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Lonely Heart is a film of genre Drama directed by Kon Ichikawa with Yutaka Mizutani
Lonely Heart (1981)
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Add to a movie listKofuku (幸福, Kōfuku), also known as "Lonely Heart" is a 1981 mystery film directed by Kon Ichikawa, based upon the 87th Precinct series' novel, Lady, Lady I Did It (1961) by Ed McBain. The film stars Yutaka Mizutani, Toshiyuki Nagashima and Rie Nakahara in a police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.
^ Maslin, Janet. "Kofuku: Japan's 'Lonely Heart'." 18 September 1982. New York Times, The. [1]
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, 1h45Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
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Rating67%
Kikuji, beau garçon mais de caractère faible, est sous la coupole d'une grande-mère et d'une mère tyranniques. Celles-ci dirigent, à Osaka, une maison de chaussettes traditionnelles, les tabis. Elles obligent le jeune homme à épouser une candidate « convenable. » Mais, celle-ci ayant donné naissance à un garçon, il doit la répudier et renoncer à se remarier. En 1945, lorsque le magasin est détruit par un bombardement allié, la grand-mère se suicide. Kikuji se ressaisit et décide de reconstruire le bâtiment.
A Woman's Testament (1960)
, 1h40Directed by Kon Ichikawa, Yasuzō Masumura, Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Genres Drama
Actors Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Sachiko Hidari, Fujiko Yamamoto, Eiji Funakoshi
Rating66%
This is a series of three stories revolving around women. The first story is about a young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. She has what seems like a good plan for a strong financial future; she is investing in a company on the one hand, and on the other, taking action to snare the son of the company's owner in marriage. In the second story, a young woman is employed by a real estate agent in order to convince male clients to invest in worthless property, usually by bathing with them. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no financial worries. But when she falls in love with a forger, she opts to wait for him after he is sent to prison. This causes trouble for her in family and society, but she ignores them despite the pressure.
Her Brother (1960)
, 1h38Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Keiko Kishi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Masayuki Mori, Kyōko Kishida, Jun Hamamura
Rating68%
Hekiro et Gen sont frère et sœur, ils s'entendent bien malgré un foyer peu chaleureux. Le père, un écrivain qui connait un certain succès, passe ses journées enfermé dans son bureau à travailler ses manuscrits. La belle-mère, une bigote chrétienne, est atteinte d'une forme sévère de rhumatismes qui la fait souffrir du pied et de la main gauche. Gen est une jeune fille au fort tempérament et responsable, elle supplée sa belle-mère handicapée dans les tâches quotidiennes et s'occupe avec affection de son frère Hekiro. Ce dernier, ne trouve pas sa place dans ce foyer et fait les 400 coups, entre bagarres au lycée, vol, dettes qu'il contracte dans une salle de billard ou chez un loueur de hors-bord. Cependant, malgré la confiance entre frère et sœur, certains problèmes surgissent. Quand Hekiro est atteint d'une tuberculose incurable, il s'attriste de voir sa sœur envisager de se marier. Le jour de sa mort, elle tâche de supporter courageusement le chagrin et la fatigue.
Odd Obsession (1959)
, 1h47Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Machiko Kyō, Ganjirō Nakamura, Saburo Date, Tatsuya Nakadai, Jun Hamamura, Tanie Kitabayashi
Rating68%
A man who suspects his wife is having an affair with his daughter's fiance places the two in dangerous situations in order to satisfy his voyeuristic curiosity.
Hole in One (1957)
, 1h43Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Machiko Kyō, Eiji Funakoshi, Sō Yamamura, Jun Hamamura, Sumiko Hidaka, Shintarō Ishihara
Rating69%
A female reporter, Nagako Kita (Machiko Kyo) is fired for writing about police corruption. To make money she hides while a weekly magazine publishes photos of her, and offers a prize to the person who discovers her. A group of three bank embezzlers, So Yamamura, Eiji Funakoshi, and Sotoji Mukui (Fujio Harumoto) employ Mukui's younger sister Fukiko as a fake employee at the bank and plan to make her disappear when the real woman appears again and blame the crime on her.
, 1h1Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Susumu Fujita, Hideko Takamine, Haruo Tanaka, Kazuo Hasegawa, Yatarō Kurokawa, Isuzu Yamada
Rating27%
An Actor's Revenge (1963)
, 1h53Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Films about television
Actors Kazuo Hasegawa, Ayako Wakao, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Shintarō Katsu, Eiji Funakoshi
Rating72%
Three men, Sansai Dobe (Ganjirō Nakamura), Kawaguchiya (Saburō Date) and Hiromiya (Eijirō Yanagi) are responsible for the deaths of seven-year-old Yukitarō’s mother and father. Yukitarō is adopted and brought up by Kikunojō Nakamura (Chūsha Ichikawa), the actor-manager of an Osaka kabuki troupe. The adult Yukitarō (Kazuo Hasegawa) becomes an onnagata, a male actor who plays female roles. He takes the stage name Yukinojō. Like many of the great onnagata, particularly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he wears women’s clothes and uses the language and mannerisms of a woman offstage as well as on. Many years later, the troupe pays a visit to Edo, where the three men responsible for his parents’ deaths now live. Yukinojō brings about their deaths by means of various stratagems, then, apparently overcome by what he has done, retires from the stage and disappears, no-one knows where. The events of the film are coolly observed and sardonically commented on by the Robin-Hood-like thief Yamitarō, also played by Hasegawa.
Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)
, 1h28Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Origin Japon
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Rating67%
Fires on the Plain (1959)
, 1h44Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis, Kyū Sazanka, Yoshio Inaba, Jun Hamamura
Rating78%
In February 1945, the demoralized Imperial Japanese Army on Leyte is in desperate straits, cut off from support and supplies by the Allies, who are in the process of liberating the Philippine island. Private Tamura has tuberculosis and is seen as a useless burden to his company, even though it has been reduced to little more than a platoon in strength. He is ordered to commit suicide if he is unable to get admitted to a field hospital. A sympathetic soldier gives him several yams from the unit's meager supplies.
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, 1h39Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Ganjirō Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tamao Nakamura, Jun Hamamura, Tanie Kitabayashi
Rating70%
Told in an intricate flashback structure, Enjo dramatizes the psychological collapse of Goichi (Raizo Ichikawa), a young Buddhist acolyte from a dysfunctional family who arrives at a Kyoto temple - the Golden Pavilion - for further study.