4 Movies Starring Fumio Watanabe

My Face Red in the Sunset

My Face Red in the Sunset

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-02-19

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

82 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (74 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Naked Youth

Naked Youth

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-07-01

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

96 min

IMDB Ratings:

(1191 Reviews)

Director:

Nagisa èshima

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Kiyoshi is a brooding young man who treats women solely as objects. Makoto is a young woman who is just reaching her sexual awakening. She and her friends accept car rides from middle aged men, although they state it is nothing more than fun with no intention of leading those men on. Kiyoshi and Makoto meet when he saves her from one of those middle aged men who tries to take advantage of her. Despite treating each other abusively, they start a relationship with each other which leads to what they call love, but feels more like an emotional dependence on each other to rebel against traditional society. Each with no money, they start to extort money from these middle aged men who she leads on. This act is only one demonstration of the only power they feel they have, namely sex, which they use against others as well as against each other in their doomed relationship.

The Sun's Burial

The Sun's Burial

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-01-02

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

87 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (492 Reviews)

Director:

Nagisa èshima

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Toshirè Ishidè

Nagisa èshima

Fullplot:

In Osaka's slum, youth without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.

Death by Hanging

Death by Hanging

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-12-08

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

117 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (920 Reviews)

Director:

Nagisa èshima

Cast:

Writer:

Michinori Fukao

Mamoru Sasaki

Tsutomu Tamura

Nagisa èshima

Fullplot:

A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.

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