Taizō Fukami
Featured Characters
Roles you can spot in Whatthemovie snapshots
Akai hatoba
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.
Hachijikan no kyôfu
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
Kurutta kajitsu
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Waga seishun ni kuinashi
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own path in pre- and post-WWII Japan.
Gion no shimai
A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes this, thinking that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them.