My Akira Ifukube collection
All the movies/documentaries scored by Akira Ifukube that I own.
IMDB is missing 新妻の性典 (1950), directed by Hideo Oba.
IMDB is missing 新妻の性典 (1950), directed by Hideo Oba.
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- DirectorSenkichi TaniguchiStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraYoshio KosugiThree bank robbers on the run from the police hide out in a remote mountain lodge high up in the snowy Japanese Alps.
- DirectorYasuki ChibaStarsHideko TakamineDenjirô ÔkôchiTakako Irie
- DirectorHideo ÔbaStarsSô YamamuraSetsuko HaraTakashi KandaA gang of 4 pirates, down on their luck, head for a weather-tracking station on an outlying island, intending to hold the weather-trackers hostage and raid their next incoming supply ship. at the station the weathermen tell them, however, that a serious typhoon is on the way and the ship will be delayed. holed up at the station while the typhoon rages round, the pirates manage to quarrel and ultimately kill each other off -- the slinky pirate moll (Hara) by stepping in front of a bullet meant for the station's clean-cut telegraph operator (Usami), from the gun of Hara's jealous lover (Yamamura).
- DirectorHideo Ôba
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraMiki SanjôA surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsSugisaku AoyamaRyô IkebeEitarô Ozawa
- DirectorSenkichi TaniguchiStarsToshirô MifuneRyûnosuke TsukigataYuriko HamadaIn a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.
- DirectorKiyohiko UshiharaStarsKeiju KobayashiTeruko AkatsukiKatsuko WakasugiWhen a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.
- DirectorHideo SekigawaStarsNaonori TakasakiEiko HisadaKoji Hara
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsSusumu FujitaYûji HoriHarue Tone
- DirectorHideo SuzukiStarsMasao MishimaChieko NakakitaJun Negami
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsMitsuko MiuraSô YamamuraEiji OkadaKeiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.
- DirectorHideo Sekigawa
- DirectorMasahisa SunoharaStarsSugisaku AoyamaMinoru ChiakiSetsuko HaraWhen a woman who has been the mistress of a politician since her teen years finds herself middle-aged and owning a nice house near the ocean, she cannot imagine how her future would be much different from her past. One day, however, she meets a boy who loves to read and studies literature by the water. The boy not only tells her about a novelist, but also makes introductions, which lead to the man and woman becoming a couple. The man lives with his student and a homeless girl he has been helping. The girl does not like the mistress, while the man ponders marrying the latter woman.
- DirectorSenkichi TaniguchiStarsRyô IkebeMitsuko MitoToshirô MifuneA young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his escape from the prison in order to seek her out and learn the truth, but the police give chase and he must flee into the mountains.
- DirectorKôzaburô YoshimuraStarsMachiko KyôYasuko FujitaKeiju KobayashiThe story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
- DirectorKazuo MoriStarsIchirô AmanoKôtarô BandôSeishirô Hara
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsMichiko KatôAsami KujiMasayuki Mori
- DirectorKôzaburô YoshimuraStarsKazuo HasegawaMichiyo KogureMachiko KyôBased on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the one object of desire he must never obtain: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic consequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another, always seeking some sort of resolution to his life.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsSusumu FujitaNobuko OtowaMitsuko Mito
- DirectorKôzaburô YoshimuraStarsYumiko MiyaginoMitsuko MiuraYûko TsumuraA family of silkweavers are hit hard by industrialization.
- DirectorEiichi KoishiStarsMitsuko MitoKenji SugawaraJun Negami
- DirectorAkira NobuchiStarsIchirô AmanoMichiko HoshiMachiko Kyô
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaOsamu TakizawaMasao ShimizuPost war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.
- DirectorZenshu KoizumiStarsSô YamamuraNobuko OtowaSumiko Hidaka
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaSumiko HidakaIsuzu YamadaShusei Tokuda's starkly realistic novel about a poor girl pressed into becoming a geisha was forcefully adapted by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba). When Ginko (Nobuko Otowa, Shindo's wife) falls in love with one of her clients, she is handily rebuffed by the young man's wealthy family, and left to wander from geisha house to geisha house.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsAkemi NegishiTadashi SuganumaKisaburo SawamuraFrom June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.
- DirectorHisatora KumagaiStarsSetsuko HaraKen UeharaHiroshi KoizumiA family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the clinic lying dormant the doctor's wife rents the premises to her husband's underling. This is a man who does not accept payment from the poor. The woman, in the meantime, works at a restaurant whose owner being ill has given her additional duties. Her younger sister is an unmarried finance writer who also lives with them. It is both sisters, however, who receive marriage proposals.
- DirectorSô YamamuraStarsSô YamamuraSumiko HidakaShôjirô OgasawaraWith Japan already suffering economically at the rise of Hirohito, the Depression adds to the tyrannical bullying by bosses,and outright kidnapping of needed labor. Can the working class achieve solidarity under these conditions?
- DirectorHideo SekigawaStarsIsuzu YamadaEiji OkadaYoshi KatôBrilliant and extremely realistic retelling of the day in Hiroshima that the bomb dropped and following days.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaKoreya SendaJûkichi Uno
- DirectorDaisuke ItôStarsKazuo HasegawaKeiko TsushimaJun Tazaki
- DirectorTakeji Takamura
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsRanko AkagiKamatari FujiwaraBokuzen HidariPostwar Tokyo. Pin (Jukichi Uno) and Toku (Taiji Tonoyama) live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsTakashi ShimuraAkihiko HirataAkira TakaradaAfter a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.
