Masakazu Kuwayama

Masakazu Kuwayama

Born: August 16, 1922
Died: September 4, 1983
in Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Masakazu Kuwayama...

The Longest Tunnel
Title: The Longest Tunnel
Released: October 16, 1982
Type: Movie
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.
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Horny Working Girl: From 5 to 9
Title: Horny Working Girl: From 5 to 9
Character: Onogi
Released: March 12, 1982
Type: Movie
A woman named Chieko Kuwano is hired as an assistant manager at a large corporate office in Japan. She’s smart, sexy, and willing to do almost anything for her sex-starved new boss but, since he’s married, his deviant behavior makes her uncomfortable. Fed up with the boss and his perverted ways, the ladies in the building band together to enact their own special kind of revenge… that is, after they have a lesbian three-way slumber party, of course!
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Mitsuryōzuma: oku no uzuki
Title: Mitsuryōzuma: oku no uzuki
Character: Tatsuzô Marune
Released: September 11, 1981
Type: Movie
In the sweltering heat a wife searches for men to satisfy her insatiable lust. But someone is watching… and learning.
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Uno Kôichirô no uwaki nikki
Title: Uno Kôichirô no uwaki nikki
Character: Minami
Released: October 4, 1980
Type: Movie
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Port Arthur
Title: Port Arthur
Released: August 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
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Juvenile Wife
Title: Juvenile Wife
Character: Rentarô
Released: April 26, 1980
Type: Movie
A newlywed wife suffers the consequences for her husband’s actions when he cheats a customer at his credit company out of a large sum of money.
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Waga seishun no eleven
Title: Waga seishun no eleven
Released: July 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Soccer movie.
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Youth - Part II
Title: Youth - Part II
Released: February 10, 1979
Type: Movie
Isamu, a star athlete in high school, becomes a race cyclist. He wins his debut races, but soon his opponents see through his lack of strategy and beat him easily. Isamu's maths teacher, a race cycling freak, says he knows the solution to Isamu's problem. But will Isamu listen to him?
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Harry and His Geisha Girls
Title: Harry and His Geisha Girls
Released: June 3, 1978
Type: Movie
Mr. Harry, who suffers from a "peanut sized" penis complex, comes to Japan to undergo a genital transplant operation, the first of its kind in the world. The operation is a success but Harry soon is involved into a shady plot related to his organ donor.
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幽霊列車
Title: 幽霊列車
Released: January 14, 1978
Type: Movie
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The Skies of Haruo
Title: The Skies of Haruo
Released: December 19, 1977
Type: Movie
1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.
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Sweet Revenge
Title: Sweet Revenge
Character: Keinosuke Okumura
Released: December 17, 1977
Type: Movie
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
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Ballad of Orin
Title: Ballad of Orin
Character: Manzaburo Imanishi
Released: November 19, 1977
Type: Movie
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
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Yumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell
Title: Yumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell
Character: Principal
Released: August 20, 1977
Type: Movie
In a religious school for girls the pure love between two students is torn apart by social and moral corruption.
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Yakyukyo no uta
Title: Yakyukyo no uta
Character: Ippei Gori
Released: March 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga.
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Case of the Disjointed Murder
Title: Case of the Disjointed Murder
Released: March 14, 1977
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...
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A Portrait of Shunkin
Title: A Portrait of Shunkin
Character: Yohei Nukui(温井与平)
Released: December 25, 1976
Type: Movie
Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight.
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The Flag, Class A, Grade 4.
Title: The Flag, Class A, Grade 4.
Released: November 14, 1976
Type: Movie
When teacher Kimura is assigned to Yuko’s Class A, 4th Grade, the children are very happy. But they are surprised to hear from her that she is expecting a baby in October. The children have learned many things. They have been brought closer together among themselves and they have gained a closer relationship with their parents. Above all, they have learned about some of the important things in life as they advance toward the still unknown realm of adulthood.
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Murderer!
Title: Murderer!
Character: Munekata Zenbei
Released: October 16, 1976
Type: Movie
A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to none.
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A Violent School Revolution
Title: A Violent School Revolution
Released: June 7, 1975
Type: Movie
A Violent School Revolution
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Sigh
Title: Sigh
Character: Managing Director Kitagawa
Released: November 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Shiosai
Title: Shiosai
Released: September 24, 1971
Type: Movie
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue's father forbids her to see Shinji. But when the boy saves the passengers on a boat owned by Hatsue's father, his luck in love begins to change.
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Dodes'ka-den
Title: Dodes'ka-den
Character: Western-style restaurant owner
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: Movie
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
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Attack at Daylight
Title: Attack at Daylight
Character: Miyazaki
Released: February 8, 1970
Type: Movie
A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.
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We Sell It Because It Sells
Title: We Sell It Because It Sells
Released: September 27, 1969
Type: Movie
Young bartender operates secret sex club as a profitable side business.
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Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses
Title: Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses
Character: Chiyoshi Daimon
Released: August 13, 1969
Type: Movie
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
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East China Sea
Title: East China Sea
Released: October 5, 1968
Type: Movie
Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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My Destiny
Title: My Destiny
Character: Iwakichi Tsutsumi
Released: June 30, 1968
Type: Movie
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Two Hearts in the Rain
Title: Two Hearts in the Rain
Released: March 27, 1968
Type: Movie
Love story of a working-class boy and girl.
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Dissolution Rites
Title: Dissolution Rites
Released: March 31, 1967
Type: Movie
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
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Warm Current
Title: Warm Current
Released: April 29, 1966
Type: Movie
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Carmen from Kawachi
Title: Carmen from Kawachi
Character: Head Priest
Released: February 7, 1966
Type: Movie
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.
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The Betrayers Out!
Title: The Betrayers Out!
Released: January 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.
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A Story Written with Water
Title: A Story Written with Water
Character: Yamazaki
Released: November 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.
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A Trap
Title: A Trap
Character: Okumura
Released: May 28, 1965
Type: Movie
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 shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
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Title: 宇宙少年ソラン
Character: 古月博士
Released: May 4, 1965
Type: TV
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Kwaidan
Title: Kwaidan
Character: (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Released: January 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
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Escape from Japan
Title: Escape from Japan
Character: Chief Detective of Department 1
Released: July 3, 1964
Type: Movie
As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a robbery.
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The Irresponsible Fool
Title: The Irresponsible Fool
Released: April 29, 1964
Type: Movie
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his hometown is exceptionally stronger than anybody's, he is trying everything he can to somehow help the inhabitants of the island which are going through a recession. He saddles himself with a debt to bring a cheap band onto the island and tries to market the underwater sightseeing ship on the island without regards for the Marine Act.
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The Insect Woman
Title: The Insect Woman
Character: Owagawa En's Lover
Released: November 16, 1963
Type: Movie
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
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She and He
Title: She and He
Released: October 18, 1963
Type: Movie
As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She finds new interests, new love, and a greater sense of her place in the world.
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All My Children
Title: All My Children
Character: Mr. Numata
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near the end of WWII.
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A Bold Life
Title: A Bold Life
Character: Matazaemon Takehira
Released: October 22, 1961
Type: Movie
Depicts the checkered story of a businessman working for a toy company in financial trouble, who overcomes hardships to win a major victory.
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Dotanba
Title: Dotanba
Released: November 10, 1956
Type: Movie
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