Movies: Yūsuke Kawazu

  • 1977
    A Scream from Nowhere

    A Scream from Nowhere (1977)

    A Scream from Nowhere

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    In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy industrialist who may have been leading a double life....

    A Scream from Nowhere
  • 1968
    Blackmail Is My Life

    Blackmail Is My Life (1968)

    Blackmail Is My Life

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    Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when...

    Blackmail Is My Life
  • 1961
    Killers on Parade

    Killers on Parade (1961)

    Killers on Parade

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    A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition....

    Killers on Parade
  • 1959
    Tomorrow's Sun

    Tomorrow's Sun (1959)

    Tomorrow's Sun

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    A playful short film made in the style of a trailer for a fictional feature film that seems to be a spoof of films that were popular in Japan at the time....

    Tomorrow's Sun
  • 1968
    Black Lizard

    Black Lizard (1968)

    Black Lizard

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    A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond....

    Black Lizard
  • 1969
    Black Rose Mansion

    Black Rose Mansion (1969)

    Black Rose Mansion

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    A feverishly perverse 1969 film noir oddity starring female impersonator Akihiro Maruyama. When wealthy Kyohei hires transvestite singer "Black Rose" to perform in his exclusive men's club, he gets more than he bargains for when she attracts scores o...

    Black Rose Mansion
  • 1981
    Flames of Blood

    Flames of Blood (1981)

    Flames of Blood

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    The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's a gambler/bakuto). After he kills someone and gets wound, is saved by a blind woman (Mitsuko Baishô),...

    Flames of Blood
  • 1971
    Confessions Among Actresses

    Confessions Among Actresses (1971)

    Confessions Among Actresses

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    In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them ...

    Confessions Among Actresses
  • 1971
    Mona Lisa Okyo

    Mona Lisa Okyo (1971)

    Mona Lisa Okyo

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    The film is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Teruo Tanashita, Mari Atsumi plays a pickpocket trying to get hold of a valuable but elusive diamond brooch called "Star"....

    Mona Lisa Okyo
  • 1963
    Sing, Young People

    Sing, Young People (1963)

    Sing, Young People

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    A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star....

    Sing, Young People
  • 1961
    A Good Man, A Good Day

    A Good Man, A Good Day (1961)

    A Good Man, A Good Day

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    The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation....

    A Good Man, A Good Day
  • 1968
    Woman Gambler and the Nun

    Woman Gambler and the Nun (1968)

    Woman Gambler and the Nun

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    Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin....

    Woman Gambler and the Nun
  • 1965
    A Trap

    A Trap (1965)

    A Trap

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    When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is ...

    A Trap
  • 1973
    A Mummy’s Love

    A Mummy’s Love (1973)

    A Mummy’s Love

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    In post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of a legend about a mummified Buddhist monk who was revived and who, centuries later, turned into a sex demon who terrorized a village in pre-modern Japa...

    A Mummy’s Love
  • 1992
    Basara: The Princess Goh

    Basara: The Princess Goh (1992)

    Basara: The Princess Goh

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    Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed ...

    Basara: The Princess Goh
  • 1960
    The River Fuefuki

    The River Fuefuki (1960)

    The River Fuefuki

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    In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followe...

    The River Fuefuki
  • 1960
    Spring Dreams

    Spring Dreams (1960)

    Spring Dreams

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    When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends....

    Spring Dreams
  • 1959
    Farewell to Spring

    Farewell to Spring (1959)

    Farewell to Spring

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    Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were....

    Farewell to Spring
  • 1970
    Play It Cool

    Play It Cool (1970)

    Play It Cool

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    This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are...

    Play It Cool
  • 1966
    Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave

    Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave (1966)

    Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave

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    TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force in direct opposition to the criminal organization TIGER (The International Group of Espionage and Revolt). Shunsuke Dan is agent Spycatcher J3 of the T...

    Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave