Emerging from a background that included service in the Japanese army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, he survived a narrow brush with death before turning to the performing arts, where his personal life-married yet maintaining a long-term mistress-paralleled a lifelong passion for detective fiction and jazz. His literary side produced a semi-autobiographical essay collection titled Sanmon Yak… Read more
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Known for In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Onibaba 1964 Good Morning 1959 Drunken Angel 1948 ★ 8 The Naked Island 1960
Senta ★ 7.6 Black Rain 1989
Old Priest ★ 7.5 Vengeance Is Mine 1979
Tanejiro Shibata ★ 7.4 Kuroneko 1968
Farmer ★ 7.4 Profound Desires of the Gods 1968
Higa ★ 7.3 The Castle of Sand 1974
Publican at Ebisu ★ 7.3 The Pornographers 1966
Father ★ 7.2 The Insect Woman 1963
Foreman ★ 7.2 Record of a Tenement Gentleman 1947
Photographer ★ 7.3 Muddy River 1981
Man on Festival Boat ★ 7.3 Seisaku's Wife 1965
Retired Man ★ 7.1 Gate of Hell 1953
Kakisuke ★ 7.2 Silence 1971
Prison guard ★ 7.1 Pigs and Battleships 1961
Chen ★ 7.2 Ballad of Orin 1977
Mountain Man ★ 7.1 Children of Hiroshima 1952
Owner of a ship ★ 7 Intentions of Murder 1964
Beret Musician ★ 7 A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era 1957
Kurazo ★ 7 The Ball at the Anjo House 1947
Yoshida ★ 6.9 Scandal 1950
Aoye's friend ★ 6.8 The Ceremony 1971
Old Chief ★ 6.5 Akitsu Hot Springs 1962
Rokusuke ★ 6.8 Empire of Passion 1978
Toichiro ★ 5.8 A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse 1975
Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager) ★ 6.2 Violence at Noon 1966
School director ★ 5.7 Japanese Summer: Double Suicide 1967
★ 5.9 Legend of the Eight Samurai 1983
Hikojii ★ 5.9 Edo Porn 1981
Tattooist ★ 6.2 Sex and Fury 1973
Tokuzô Kasai ★ 5.3 Fruits of Passion 1981
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