Direction: Kazuo Kuroki

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Kazuo Kuroki. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Silence Has No Wings

1966 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Mariko Kaga · Hosei Komatsu · Toshie Kimura · Takeshi Kusaka

Synopsis A boy on the northern island of Hokkaido, Japan catches a butterfly from Nagasaki, at the southern end of the archipelago. His teachers think he bought the insect in a department store and lecture him on his fraud. Meanwhile, a...

6.9

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Evil Spirits of Japan

1970 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Yôsuke Enomoto · Tatsumi Hijikata · Eiko Horii · Hideo Kanze

Synopsis Based on the novel by Kazumi Takahashi.Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical they look. So they swtiched their positions. Murase...

6.6

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6.6

33 votes

The Solar Thread

1963 · Documentary · 29 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Synopsis Presentation of polymer chemistry-based synthetic fiber, and the manufacturing facilities and production process used by Toray, Japan’s leading textile maker. Also depicts the textiles being sold throughout Europe and the US.

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Pickpocket

2000 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Yoshio Harada · Jun Fubuki · Kirina Mano · Shuji Kashiwabara

Synopsis Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're observed by a middle-aged cop, who generally...

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Fûfu tabi nikki saraba ronin (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 54 min. · Japan

Direction Shintarô Katsu · Eiichi Kudo · Kazuo Kuroki · Kazuo Mori

Cast Yoshio Harada · Yusaku Matsuda · Makoto Fujita · Masumi Harukawa

Synopsis TV series (1976).

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Keishi-K (TV Series)

1980 · Series · 50 min. · Japan

Direction Shintarô Katsu · Kazuo Kuroki · Kazuo Mori · Masayoshi Nemoto

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Masami Okumura · Takuzo Kawatani · Harukazu Kitami

Synopsis TV series (1980). 1 season. 13 episodes. The story of main character inspector K (Shintarô Katsu), who lived in a trailer, and his outlaw policemen plays out over thirteen one-hour episodes in one season in 1980 during which they fight...

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The Assassination of Ryoma

1974 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Yoshio Harada · Renji Ishibashi · Rie Nakagawa · Yusaku Matsuda

Synopsis Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868). A samurai film in an ironic almost...

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Lost Love

1978 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Jun Fubuki · Jun Hamamura · Yoshio Harada · Yûdai Ishiyama

Synopsis In a melancholic seaside town, the bodies of two lovers who committed double suicide are found on the shore. A local reporter and the dead woman's pimp begin to investigate and find out that something very suspicious is going on.

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Preparation for the Festival

1975 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Jun Etô · Haruko Mabuchi · Hajime Hana · Yoshio Harada

Synopsis Matsori no junbi based on the novel of the same name by screenwriter Nakajima Takehiro, which takes its title from a picture by Paul Gauguin. This autobiographical film about a young man who dreams of becoming a screenwriter is set...

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Rônin-gai

1990 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Yoshio Harada · Kanako Higuchi · Shintarô Katsu

Synopsis It is a small rural village whose main attraction is a brothel where the towns people gather for drinks and joviality at day's end. This generally seems to result in much head-knocking and pitiful sword flailing as the poverty-stricken ronin...

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Namidabashi

1983 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Moe Kamura · Mariko Fuji · Susumu Fujita

Synopsis Based on the book of the same name.

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Tomorrow

1988 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Kaori Momoi · Kaho Minami · Nobuko Sendô · Michiko Araki

Synopsis On 9 August 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film describes the daily life of people the day before that fateful event, their feelings of joy and sadness. For them, tomorrow would never come.

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The Face of Jizo

2004 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Rie Miyazawa · Yoshio Harada · Tadanobu Asano

Synopsis Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He...

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