaves everything to Sayako. The rest of his family are left out of his will including his daughter Tomomi. Tomomi hires a private investigator, Honda, to find out more about Sayoko.

Supermarket Woman

1996

7.3

♡ 10

based on novel or book

Jûzô Itami Director

Masahiko Tsugawa as Gorô Kobayashi

Takashi Naha as Hikkoshi Kazoku

Hideko Hara as Pâto-san

Shingo Yanagisawa as Seinikubu Joshu

A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.

Crest of Betrayal

1994

6.4

♡ 4

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Kôichi Satô as Iemon Tamiya

Masahiko Tsugawa as Kuranosuke Ôishi

Saki Takaoka as Oiwa

Hiroyuki Sanada as Takuminokami Asano

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil.

Nagai sanpo

2006

7.2

♡ 5

96%

Eiji Okuda Director

Masahiko Tsugawa as

Kiwako Harada as

Ken Ogata as Matsutaro Yasuda

Saki Takaoka as Sachi's mother

A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a country town. There he forms a relationship with a neglected little neighborhood girl.

Tales of a Golden Geisha

1990

6.4

♡ 4

Jûzô Itami Director

Yôichi Ueda as Camera man

Akira Takarada as Inukai

Masahiko Tsugawa as Mondo Suzuki

Eijirô Tôno as Prime Minister

Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundrels who don’t deserve it.

A Last Note

1995

6.8

♡ 3

86%

Kaneto Shindô Director

Yutaka Matsushige as Daigoro

Mitsuko Baishô as Naoko Yazawa

Masahiko Tsugawa as Saburo Morimoto

Nobuko Otowa as Toyoko Yanagawa

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past

Station to Heaven

1984

7.0

♡ 1

Masanobu Deme Director

Sayuri Yoshinaga as Kayo Hayashiba

Tomokazu Miura as Kouichi Hashimoto

Masahiko Tsugawa as Kouji Fukumi

Nobuyoshi Araki as Photographer

From a true incident that happened in 1960's Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on a tangled web of murder and deceit encountered by a beautiful woman, Kayo after her abusive husband is murdered.

Night and Fog in Japan

1960

6.8

♡ 2

43%

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Masahiko Tsugawa as Ôta

Hiroshi Akutagawa as Prof. Udagawa

Miyuki Kuwano as Reiko Harada

Kei Satô as Sakamaki

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.

The Sun's Burial

1960

6.9

♡ 3

60%

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Yûsuke Kawazu as Gang member

Isao Sasaki as New gang member Takeshi

Masahiko Tsugawa as Shin, leader of gang

Ichirô Nagai as The 'lance'

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

Kakera

2009

6.4

♡ 5

67%

Momoko Andô Director

Hikari Mitsushima as Haru

Eriko Nakamura as Riko

Masahiko Tsugawa as Tadashi Tanaka

Rino Katase as Toko

A college student's relationship is going nowhere until she meets a bisexual medical artist who makes prosthetic body parts.

Sansho the Bailiff

1954

8.3

♡ 37

100%

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Shinobu Araki as Sadaya

Akitake Kôno as Taro

Masahiko Tsugawa as Young Zushio

Yoshiaki Hanayagi as Zushiô

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

Tora-San Goes French

1973