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Tag Archives: Taiji Tonoyama
My Way AKA Waga michi (1974) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Rokkô Toura
Based on a true story, an elderly women resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband’s dead body Read More »
Ditch AKA Dobu (1954) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Jûkichi Uno
Toku, a factory worker (Taiji Tonoyama) gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), who then follows him home. Read More »
Tokyo Pop (1988) Fran Rubel Kuzui, Carrie Hamilton, Diamond Yukai, Taiji Tonoyama
Young female rock singer is not appreciated by her band, gets postcard from Japan saying “wish you were here”. Read More »
Wolf (1955) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Sanae Takasugi, Taiji Tonoyama
A few years after the surrender of Japan in the Second World War. Read More »
18 Who Cause a Storm (1963) Yoshishige Yoshida, Tamotsu Hayakawa, Yoshiko Kayama, Taiji Tonoyama, Drama
A shipyard worker gets an offer of free lodging in the company seaside rest house. Upon arriving there, he finds out that he also has to take care of a flock of undisciplined youngsters. Read More »
Hadaka no shima / The Naked Island (1960) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Drama
Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Read More »
Ningen / Human (1962) Kaneto Shindô, Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô, Drama
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
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