Hiroshi Akutagawa (芥川比呂志) was born on March 20, 1920 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953), Gan (1953) and Tôkyô yawa (1961). He died on October 25, 1981 in Tokyo.
Movies7.1 1958 HD
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Toshirō Mifune
Movies6.3 1953 HD
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Hideko Takamine
Movies6.1 1953 HD
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...
Genre: History
Cast: Yatsuko Tan'ami
Movies6.8 1969 HD
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and...
Genre: Animation
Cast: Yukio Aoshima
Movies6.4 1953 HD
Gosho’s most celebrated film both in Japan and the West, Where Chimneys Are Seen is perhaps the most compelling example of his concern for, and...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka
Movies6.4 1960 HD
Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Miyuki Kuwano
Movies7.058 1970 HD
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Yoshitaka Zushi
Movies6.3 1957 HD
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Machiko Kyō
Movies1 1956 HD
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kinzō Shin
Movies8 1960 HD
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto
Movies1 1956 HD
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Hideko Takamine
Movies6.8 1970 HD
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai
Movies6.5 1965 HD
This is the sequel to Jose Torres (1959), the portrayal of Puerto Rican boxer Jose Torres, who won a silver medal in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. We...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Hiroshi Akutagawa
Movies6.4 1950 HD
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
Genre: Romance
Cast: Yoshiko Kuga
Movies7 1969 HD
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Chiezō Kataoka
Movies1 1950 HD
One Sunday morning, Toshio Esaki, a young dentist, wakes up in his clinic. It seems that he was drunk and spent the night in the clinic instead of...
Genre:
Cast: Yūji Hori
Movies7.2 1970 HD
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
Genre: War
Cast: Martin Balsam
Movies1 1958 HD
This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temples. Horyu-ji, in the small town of Ikaruga outside...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Hiroshi Akutagawa
Movies1 1969 HD
Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha residence, the Katsura Imperial Villa, and the Gion...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Hiroshi Akutagawa
Movies1 1954 HD
Genre: Drama
Cast: Machiko Kyō
S1 E521 1971 HD
The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Rumi Matsumto
S1 E521 1966 HD
The chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late Heian and early Kamakura general of the Minamoto clan of...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kikunosuke Onoe IV
S1 E51 1967 HD
Genre:
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai
