Direction: Kazuo Kuroki
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Kazuo Kuroki. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 15
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...
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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...
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6.6
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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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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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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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The Youth of Kamiya Etsuko
2006 · Movie · 111 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuo Kuroki
Cast Tomoyo Harada · Manami Honjou · Kaoru Kobayashi · Matsuoka Shunsuke
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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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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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Kyuba no koibito
1969 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuo Kuroki
Cast Obdulia Plasencia · Masahiko Tsugawa · Gloria Lee · Armando Urbach
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