The best Yoshie Mizutani’s movies

Yoshie Mizutani

Yoshie Mizutani

16/04/1939 (85 años)
Today we present the best Yoshie Mizutani’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 Yoshie Mizutani’s movies.
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The Tale of Zatoichi Continues

The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
7.2/10
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love: his own brother. He must face in combat not only the pursuing retainers but his own flesh-and-blood.

A Lustful Man

A Lustful Man
6.5/10
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experience. As Yonosuke's salacious behavior brings much cause for shame to the family, his father eventually breaks relations with him. Expelled from the family, 19-year-old Yonosuke embarks on a pilgrimage of lust, traveling far and wide to acquaint himself with women of all walks.

Afraid To Die

Afraid To Die
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 22/03/1960
  • Character: Masako Katori
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.

The Radiant Prince

The Radiant Prince
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/10/1961
  • Character: Suetsumuhana
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.

The Lovelorn Geisha

The Lovelorn Geisha
6.7/10
  • Release: 12/07/1960
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself "already dead."

Enchanted Princess

Enchanted Princess
6.6/10
Once upon a time, Okuro(Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. One day after they'd disguised themselves as parasols, they were wrongly brought to the Racoon Palace, where the young racoon princess (also Ayako Wakao) made a mess around her arranged marriage with the beautiful racoon prince (Raizô Ichikawa). Pretty princess ran away. In order not to spoil the promising marriage, people tried to make use of resemblances between Okuro and the princess. Before long, Okuro and the Prince fell in love with each other...

Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman

Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 13/01/1968
  • Character: Osono
Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is the textbook example of a bad idea - especially when the collateral damage starts to tick him off.

Hero of the Red Light District

Hero of the Red Light District
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 03/09/1960
  • Character: Tamazuru
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.

Sleepy Eyes of Death 7: The Mask of the Princess

Sleepy Eyes of Death 7: The Mask of the Princess
6.6/10
  • Release: 12/03/1966
The masked daughter of the Shogun wants to kill a samurai who has seen her scarred face. She sends waves of ninja warriors to kill the samurai and plots diabolical schemes / ambushes without much success.

Everybody, Let's Go!

Everybody, Let's Go!
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/08/1967
  • Character: Miyuki
A new stationmaster is appointed to a dilapidated local line. On top of the failing local line feuding for hot spring customers with a bus company looking to start a new route, they even get involved in a disappearance and a murder...

Sakura Official

Sakura Official
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case of his career. In a masterfully woven tale, he has to face the truth about his estranged father’s possible involvement in a nefarious plot to take over rule of the Hizen Shimabara clan by assassinating the rightful lord, his son, and install one of Shogun Ienari’s offspring as daimyo.

Bad Reputation Returns

Bad Reputation Returns
6.4/10
  • Release: 17/12/1961

Stolen Pleasure

Stolen Pleasure
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/03/1962
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adaptation by Kaneto Shindo, Masumura Yasuzo directs. A battle of woman competing for the same man. Masuko (Ayako Wakao) is the number one hostess at a cabaret, living with her lover, ... but finds out that he has a wife......

Three Young Samurai

Three Young Samurai
5.9/10
During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When they next meet they have all joined opposing sides.

The Maid Story

The Maid Story
8.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/06/1963
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.

Flowers of Chivalry

Flowers of Chivalry
  • Release: 27/12/1961

Tough Guy

Tough Guy
6.9/10
  • Release: 30/09/1961
  • Character: Kotoito
Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi and Sada set out to rescue her.

The Dedicated Gunman

The Dedicated Gunman
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 13/01/1965
  • Character: Yoko Misawa
Third film in the "Inu" series.

Song of Sado

Song of Sado
  • Release: 19/07/1961

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