The best Kyōko Kishida’s movies

Kyōko Kishida

Kyōko Kishida

29/04/1930- 17/12/2006
Today we present the best Kyōko Kishida’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 Kyōko Kishida’s movies.
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Woman in the Dunes

Woman in the Dunes
8.5/10
An entomologist suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village.

The Face of Another

The Face of Another
7.9/10
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

An Autumn Afternoon

An Autumn Afternoon
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/11/1962
  • Character: 'Kaoru' no Madame
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
8.8/10
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.

A Thousand and One Nights

A Thousand and One Nights
6.5/10
Beautifully constructed, 1001 Nights stays true to the lush and mysterious backdrop of the well known and age old story. Tezuka remolds the story into an escapist fantasy where a 60s-era working man is transported back to an era of entirely fictitious Arabian details. Seemingly at odds with itself, 1001 Nights consistently unfolds in a way that combines Playboy graphics, Arabian rug design and traditional Japanese scroll paintings. Sound like a strange mix? You bet and along the way we experience some of the great cultural juxtapositions that makes Tezuka the unpredictable style it is. Source: MAL

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
7.4/10
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.

Manji

Manji
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/07/1964
  • Character: Sonoko Kakiuchi
The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

Tokyo Bordello

Tokyo Bordello
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 13/06/1987
  • Character: Narrator
A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owners of the brothel has hopes to make her a great new addition which will attract the richest of customers. But after several months of training, she tries to flee Yoshiwara when the time has come for her to take her first customer...

Ninja, a Band of Assassins

Ninja, a Band of Assassins
7/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/12/1962
  • Character: Inone
Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.

Toward the Terra

Toward the Terra
6.5/10
A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.

Curse

Curse
5.9/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 18/06/1977
  • Character: Kimiyo Tarumi
In a rural village with a poorly understood but long standing curse from the Dog God, outsiders from a major Tokyo mining corporation scouting for uranium destroy a small shrine and crush a dog under their jeep wheels. After one of the mining company employees marries the daughter of a prominent member of the village, the Dog God’s wrath boils over and people start to die. The village girl and mining company employee start a new life in Tokyo, but the Dog God possesses her and she is deemed mentally ill. The couple returns to the village to perform an exorcism, but it is unsuccessful. As the body count accumulates, the cause of and remedy for the curse becomes more opaque.

The Inugamis

The Inugamis
7.2/10
  • Genre: HorrorMystery
  • Release: 16/10/1976
  • Character: Kakin Miyakawa
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.

Heaven and Earth

Heaven and Earth
6.8/10
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry. Younger and less brutal, Kagetora must find the strength to be as brutal as his opponent, but at what cost?

Rikyu

Rikyu
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/09/1989
  • Character: His wife
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan's most powerful warlord, unifying the country. Rikyu, through the tea ceremony and floral arrangements, tempers his lord, helping Hideyoshi focus on a single flower or be in a simple room where the shape of a cup is of most importance. But other forces fuel Hideyoshi's ambitions: the Portuguese bring a globe and guns, and he believes he can conquer Korea and China. When Rikyu raises doubts about invading China, Hideyoshi demands an apology, and Rikyu himself must find courage in the way of tea.

Sure Death 4

Sure Death 4
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/06/1987
  • Character: Benten
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in turn by an unseen force. He begins to suspect the work of assassins, but whose side are they on?

The Sea and Poison

The Sea and Poison
7.5/10
Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.

Detective Story

Detective Story
6.3/10
Naomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a washed-up gumshoe who's hired by Naomi's father to bodygard his daughter until she leaves. Shuichi finds the job annoying and wants to quit. But he also has a screwed-up ex and alimony to pay. Things go from bad to worse when Naomi and Shuichi stumble upon a murder which might involve the yakuza. They decide to find out who committed the murder but God knows what it will lead to.

Vengeance for Sale

Vengeance for Sale
6.5/10
In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as Sukeroku the Helper, a ‘cool and rambling yakuza’ that has made a business out of helping victims carry out their revenge. When he returns to his hometown to pay a visit to his mother’s grave he meets a deadly ronin who carries a secret which eventually leads him into a vendetta of his own.

Lullaby of Death

Lullaby of Death
5.7/10
Following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them.

Journey Into Solitude

Journey Into Solitude
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/10/1972
  • Character: Mama, the girl's mother
Bored with her school life, a 16-year-old student leaves home to take a trip along the Pacific Ocean. After meeting with a theatre group she falls sick and is rescued by a fisherman with who she shares her life with.

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