Taka Okubo

Taka Okubo

Born: October 11, 1943
in Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Taka Okubo...

A Warm Ray of Light
Title: A Warm Ray of Light
Released: June 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Misaki, living a lonely life in Tokyo for college; decides to go back home to Fukushima for a month on her spring break. But by coming home without a notice, her mother would not welcome her nor let her in the house. She wanders around trying to find a friend to let her stay and fails miserably but ends up finding a small hotel called "Komorebi" looking for a short time live-in worker. There, she starts living with a kind and trustworthy woman, Kinuyo, and a hurt and depressed owner, Goro. A girl with a broken up family and a man with a dark past; their paths in life cross over as they start to change slowly...
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Wandering Home
Title: Wandering Home
Character: Matsumoto
Released: December 4, 2010
Type: Movie
War photjournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospitalized, and violent. Even with all of these problems Yasuyuki can't give up drinking alcohol. His family gets tired. Yasuyuki is then hospitalized in an alcoholic ward. There he finds comfort living with other patients and having conversations with doctors. With the help of his family, Yasuyuki recovers mentally and physically, but his body has already paid a heavy toll.
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Love Exposure
Title: Love Exposure
Character: Priest
Released: January 31, 2009
Type: Movie
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
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Geisha Assassin
Title: Geisha Assassin
Character: Toji / Priest
Released: September 27, 2008
Type: Movie
One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The samurais attack her one after another, but she fights hard against samurais with her sword. Kotono tries to chase the samurais who scramble to escape. Yet now three ninjas stand up against her. Kotono drops her sword by their wave of assaults. Can she beat them?
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Prisoner/Terrorist
Title: Prisoner/Terrorist
Character: Scarf man
Released: February 2, 2007
Type: Movie
During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leaving him captured. Exposed to maltreatment in prison, he slowly loses his grip on reality as he is forced to confront his ideological convictions.
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Title: Lion-Maru G
Character: Kashinkoji
Released: October 1, 2006
Type: TV
Lion-Maru G is a Japanese tokusatsu series that aired from October 1, 2006 to November 24, 2006 in Japan, lasting 13 episodes. It is the third part in the Lion-Maru trilogy, following Kaiketsu Lion-Maru and Fuun Lion-Maru. The "G" is short for 'Ghetto'. This Lion-Maru is called "the Beast Transformed Gigolo Warrior".
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The Buried Forest
Title: The Buried Forest
Released: May 12, 2005
Type: Movie
Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest.
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Most Dangerous  Deka Matsuri
Title: Most Dangerous Deka Matsuri
Released: May 24, 2003
Type: Movie
Third installment of the Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 11 films made under the conditions: "the main character must be a detective" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes" "at least five gags must be included"
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Like a Desperado Under The Eaves
Title: Like a Desperado Under The Eaves
Released: April 26, 2003
Type: Movie
The main character Akihiko lives in an old apartment. He plays the guitar and sings his own pieces on the street, but this cannot be called his dream. He has a girlfriend. The owner of the apartment next-door constantly repeats Buddhist prayers night and day. On the floor above, there lives a strange middle-aged man who wants to be kicked out of the apartment. Such an ordinary day exists. Akihiko is standing still on the street at dawn.
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Through the Night
Title: Through the Night
Released: November 2, 2002
Type: Movie
When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out for profit. Amidst this plan there is discrimination, war and an infatuation between a man and a woman, but like everything around them there and owing to the forces around them, there is as much chance that these may burn to ashes and be destroyed or be the beginning of something new.
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Pu
Title: Pu
Released: December 31, 1994
Type: Movie
A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to fall into disarray.
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Crepe
Title: Crepe
Released: October 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Ran as a double feature with Chibusa (1993).
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Baka yarô! 4 You! Omae no koto da yo 3 Sagi naru Japan
Title: Baka yarô! 4 You! Omae no koto da yo 3 Sagi naru Japan
Character: (segment "カラダだけの男")
Released: September 14, 1991
Type: Movie
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Tuff Part I
Title: Tuff Part I
Released: February 20, 1990
Type: Movie
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The Sea of Genkai
Title: The Sea of Genkai
Released: May 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across the Genkai Sea.
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Title: Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Character: Actor
Released: February 15, 1969
Type: Movie
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Title: Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Character: Himself
Released: February 15, 1969
Type: Movie
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
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The Notorious Concubines
Title: The Notorious Concubines
Released: September 27, 1968
Type: Movie
Dark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak. Still, this gory, sexy epic is made with style and interesting for to compare to "Yojimbo" and other masterworks of the form.
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The Pistol That Sprouted Hair
Title: The Pistol That Sprouted Hair
Character: Shō
Released: May 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the organization hires two killers to get rid of Shirō. The duo begin to develop a strange kinship with their target...
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Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands
Title: Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands
Released: October 3, 1967
Type: Movie
A wealthy real estate investor is forced to watch the rape of his girlfriend and then is sent a film showing the fact. He hires a hitman, Sho, and shows him the film, so that the detective can get rid of the criminals. But the boss of the criminal band is Ko, Sho's archnemesis, who raped and murdered his girlfriend.