3 Movies Starring Komaki Kurihara

Inochi bè ni furè

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-09-11

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

121 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (228 Reviews)

Director:

Masaki Kobayashi

Genres:

Crime Drama

Cast:

Tatsuya Nakadai Komaki Kurihara Wakako Sakai Kan'emon Nakamura

Writer:

Yasuko Miyazaki (screenplay)

Shègorè Yamamoto (novel)

Fullplot:

The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of smugglers, with stolen money intended to ransom his loved one who is forced to work in a brothel.

Sandakan 8

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-06-23

Languages:

Japanese, Malay

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

120 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (320 Reviews)

Director:

Kei Kumai

Genres:

Drama History War

Cast:

Komaki Kurihara Yèko Takahashi Kinuyo Tanaka Takiko Mizunoe

Writer:

Tomoko Yamazaki (nonfiction book)

Sakae Hirosawa (screenplay)

Kei Kumai (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.