Date of birth: 1940-02-11
Place of birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Jūrō Kara, 大靏 義英

Japanese playwright, theater and film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and songwriter.

1998-05-17
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war

1967-03-01
Based on the factual case of a young man who broke into a nurses' home in Chicago, mutilating and ki

1969-02-15
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a b

1986-04-19
Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out

1991-04-20
Professor Sarusawa and his psychic daughter Mai live together after the suicide of the Professor's w

1995-09-10
Haida, once a famous private detective, is now down and out and running out of reasons to live. One

1994-07-09
A coming-of-age story about two runners, Kenji and Ryuji, tangled in love, loss, and rivalry, as the

1971-02-13
Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a gei

1977-10-22
Using the Genpei War as its theme, this work depicts the nature of poor Shirabyoshi Tokiwa Gozen who

2009-04-11
An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno

1977-10-01
In the midst of a match, a successful boxer - Hayato, has had enough of the sport. He lets himself g

1979-10-20
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in

1970-10-31
Based on the comic by George Akiyama

1976-05-29
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean wome

2002-11-02
When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble o

1969-10-16
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assass

1996-06-22
A couple years have passed, Matsuzaki is divorced and has a daughter and is still up to his old comp

1956-10-01
A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

1973-01-29
In a struggling small theater troupe, director Inuo pressures an actor to perform a death role with