Nobuko Otowa – RareFilm https://rarefilm.net Rare and Selected Movies Archive – Request Rare Films Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:52:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.13 Ryôjû / Hunting Rifle (1961) Heinosuke Gosho, Yoshie Minami, Mariko Okada, Nobuko Otowa https://rarefilm.net/ryoju-hunting-rifle-1961-heinosuke-gosho-yoshie-minami-mariko-okada-nobuko-otowa-drama/ Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:25:19 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=84712 Hunting Rifle (1961)
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband’s child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin’s husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.

Also Known As (AKA): Paixão Destruidora

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File Name : Ryoju AKA Hunting Rifle 1961.mkv
File Size : 0.38 GB / 386.8 MB
Resolution : 720×480
Duration : 01:38:03
Video : AVC, 423 kb/s, 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Audio : AAC, 126 kb/s, 44.1 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: WEBRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English, Spaniah (srt)
Genre: Drama

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]]> Akutô / A Scoundrel (1965) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Kyôko Kishida, Eitarô Ozawa https://rarefilm.net/akuto-a-scoundrel-1965-kaneto-shindo-nobuko-otowa-kyoko-kishida-eitaro-ozawa-drama-romance/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:44:06 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=26910 Akuto (Kaneto Shindo, 1965)
A provincial warlord who has seized power after success in battle is our titular ‘scoundrel’. His court lady is one of those fallen down from her days in the imperial court and he intimidates her to help him seduce another ex-court woman now married to a smaller lord. She is a great beauty and his lust for her consumes him. However, true love cannot be corrupted by power and lust. The resulting tragedy unfolds as the wheel of dharma turns.

Also Known As (AKA): Paixão e Sangue, The Conquest

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File Name : A.Scoundrel.1965.mkv
File Size : 1.91 GB / 1956.56 MB
Resolution : 710×352 @ 840×352
Duration : 01:59:06
Video : AVC, 2 071 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 224 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 1 channel, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama, Romance

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]]> An Inn at Osaka (1954) Heinosuke Gosho, Shûji Sano, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Mito https://rarefilm.net/osaka-no-yado-an-inn-at-osaka-1954-heinosuke-gosho-shuji-sano-nobuko-otowa-mitsuko-mito/ Sat, 05 Oct 2024 17:44:27 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=18508 Osaka no yado (1954)
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.

Also Known As (AKA): Une auberge à Osaka, Ôsaka no yado

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File Name : An Inn at Osaka 1954.mkv
File Size : 1.83 GB / 1877.98 MB
Resolution : 700×472 @ 646×472
Duration : 02:02:06

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English, Spanish, Russian (embedded)
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama

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]]> Autumn Has Already Started / Aki tachinu (1960) Mikio Naruse, Nobuko Otowa, Jun Fujimaki, Kamatari Fujiwara https://rarefilm.net/autumn-has-already-started-aka-aki-tachinu-1960-mikio-naruse-nobuko-otowa-jun-fujimaki-kamatari-fujiwara/ Sat, 03 Aug 2024 10:23:33 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=29287 Autumn Has Already Started AKA Aki tachinu (1960) Mikio Naruse
Single mum (father of child dead) from the country with 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle’s family – wife, male, female teens, run a struggling greengrocer – and lives/ works in local inn. He gets bullied/ fights with local boys, goes to the baths, plays basketball, is befriended by his male cousin and becomes friendly with grade 4 girl who’s the daughter of the innkeeper, who employs his mum and is the longterm mistress of a businessman from another town, who’s the girl’s father and who brings her half sister and brother to meet her but they’re mean to her. Meanwhile the boy’s mother gets friendly with one of the inn’s clients and chucks her job for a trip or something more permanent with him. The young girl takes him shopping, and wants the boy to live with her and her mother, but mother and father refuse so the two kids go to a seaside where he sprains his ankle and they’re late back even though the police get them and they’re in trouble. The boy loses his beetle and tries to get another for the girl for a school project but when he does, she’s moved house with her mother at the urging of her father.

