5 Movies Starring Ganjirè Nakamura

Donzoko

Donzoko

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-10-01

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

137 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (3152 Reviews)

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Maxim Gorky (play)

Akira Kurosawa

Hideo Oguni

Fullplot:

Una coppia di gretti usurai gestisce uno squallido dormitorio, nei pressi di una discarica. Una folla di larve e relitti umani affolla il locale: un ex attore alcolizzato; una prostituta; un fabbro che sragiona; disoccupati ed altri ancora. In tutti c'è la ricerca della fuga dalla loro miseranda esistenza, attraverso alcool, gioco, sogni. Arriva un giorno al dormitorio un vecchio e saggio pellegrino, che porta in tutti una nota di speranza con la sua filosofia e la sua umanitè. Ma il sogno dura poco : lo sconforto torna ad impadronirsi di tutti, al punto da portare l'ex attore al suicidio e gli altri a ribellarsi ai due gestori. Ispirato ad un dramma di Gorkij, il film parla della parte sconfitta dell'umanitè, dei vinti, dei falliti, dei rifiutati dalla societè "civile".

Conflagration

Conflagration

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1964-09-22

Languages:

Japanese, English

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

99 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (370 Reviews)

Director:

Kon Ichikawa

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Keiji Hasebe

Kon Ichikawa

Yukio Mishima (novel)

Natto Wada

Fullplot:

Odd Obsession

Odd Obsession

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-05-12

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

107 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (401 Reviews)

Director:

Kon Ichikawa

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Keiji Hasebe

Kon Ichikawa

Jun'ichirè Tanizaki (novel)

Natto Wada

Fullplot:

A man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.

The End of Summer

The End of Summer

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1962-02-01

Languages:

Japanese, English

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

103 min

IMDB Ratings:

(2122 Reviews)

Director:

Yasujirè Ozu

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Kègo Noda (screenplay)

Yasujirè Ozu (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

The Pornographers

The Pornographers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1966-08-01

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (1474 Reviews)

Director:

Shèhei Imamura

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Shèhei Imamura

Akiyuki Nosaka (novel)

Koji Numata

Fullplot:

Mr. Ogata lives a complicated life: he is a pornographer making two skin flicks per day and trying to stay beneath the radar screen of the local mob; he deeply loves his ailing wife Haru who's cursed by the restless spirit of her dead first husband; he also has a mistress, a step-son who wants to go to university, and a step-daughter entering adolescence. He lusts after his step-daughter, and when Haru finds out about those sexual advances, she asks him to marry the girl. Haru even signs over her business to him, and a crisis ensues when Ogata uses her nest egg to buy equipment so he and his pals can set up their own film processing lab. Surreal images and events weave their way into Ogata's life.

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