Movies: Masao Shimizu

  • 1965
    Gambling is My Destiny

    Gambling is My Destiny (1965)

    Gambling is My Destiny

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    Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, he hides his identity and saves his girlfriend's sister from certain death. Filmed on location on the scenic Manazuru Peninsula, the action is set ami...

    Gambling is My Destiny
  • 1943
    Suicide Troops of the Watchtower

    Suicide Troops of the Watchtower (1943)

    Suicide Troops of the Watchtower

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    Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by "bandits."...

    Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
  • 1954
    The Street Without Sun

    The Street Without Sun (1954)

    The Street Without Sun

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    The Street Without Sun
  • 1958
    Forbidden Lips

    Forbidden Lips (1958)

    Forbidden Lips

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    A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student....

    Forbidden Lips
  • 1964
    The Gambling Samurai

    The Gambling Samurai (1964)

    The Gambling Samurai

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    The Gambling Samurai
  • 1968
    The Night before Pearl Harbor

    The Night before Pearl Harbor (1968)

    The Night before Pearl Harbor

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    The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School....

    The Night before Pearl Harbor
  • 1967
    Burning Nature

    Burning Nature (1967)

    Burning Nature

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    Film from 1967....

    Burning Nature
  • 1950
    Duel in the Sun

    Duel in the Sun (1950)

    Duel in the Sun

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    A film by Kiyoshi Saeki...

    Duel in the Sun
  • 1969
    The Elder Sister

    The Elder Sister (1969)

    The Elder Sister

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    Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight....

    The Elder Sister
  • 1961
    The Rambler under the Southern Cross

    The Rambler under the Southern Cross (1961)

    The Rambler under the Southern Cross

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    In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip....

    The Rambler under the Southern Cross
  • 1953
    Sunflower Girl

    Sunflower Girl (1953)

    Sunflower Girl

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    Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When t...

    Sunflower Girl
  • 1954
    My Pistol Is Quick

    My Pistol Is Quick (1954)

    My Pistol Is Quick

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    My Pistol Is Quick
  • 1969
    The Wild Sea

    The Wild Sea (1969)

    The Wild Sea

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    Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But the outbreak of violence by radical students and blockade of classrooms make studying impossible and Yo...

    The Wild Sea
  • 1951
    Story of a Beloved Wife

    Story of a Beloved Wife (1951)

    Story of a Beloved Wife

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    Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles....

    Story of a Beloved Wife
  • 1942
    Wings of Victory

    Wings of Victory (1942)

    Wings of Victory

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    Wings of Victory
  • 1952
    Adolescence

    Adolescence (1952)

    Adolescence

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    Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast....

    Adolescence
  • 1948
    The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

    The Most Beautiful Day of My Life (1948)

    The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

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    Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob....

    The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
  • 1959
    Shadow of Intimidation

    Shadow of Intimidation (1959)

    Shadow of Intimidation

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    Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts and disperse. However, one by one, the henchmen die. The last survivor, Sima Kyuhei, gets a call and is...

    Shadow of Intimidation
  • 1951
    Karate Sanshiro

    Karate Sanshiro (1951)

    Karate Sanshiro

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    Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging house girl who is in love with him and in the midst of a confusion challenges Yamauchi Tatsuhiko to a fight, forgetting the true core of martial arts, t...

    Karate Sanshiro
  • 1961
    Dawn of a Canvas

    Dawn of a Canvas (1961)

    Dawn of a Canvas

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    Dawn of a Canvas