Shôichi Ozawa

All Movies of Shôichi Ozawa

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  Big Mama
  A strong-willed matriarch (Keiko Kishi) struggles to keep her brood of five -- including three grown sons and a pretty, marriageable daughter -- on the road to financial survival, if not success. She has also given them a strong m...
   2001

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  7.0
  The Eel
  The film opens with Takuro Yamashita (Koji Yakusho), a seemingly normal salaryman, learning that his wife might be having an affair. When he catches the couple in flaganto delicto, he freaks out and brutally stabs them both to dea...
   1997

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  A Sandcastle Model Family Home
  A worker moves his family to a model mansion for 12 months; Unfortunately, they must allow prospective buyers to tour your home during business hours.
   1989

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  7.3
  Black Rain
  The title refers to the radioactive fallout which descended upon ruined city of Hiroshima after the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Young bride-to-be Yoshiko Tanaka has the misfortune to be visiting Hiroshima on the day of the ...
   1989

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  Gonza the Spearman
  The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojo for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir ...
   1986

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  The Ballad of Narayama
  A fusion of Japanese Kabuki and modern film techniques, this adaptation of Shichiro Fukazawa's 1956 novel depicts the moving tale of a 69-year-old woman's traditional journey from her poor village to the summit of Mount Narayama t...
   1983

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  Ichijo's Wet Lust
  Set in a variety theater in the center of Osaka, a young strip-tease artist, Harumi (Hiroko Isayama), has had enough of the lesbian act she performs with Mari, and is eager to start up her own joint. Unfortunately, her yakuza pimp...
   1972

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  Summer Soldiers
  This fascinating Japanese drama takes an objective look at the relationship between American GIs and deserters in Japan during the Vietnam war. Many of the men went on leave to Tokyo. Some did not want to return and ended up shelt...
   1972

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  7.7
  The Insect Woman
  Tome was born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. She is molested from childhood by her stepfather. As a young adult she moves from her rural village to find work in factory, where she engages in an affair with her boss. She...
  Character: Ken

   1963

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  Foundry Town
  Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families, and one girl's dreams of self-improvement through going on to higher education.
   1962

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  6.0
  Stolen Desire
  An idealistic director quits school to join a traveling theater troupe and finds himself trapped in a love triangle between the leading player's wife and her younger sister.
   1958

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  Young Breasts
   1958