- DirectorDaisuke ItôStarsMichiyo KogureJun TazakiHaruko Sugimura
- DirectorMasanori KakeiStarsIneko ArimaYû FujikiMomoko Kôchi
- DirectorKôzaburô YoshimuraStarsNobuko OtowaSumiko HidakaYukiko TodorokiIkuyo is the boss of Shizumoto, a geisha residence that employs four other women. All of them, simultaneously, reveal the extreme hardships of the profession. From the frustrated search for popularity in the newspapers, through the diffuse desires for motherhood and ending in disappointment in love, the five women survive under the incandescent sky of Ginza, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Tokyo. Told from the perspective of a recently hired young geisha apprentice, Women of Ginza is an acidic and lucid portrait of these women who, even in defeat, emerge enlightened.
- DirectorTomotaka TasakaStarsShûji SanoYukiko TodorokiChieko HigashiyamaIn order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, experiencing things that will change her view on life.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaSanae TakasugiTaiji TonoyamaTime; a few years after the surrender of Japan in the Second World War. The country is in ruins, economy devastated, and the vulnerable masses deprived of work; let alone the basic amenities of life. A new order, led by voratius opportunists is in the make where the weak are easy prey to the hydraheaded mountebanks. Betrayed and exploited by their employer, a group of five trainee insurance brokers face the challenge of commuting suicide, or taking the path of felony. They choose the latter and decide to rub a money truck to ease the suffering and pain of their family members.
- DirectorTakeji Takamura
- DirectorKôzaburô YoshimuraStarsChiyonosuke AzumaNobuko OtowaChôjûrô KawarasakiKabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self righteous priest.
- DirectorSeiji HisamatsuStarsTôru AbeMichiyo AratamaIzumi Ashikawa
- DirectorSenkichi TaniguchiStarsToshirô MifuneShin SaburiAkio KoboriMasahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo school because of his propensity for street fighting. He goes to work for a gangster named Joji, but when he realizes that Joji is mixed up in the slave trade, Koseki helps the police in their attempts to foil Joji.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsRentarô MikuniShôji YasuiTatsuya MihashiA conscience-driven Japanese soldier traumatized by the events of WWII adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaHiroyuki NagatoJûkichi Uno
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsKôjirô KusanagiSachiko HidariTaketoshi NaitôWhen an elderly couple is murdered, the police pick up the most likely suspect, a young loner. The authorities force a confession out of the suspect, who then insists that he had a pair of accomplices.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsMie KitaharaNobuko OtowaRentarô Mikuni
- DirectorYasuki ChibaStarsRyô IkebeKeiko TsushimaChieko Nakakita
- DirectorHiroshi ShimizuStarsKen UeharaMichiyo KogureKeizô KawasakiIn a cabin in the heart of the Japanese Alps, a botany professor observes two newlyweds while spending time with his lover. At night, his wife confronts him about the extramarital relationship and she leaves the teacher the next morning.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsKenji SaharaYumi ShirakawaAkihiko HirataA mining engineer investigates the deaths of his colleagues, discovering prehistoric nymphs and a creature capable of flying - and wrecking havoc - at supersonic speeds.
- DirectorDaisuke ItôStarsMachiko KyôKôji TsurutaMichiko Ono
- DirectorKôzaburô YoshimuraStarsRaizô IchikawaKyôko KagawaShintarô KatsuStory follows a poor peasant family that through hardship gets some money and how that change them.
- DirectorHiroshi InagakiStarsToshirô MifuneYoshiko KugaKyôko KagawaIn the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.
- DirectorHideo Sekigawa
- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsIchirô SugaiHisako YamaneAkira KobayashiA gritty troubled youth drama, fuelled no doubt by the taiyozoku (sun tribe) fever than current.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsYûjirô IshiharaShôji YasuiIkuko Kimuro
- DirectorSenkichi TaniguchiStarsChishû RyûSetsuko HaraReiko DanIn the last film of Hara Setsuko's career involving wars, a group of Japanese nursing students and their instructor played by Hara, is serving at an army camp in China. When Japan loses the war the group sets out to depart China, but en route back to Japan is captured by the Chinese and coerced to instead treat the Chinese army at a clinic. Caught with the group is also a Japanese doctor. When the Chinese army faction itself loses in battle the Japanese plan their escape.
- DirectorYasuki ChibaStarsIsuzu YamadaToshirô MifuneHaruo TanakaA young woman whose husband has died in the war loses her will to live, sinking deeper and deeper into depression and isolation. A gentle workman falls in love with her and helps her to find new life.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsKenji SaharaYumi ShirakawaMomoko KôchiShortly after a giant robot destroys a village, aliens from outer space arrive offering friendship. Will the people of Earth tie these two events together?
- DirectorHiroshi InagakiStarsKôji TsurutaToshirô MifuneNobuko OtowaIn the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them. In Part II, the search for the scrolls continues.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsKinuyo TanakaMachiko KyôJûkichi Uno
- DirectorSeiji MaruyamaStarsAkira KuboKumi MizunoDaisuke Katô
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsKenji SugawaraFujiko YamamotoHitomi NozoeSalarymen Uozo and his friend Kosaku plan to climb a mountain. A few days before they are due to start, Kosaku confesses that he has had a fling with a married woman, with whom he is now madly in love, but she has just dumped him. The rope breaks during the climb, killing Kosaku. Was the rope faulty, or did Kosaku plan to kill himself ? The rope manufacturer pressures Uozo towards the suicide theory, but Uozo stands firm. Who will back down ?
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsRentarô MikuniIneko ArimaMasayuki MoriWhen a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. However, the woman's husband blames himself for his wife's straying and attempts to thwart the law demanding capital punishment.
- DirectorIshirô HondaMotoyoshi OdaStarsKôzô NomuraAyumi SonodaKoreya SendaOriginal Japanese version. Research in the Tohoku region comes across a monster known to the locals as the mountain god Baradagi.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsKôji TsurutaAkira TakaradaYumi ShirakawaRyuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.