Cast: Kiwako Taichi

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Nobuko Otowa · Kiwako Taichi · Kei Sato

Plot A woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Daijirô Harada · Nobuko Otowa · Keiko Torii · Kiwako Taichi

Plot Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from...

Direction Shintarô Katsu

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Kiwako Taichi · Kyoko Yoshizawa · Yasuhiro Koume

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Ruriko Asaoka · Ineko Arima · Kiwako Taichi

Plot In this intricately layered film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Suisen Ichikawa · Shima Iwashita · Tetsurô Tanba

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Mikijiro Hira · Kiwako Taichi · Yousuke Kondou · Yuki Mizuhara

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Eiji Bandô · Makoto Nonomura · Kin Sugai · Kogan Ashiya

Plot A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Kiwako Taichi · Jiro Daimaru · Daigo Kusano

Direction Jun Kaoike · Nagayoshi Akasaka

Cast Kazuo Hara · Ichirô Kojima · Shika Saito · Tatsume Shiutaro

Plot In 1960, Matsushita Electric commissioned a science fiction superhero manga to Kodansha and a TV series to Toei Company in order to promote their National brand electronics. National Kid is...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Ken Ogata · Masaomi Kondo · Teruhiko Saigô

Plot Toranosuke Sugi, a brave and loyal Samurai, fights to practice and preserve his master's teachings amid a civil war. With friends on both side will he cave to temptation, or...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Yôko Tsukasa · Reiko Ohara · Mitsuko Kusabue

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Joji Ai · Hiroko Isayama · Kirin Kiki

Plot Set in 1937, this is the story of Asakichi, who is played by Shiuntaro Katsu, best known as being Zatoichi in 26 films. Asakichi has been disowned by his father...

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast Kinya Kitaoji · Kiwako Taichi · Norihei Miki · Junko Miyashita

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Naoko Otani · Masakazu Tamura · Yusuke Kawazu

Plot A yakuza member's half-sister means much more to him in a film that repeatedly depicts realities other than what normal societal rules allow. The overly protective and loving brother; however,...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Kiwako Taichi · Jûkichi Uno

Plot During his travels, Tora-san meets Ikenouchi, a drunken old man whom he assumes is poor and homeless. Tora-san takes the old man home. When he wakes up, Ikenouchi begins ordering...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Ken Takakura · Shigemi Kitahara · Takashi Kanda · Kiwako Taichi

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Hibari Misora · Kiwako Taichi · Ken Takakura · Kaoru Aikawa

Direction Eiichi Kudo · Hideo Suzuki · Kazuo Ikehiro · Kazuo Mori

Cast Isamu Nagato · Ikkô Furuya · Akiko Nomura · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Plot TV series (1977-1978). 2 seasons. 57 episodes.