The best Keizô Kawasaki’s 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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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.

Warning From Space

Warning From Space
4.7/10
The citizens of Tokyo panic when they see UFOs in the sky. The aliens are benign, however, and have come to warn of a runaway planetoid known as Planet R that's on a collision course with Earth. As Planet R approaches, the Earth's atmosphere begins to heat up, and mankind must race to construct a weapon to destroy it.

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.

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.

A Woman's Testament

A Woman's Testament
6.8/10
  • Release: 14/01/1960
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.

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.

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.

Sound in the Mist

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

The Makioka Sisters

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

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.

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.

The Ginza Three Boys

The Ginza Three Boys
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/01/1961
  • Character: Ichirô Takarai
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl.

Bury Me Deep

Bury Me Deep
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 08/06/1963
  • Character: Ichiro Akutagawa

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...

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

Okoto and Sasuke

Okoto and Sasuke
  • Release: 01/01/1961
  • Character: Rintaro
One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

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 Crowded Train

The Crowded Train
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/03/1957
  • Character: Taro Washiba
Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.

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.

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