Kunio Ôtsuka

Kunio Ôtsuka

Born: August 15, 1933
Died: June 9, 1989

Movies for Kunio Ôtsuka...

Location
Title: Location
Released: September 22, 1984
Type: Movie
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.
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Edo Porn
Title: Edo Porn
Released: September 12, 1981
Type: Movie
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
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Teacher Deer
Title: Teacher Deer
Character: The Principal
Released: March 18, 1978
Type: Movie
Mejika, reputed for her iron discipline, is hired as a biology teacher at a renowned high school. But her provocative attitude starts to worry the school's administration as she reveals vice and corruption that are running rampant in the school.
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Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
Title: Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
Character: Ichikawa
Released: November 26, 1972
Type: Movie
First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.
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The Fox With Nine Tails
Title: The Fox With Nine Tails
Character: Yorimichi (voice)
Released: October 19, 1968
Type: Movie
Tobimaru is the young emperor of Japan. He meets a mysterious woman named Tomamo. After successfully seducing Tobimaru, she brings great misfortune onto the land. Tobimaru soon discovers that Tomamo is actually a kitsune, and now has the task to unmask and kill her to save his land. (currently a lost media)
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Cry for Sorrow
Title: Cry for Sorrow
Released: May 18, 1966
Type: Movie
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.
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The Retreat from Kiska
Title: The Retreat from Kiska
Character: Shigeki
Released: July 4, 1965
Type: Movie
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuations in military history. This is that story.
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47 Ronin
Title: 47 Ronin
Released: November 3, 1962
Type: Movie
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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The Wiser Age
Title: The Wiser Age
Released: January 14, 1962
Type: Movie
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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Romance Express
Title: Romance Express
Released: April 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as a dour company president. Based on the novel "Seven and a half hours", by Shishi Bunroku.
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The Lovelorn Geisha
Title: The Lovelorn Geisha
Character: Ikeda (a student)
Released: July 12, 1960
Type: Movie
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself "already dead."
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The Orientals
Title: The Orientals
Released: April 8, 1960
Type: Movie
Episodic, globe-trotting quasi-mondo focused on women of the East.
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Beyond the Hills
Title: Beyond the Hills
Released: February 2, 1960
Type: Movie
Story of young love in the hills.
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A Whistle in My Heart
Title: A Whistle in My Heart
Released: March 29, 1959
Type: Movie
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
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Summer Clouds
Title: Summer Clouds
Released: September 2, 1958
Type: Movie
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
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Futari dake no hashi
Title: Futari dake no hashi
Released: March 5, 1958
Type: Movie
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A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye
Title: A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye
Released: July 2, 1957
Type: Movie
An Ishiro Honda film.
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Title: Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Released: April 14, 1957
Type: Movie
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.
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The Storm
Title: The Storm
Released: October 24, 1956
Type: Movie
A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.