Movies: Makoto Akatsuka
- 2002
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
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Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautifu...
- 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...
- 1979
Nomugi Pass (1979)
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The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without res...
- 2004
The Hidden Blade (2004)
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Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest...
- 2008
Kabei: Our Mother (2008)
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Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two...
- 1971
Wet Sand in August (1971)
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Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end....
- 1990
Nozomi Witches (1990)
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Nozomi is a former actress who moves back to Japan from New Zealand. Upon arriving, she meets her fellow high school student neighbor Ryotaro Shiba, who decides to join the high school boxing club. Adapted from Toshio's Nobe manga, with the same titl...
- 1991
Kim's War (1991)
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After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the press inside and explains why he was driven to his crime....
- 1976
The Village (1976)
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This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and, being that they are farmers and always busy and not rich, question the wisdom and feasibility of such...
- 1991
Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit (1991)
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When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his many subordinates scattered all over the country to live out the rest of their lives. First, he targ...
- 1980
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1 (1980)
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A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE...
- 1973
Kôkôsei burai hikae: Tsuki no Muramasa (1973)
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Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike...
- 1992
Tora-san Makes Excuses (1992)
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Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto as his love interest or "Madonna"....
- 2015
Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki (2015)
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After the war, many filmmakers were expelled from the Japanese film industry due to the Toho Dispute and the Red Purge. Amid such circumstances, there were people who set up their own independent production companies and embarked on film production w...
- 1991
Goaisatsu (1991)
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An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu....
- 1983
The Bored Samurai (1983)
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Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead with flashy clothes and a handsome face, and is proficient in all the military arts and called Bored...
- 2013
必殺仕事人2013 (2013)
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- 1991
Playtime Never Ends (1991)
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A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root fo...
- 1976
Tora-san's Pure Love (1976)
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When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother....
- 1981
Aoba gakuen monogatari (1981)
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1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto....