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
Plot 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...
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6.9
71 votes
Evil Spirits of Japan
1970 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuo Kuroki
Cast Yôsuke Enomoto · Tatsumi Hijikata · Eiko Horii · Hideo Kanze
Plot 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...
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6.6
33 votes
The Solar Thread
1963 · Documentary · 29 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuo Kuroki
Plot 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...
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Pickpocket
2000 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuo Kuroki
Cast Yoshio Harada · Jun Fubuki · Kirina Mano · Shuji Kashiwabara
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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Lost Love
1978 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuo Kuroki
Cast Jun Fubuki · Jun Hamamura · Yoshio Harada · Yûdai Ishiyama
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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Rônin-gai
1990 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuo Kuroki
Cast Yoshio Harada · Kanako Higuchi · Shintarô Katsu
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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
Plot 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...
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The Face of Jizo
2004 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuo Kuroki
Cast Rie Miyazawa · Yoshio Harada · Tadanobu Asano
Plot 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...
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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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