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Ganjirō Nakamura II
Born: 17th Feb 1902 Osaka, Japan - Died 13th Apr 1983
Dept: Acting
Nakamura Ganjirō II was a Japanese kabuki and film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1941 and 1980, directed by notable filmmakers such as Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa, and Mikio Naruse.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 70
Film: 69 (99%)
Television: 1 (1%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Music
Filmography
Original title: ザ・レイプ
1982
Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice sy ... view
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Akiyama
Original title: 日本名作怪談劇場 怪談 死神
1979
After a fight with his wife, Yahachirō, a carpenter, meets a sinister "Shinigami" who teaches him how to spot people who won’t die. He profits by t ... view
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May 1979 (first aired)
Nakamura Mondo was relegated to a post in Hachioji from the Minamimachi Bugyōsho and he has retired from professional assassin. But one day he was or ... view
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Motojime Shikazō (333 ep.)
Original title: ある映画監督の生涯 溝口健二の記録
1975
In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts the lif ... view
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Self
Original title: 悪名 縄張荒らし
1974
About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business. ... view
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Original title: 湖の琴
1966
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings, ... view
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Samezaemon
Original title: 横堀川
1966
Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just trie ... view
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Rihei
Original title: 「エロ事師たち」より 人類学入門
1966
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, H ... view
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Elderly Executive
Original title: 女めくら物語
1965
At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, she meets a bu ... view
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Original title: 怪談
1965
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit ... view
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Publisher (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Original title: 忍びの者 霧隠才蔵
1964
[Period covered: 1614-1615] Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be tied up before his domination is complete ... view
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Ieyasu Tokugawa
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His Father
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Tahei
Original title: われらサラリーマン
1963
Eiichiro, a talented young salesman, grows disillusioned with office politics and returns to his family’s traditional tofu business, applying skill ... view
Character:
Seizo Komuro (Eiichiro’s Father)
Original title: 越前竹人形
1963
Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a courtesan who was once involved with Kisuke's late father. ... view
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Boatman
Original title: ぐれん隊純情派
1963
A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during the ... view
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Original title: 女系家族
1963
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father. ... view
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Uichi
Original title: 雪之丞変化
1963
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago. ... view
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Sansai Dobe
Original title: 秦・始皇帝
1962
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted au ... view
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Hsu Fu
Original title: 殺陣師段平
1962
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives fo ... view
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Danpei Ichikawa
Original title: 怪談夜泣き燈籠
1962
One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa.
It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from hom ... view
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Original title: お吟さま
1962
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the ... view
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Sen Rikyu
Original title: 破戒
1962
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such ... view
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Buddha priest
Original title: 雁の寺
1962
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lasciv ... view
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Nangaku Kishimoto
Original title: 釈迦
1961
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (C ... view
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Ashoka
Original title: 小早川家の秋
1961
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 mis ... view
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Kohayagawa Manbei
Original title: 色の道教えます 夢三夜
1961
A unique story of a life of romance, divided into three episodes about the profound secrets of the path deeply rooted in the essence of human nature, ... view
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Original title: 東京おにぎり娘
1961
Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, b ... view
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Tsurukichi
Original title: 好色一代男
1961
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pu ... view
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Original title: 銀座っ子物語
1961
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met ... view
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Original title: 白子屋駒子
1960
Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke O ... view
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Shozaburo Shirokoya
Original title: 怪談累が淵
1960
Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse, so that she ... view
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Original title: 女の坂
1960
Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto. ... view
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Kiyoi
Original title: 大江山酒天童子
1960
A band of warriors journeys to Mount Oe to rescue abducted women from a demon, overcoming supernatural threats like a giant spider and a diabolical wi ... view
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Original title: ぼんち
1960
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give t ... view
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Original title: 女が階段を上る時
1960
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful ar ... view
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Goda
Original title: 女経
1960
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the s ... view
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Original title: 二人の武蔵
1960
During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the finest swordsman in the land by defeating the Yagyu ... view
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Original title: 初春狸御殿
1959
Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. One day after they disguised themselves as parasol ... view
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Tanuemon
Original title: 浮草
1959
A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. ... view
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Komajuro Arashi
Original title: 日本誕生
1959
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Empe ... view
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Emperor Keikō
Original title: 鍵
1959
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introducti ... view
Character:
Kenji Kenmochi
Character:
Tan'an Ogisu
Original title: 水戸黄門漫遊記
1958
Lord Mito Mitsukuni, the vice-shogun of the whole country, left the family estate and went on a trip to various provinces with his students Sukesaburo ... view
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Mitsukuni 'Kômon' Mito
Original title: 弁天小僧
1958
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo Awa ... view
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Original title: 炎上
1958
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distre ... view
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Tayama Dosen
Original title: 鰯雲
1958
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns ou ... view
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Wasuke
Original title: 暖簾
1958
The lives of a family of kelp (kombu) merchants in Osaka across three generations, spanning from the Meiji era through the aftermath of World War II. ... view
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Original title: 忠臣蔵
1958
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target ... view
Character:
Gorobei Kakimi
Original title: 江戸っ子祭
1958
During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo ... view
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Original title: 女殺し油地獄
1957
A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka. ... view
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Original title: どん底
1957
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that tur ... view
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Rokubei, Osugi's Husband
Original title: 琴の爪
1957
Seppuku Day 17 Ako ronins, including Kuranosuke Oishi, who were entrusted to the Hosokawa family, and the events of the two days before are depicted a ... view
Character:
Denemon Horiuchi
Original title: 源氏物語 浮舟
1957
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Drawn from parts of the famous Genji mon ... view
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Emperor
Original title: 大阪物語
1957
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and ... view
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Nihei
