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Harbor Rats is a film of genre Drama directed by Kaneto Shindō with Yujiro Ishihara
Harbor Rats (1957)
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There are 80 films with the same actors, 32 films with the same director, 70499 with the same cinematographic genres (including 7525 with exactly the same 2 genres than Harbor Rats), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Harbor Rats, you will probably like those similar films :
The Wolves (1955)
, 2hDirected by Kaneto Shindō
Genres Drama
Actors Nobuko Otowa, Jun Hamamura, Sanae Takasugi, Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎), Taiji Tonoyama, Bokuzen Hidari
Rating69%
The Life of Chikuzan (1977)
, 1h59Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Baishō, Taiji Tonoyama, Kei Satō, Takuzo Kawatani, Akemi Negishi
Rating69%
The real Chikuzan appears on a stage in a small theatre, Shibuya Jean-Jean, and begins telling the story of his life. The scene changes to his childhood. Sadazo (Chikuzan's real name) becomes partially blind due to illness at the age of three. Growing up he is bullied. His mother Toyo (Nobuko Otowa) buys him a shamisen and apprentices him to a blind bosama, a begging shamisen player. He finds that although his teacher begs, cajoles and wheedles, pleading poverty, the teacher is actually rich.
Tree Without Leaves (1986)
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Genres Drama
Actors Keiju Kobayashi, Nobuko Otowa, Hideji Ōtaki, Taiji Tonoyama, Meiko Kaji
Rating77%
The film is a voiced-over narrative describing the early boyhood of a narrator, who is also depicted as an old man. The narrator describes his relationship with his mother (played by Nobuko Otowa) and his father (played by Ichiro Zaitsu).
Conquest (1965)
, 1h59Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Nobuko Otowa, Kyōko Kishida, Eitarō Ozawa, Isao Kimura, Jūkichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama
Rating71%
A bad man ("Akuto") wants to sleep with a woman (Kyoko Kishida). He spies on her with the help of Jiju (Nobuko Otowa). Then the woman's husband Rokuro decides to leave the court. He initially tells his wife to stay behind. The bad guy intends to sleep with the woman but she goes with her husband. Jiju leaves with them. The bad man orders his soldiers to follow them, and kill everyone except the woman. The bad man's soldiers catch up with them. One by one each of them combats the soldiers and dies, until finally only Rokuro is left. He fights bravely but is overwhelmed and finally dies.
The Naked Island (1960)
, 1h34Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement
Actors Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama
Rating79%
The film depicts a small family, a husband and wife and two sons, struggling to get by on a tiny island in the Seto Inland Sea, over the course of a year. They are the island's only occupants, and survive by farming. They must repeatedly carry the water for their plants and themselves in a row boat from a neighboring island.
Human (1962)
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Genres Drama
Themes Mermaids in film
Actors Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satō, Kei Yamamoto, Misako Watanabe
Rating73%
A ship loses all means of navigation in a storm. The crew become increasingly desperate as food and water run out. The captain, Kamegoro (Taiji Tonoyama), prays to the sailor's god Kompira to rescue them and rations their food and water. His grandson, Sankichi (Kei Yamamoto), follows his grandfather, but the other two crew members, Hachizo (Kei Sato) and Gorosuke (Nobuko Otowa) rebel and insist on eating their rations of food all at once.
Onibaba (1964)
, 1h43Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films
Actors Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satō, Taiji Tonoyama, Jūkichi Uno
Rating78%
The film is set somewhere in Japan, in the mid-fourteenth century (Hachi tells of an attack from general Takauji Ashikaga, who came to power in the 1330s).
Black Board (1986)
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Genres Drama
Actors Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Hisashi Igawa, Maiko Kawakami
Rating64%
Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns out to have been murdered by two of his schoolmates, who he had been bullying.
Kuroneko (1968)
, 1h39Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Films about cats, Ghost films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Nakamura Kichiemon II, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi, Kei Satō, Taiji Tonoyama
Rating76%
Yone (Nobuko Otowa) and her daughter-in-law Shige (Kiwako Taichi), who live in a house in a bamboo grove, are raped and murdered by soldiers, and their house is burned down. A black cat appears, licking at the bodies.
The Ditch (1954)
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Nobuko Otowa, Jūkichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama, Sō Yamamura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Tsutomu Shimomoto
Rating71%
Toku, a factory worker (Taiji Tonoyama) gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his friend Pin-chan (Jūkichi Uno). The two men try to get rid of her but then let her stay when she gives them money. Tsuru tells the people of the village that she lost her job due to a strike, then was robbed of her severance pay, then sold to a brothel in Tsuchiura. She ran away with a friend from Kawasaki. Toku and Pin-chan sell her to a geisha house and spend the money. She is thrown out. The owner demands his money back. Tsuru earns the money to pay their debt by working as a prostitute outside the station. The other prostitutes beat her. She fends them off with a policeman's revolver and is then shot dead by the police.