Also Known As (AKA): Approach of Autumn, A Chegada do Outono, À l’approche de l’automne

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File Name : Aki tachinu.1960.mkv
File Size : 1.8 GB / 1844.5 MB
Resolution : 1024×426
Duration : 01:18:58

Quality: BRRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English, Russian, Spanish (embedded)
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama

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]]> Story of a Beloved Wife / Aisai monogatari (1951) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Jûkichi Uno, Ichirô Sugai https://rarefilm.net/story-of-a-beloved-wife-aka-aisai-monogatari-1951-kaneto-shindo-nobuko-otowa-jukichi-uno-ichiro-sugai/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 22:58:56 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=51619 aisai-monogatari-aka-story-of-a-beloved-wife-1951
Shindo’s directorial debut is the fictionalized account of the death of his first wife. Following the breakout of the Pacific War, the Japanese film industry was forcibly downsized. Numazaki, a mediocre screenwriter, faces imminent dismissal. His wife Takako encourages him to seek work in Kyoto. Numazaki fails his aptitude test, which is to write a script for the famous but demanding director Sakaguchi (a veiled reference for Kenji Mizoguchi). Takako offers to support his husband for a year, so that he can hone his craft from scratch.

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File Name : Story.of.a.Beloved.Wife.1951.mkv
File Size : 1.76 GB / 1798.62 MB
Resolution : 706×472 @ 628×472
Duration : 01:37:00

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English, Japanese (embedded)
Country: Japan
Genres: Drama, Romance

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]]> Rise Against the Sword / Abare Gôemon (1966) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Nobuko Otowa, Makoto Satô https://rarefilm.net/rise-against-the-sword-aka-abare-goemon-1966-hiroshi-inagaki-toshiro-mifune-nobuko-otowa-makoto-sato/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:15:15 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=138489
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.

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File Name : Rise Against the Sword 1966.mkv
File Size : 1632.98 MB
Resolution : 706×432 @ 1016×432
Duration : 01:39:48

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English, French (embedded)
Country: Japan
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, History

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]]> Hymn / Sanka (1972) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa https://rarefilm.net/hymn-aka-sanka-1972-kaneto-shindo-nobuko-otowa-tokuko-watanabe-jiro-kawarazaki/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:42:30 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=25407 Sanka (Kaneto Shindo, 1972)
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings. After an unknown intruder probably one of her pupils, who seeks revenge for her cruel behaviour, pours boiling water on the sleeping Shunkin’s face, Sasuke blinds himself in order not to behold her disfigurement. Sasuke’s sacrifice, made in response to Shunkin’s tacit wish, seals their life-long relationship.

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File Name : Sanka.1972.mkv
File Size : 2.52 GB / 2576.12 MB
Resolution : 764×576
Duration : 01:51:39

Quality: WEBRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: Japan
Genres: Drama

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]]> Black Cat / Yabu no naka no kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindô, Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô https://rarefilm.net/black-cat-aka-yabu-no-naka-no-kuroneko-1968-kaneto-shindo-kichiemon-nakamura-nobuko-otowa-kei-sato/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 20:25:50 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=154643
A woman and her daughter-in-law are raped and murdered by samurais during the time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero, to quell what is evidently a ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women, in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.

Also Known As (AKA): O Gato Preto, Les vampires, O Gato Preto do Túmulo, El gato negro, A Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove

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File Name : Yabu no naka no kuroneko 1968.mkv
File Size : 1563.02 MB
Resolution : 720×304
Duration : 01:39:42
Video : AVC, 1 800 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 384 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 1 channel, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded), French (srt)
Country: Japan
Genres: Drama, Horror

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]]> Ninjitsu, Part II AKA Yagyû bugeichô: Sôryû hiken (1958) Hiroshi Inagaki, Kôji Tsuruta, Toshirô Mifune, Nobuko Otowa https://rarefilm.net/ninjitsu-part-ii-aka-yagyu-bugeicho-soryu-hiken-1958-hiroshi-inagaki-koji-tsuruta-toshiro-mifune-nobuko-otowa/ Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:10:35 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=145798
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them. In Part II, the search for the scrolls continues.

Also Known As (AKA): Secret Scrolls, Part II, Los tres tesoros, Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu – Part II

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File Name : Ninjitsu 2 1958.avi
File Size : 1493.36 MB
Resolution : 720×304
Duration : 01:40:40
Video : MPEG-4 Visual, 1 680 kb/s, 25.000 FPS
Audio : AC-3, 384 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 6 channels, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (srt)
Country: Japan
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

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]]> A Room for Rent AKA Kashima ari (1959) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Nobuko Otowa, Ikio Sawamura https://rarefilm.net/a-room-for-rent-aka-kashima-ari-1959-yuzo-kawashima-furanki-sakai-nobuko-otowa-ikio-sawamura/ Fri, 24 Jul 2020 21:07:47 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=137518
The story follows the various tenants living in a multi-room tenement on a hill overlooking the city of Osaka.

