A group of yakuza is hired to break a strike and an antihero of his former law partners faces Read More »
Tag Archives: Keizô Kawasaki
Sono yo wa wasurenai / A Night to Remember (1962) Kôzaburô Yoshimura, Ayako Wakao, Jirô Tamiya, Keizô Kawasaki
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter embarks Read More »
The Husband Witnessed (1964) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Jirô Tamiya, Keizô Kawasaki
Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. Read More »
Diary of a Mad Old Man / Fûten Rôjin nikki (1962) Keigo Kimura, Sô Yamamura, Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki
Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke. Read More »
Warning from Space (1956) Kôji Shima, Keizô Kawasaki, Toyomi Karita, Bin Yagisawa
UFOs are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Read More »
Aozora Musume / The Blue Sky Maiden (1957) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki, Kenji Sugawara, Comedy, Drama
Ayako Wakao plays good-natured Yuko, the illegitimate daughter of a well-off executive, raised in the country by relatives. Journeying to Tokyo she finds Father’s Western-style house to be a nest of vipers straight out of There’s Always Tomorrow, replete with Terrible Children, a housekeeper who sees all, and a dog named Cal with his own doghouse. But Yuko meets it all with aplomb; she’s interested in one thing only, finding her real, cast off mother.
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