The best Keizô Kawasaki’s drama movies

Keizô Kawasaki

Keizô Kawasaki

01/07/1933- 21/07/2015
Today we present the best Keizô Kawasaki’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Keizô Kawasaki’s movies.
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The Blue Sky Maiden

The Blue Sky Maiden
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/10/1957
  • Character: Ryōsuke Hirooka
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.

Buddha

Buddha
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/10/1961
  • Character: Upali
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.

The Loyal 47 Ronin

The Loyal 47 Ronin
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 01/04/1958
  • Character: Shinzaemon Katsuta
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.

Night River

Night River
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1956
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

Punishment Room

Punishment Room
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/06/1956
  • Character: Takejima
Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

The Radiant Prince

The Radiant Prince
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/10/1961
  • Character: To no Chujo
Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new tale of his further romantic adventures. Young Genji, the emperor’s illegitimate son cuts a swath through the women of the imperial court, while still mourning the spirit of his late mother who died while he was still a child. Driven to an obsession with the emperor’s new concubine, Lady Fujitsubo, whose resemblance to his late mother originally caught the eye of the emperor, young Genji embarks upon a reckless affair with her that could cost him his life.

Closing Time

Closing Time
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/04/1962
  • Character: Hideya Hata

An Innocent Witch

An Innocent Witch
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/10/1965
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions.

Beauty the Enemy

Beauty the Enemy
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 12/08/1959
  • Character: Shusaku Tanimura
In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.

Love and Greed

Love and Greed
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/02/1964
Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail.

Afraid To Die

Afraid To Die
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 22/03/1960
  • Character: Shoichi Koizumi
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan. But their exit proves more difficult than planned when their rival clan steps in to exact revenge.

Sound in the Mist

Sound in the Mist
8.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/11/1956
  • Character: Masao Yagi

On This Earth

On This Earth
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/11/1957
  • Character: Tokio, Wakako's brother
1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Blind Devotion

Blind Devotion
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 08/03/1961
  • Character: Mitsuki
Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

The Makioka Sisters

The Makioka Sisters
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/01/1959
1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

Advance Patrol

Advance Patrol
6.9/10
In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...

Triangle Moods

Triangle Moods
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/05/1961
  • Character: Kôkichi Murata
Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, businessman Kokichi and Sanpei Pachinko.

Fool's Love

Fool's Love
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/04/1960
  • Character: Yutaro Hamada
A young man (Eiji Funakoshi) lavishes his complete attention and resources on a beautiful young girl (Junko Kano) who was picked up in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo.

Hiroshima Heartache

Hiroshima Heartache
6.6/10
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.

Itohan Monogatari

Itohan Monogatari
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/01/1957
  • Character: Hisao
Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.

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