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File Name : Room for Let 1959.mkv
File Size : 1726.15 MB
Resolution : 716×344 @ 848×344
Duration : 01:52:21
Video : AVC, 1 950 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 192 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 1 channel, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (srt), Japanese (embedded)
Country: Japan
Genres: Comedy, Drama

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]]> Mother AKA Haha (1963) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Haruko Sugimura, Homizu Aratani https://rarefilm.net/mother-1963-kaneto-shindo-nobuko-otowa-haruko-sugimura-homizu-aratani/ Tue, 02 Jun 2020 21:50:30 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=113029
Tamiko is a divorced mother with a seriously ill son, struggling to save him and give both a sense of their existence. She lives with her mother and brother, but will marry a man older than her. The dramatic shadow of Hiroshima bombs is always hovering over the fate of the characters.

Also Known As (AKA): Madre

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File Name : Mother 1963.avi
File Size : 1496.24 MB
Resolution : 640×480
Duration : 01:40:49

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Drama

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]]> My Way AKA Waga michi (1974) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Rokkô Toura https://rarefilm.net/waga-michi-my-way-1974-kaneto-shindo-nobuko-otowa-taiji-tonoyama-rokko-toura-drama/ Wed, 27 May 2020 23:28:29 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=52775 waga-michi-aka-my-way-1974
Based on a true story, an elderly women resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband’s dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.

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File Name : My Way.avi
File Size : 1844.32 MB
Resolution : 640×480
Duration : 02:10:01

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (srt), Japanese (idx/sub files)
Genre: Drama

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]]> Ditch AKA Dobu (1954) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Jûkichi Uno https://rarefilm.net/dobu-ditch-1954-kaneto-shindo-nobuko-otowa-taiji-tonoyama-jukichi-uno-drama/ Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:30:55 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=51424 dobu-1954
Toku, a factory worker (Taiji Tonoyama) gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his friend Pin-chan (Jukichi Uno). The two men try to get rid of her but then let her stay when she gives them money. Tsuru tells the people of the village that she lost her job due to a strike, then was robbed of her severance pay, then sold to a brothel in Tsuchiura. She ran away with a friend from Kawasaki. Toku and Pin-chan sell her to a geisha house and spend the money. She is thrown out. The owner demands his money back. Tsuru earns the money to pay their debt by working as a prostitute outside the station. The other prostitutes beat her. She fends them off with a policeman’s revolver and is then shot dead by the police.

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File Name : Dobu 1954.mkv
File Size : 1735.25 MB
Resolution : 712×480 @ 648×480
Duration : 01:51:16

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English, Russian, Japanese (embedded)
Genre: Drama

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]]> Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959) Kaneto Shindô, Jûkichi Uno, Nobuko Otowa, Harold Conway https://rarefilm.net/daigo-fukuryu-maru-lucky-dragon-no-5-1959-kaneto-shindo-jukichi-uno-nobuko-otowa-harold-conway-drama/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:41:52 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=25220 Daigo Fukuryu-Maru (Kaneto Shindo, 1959)
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru (“Lucky Dragon No. 5”) sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship’s navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.

Also Known As (AKA): Daigo Fukuryu-Maru

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Japanese | DVDRip | AVI | XviD, 1736 Kbps | 720×304 | 23.976 fps | 1.47 GB
Audio: AC-3, 224 Kbps | 1 channel | 48.0 KHz | Runtime: 01:46:41 minutes | Subtitles: English, Spanish (srt)
Genre: Drama

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]]> Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970) Kaneto Shindô, Daijirô Harada, Nobuko Otowa, Keiko Torii https://rarefilm.net/live-today-die-tomorrow-1970-kaneto-shindo-daijiro-harada-nobuko-otowa-keiko-torii/ Fri, 07 Dec 2018 22:27:37 +0000 http://rarefilm.net/?p=113009
After leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku, a post-war Japanese government work program which involves taking almost an entire high school graduating class from the countryside to Tokyo to work for a fruit company. Some terrible things happened to his family in the past and that explains why Michio came later to have perpetrated so many killings.

Also Known As (AKA): Hadaka no jûkyû-sai, Vive hoy muere mañana, Vivre aujourd’hui mourir demain

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File Name : Live Today Die Tomorrow.avi
File Size : 1372.68 MB
Resolution : 704×304
Duration : 01:59:46

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Drama

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