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The Ditch is a film of genre Drama directed by Kaneto Shindō with Nobuko Otowa
The Ditch (1954)
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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.Actors
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, 1h59Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
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, 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
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, 1h39Directed by Kaneto Shindō
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Rating76%
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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.
Children of Hiroshima (1952)
, 1h37Directed by Kaneto Shindō
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Genres Drama, War, Documentary
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
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, 1h40Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Nobuko Otowa, Haruko Sugimura, Takeshi Katō, Seiji Miyaguchi, Mayumi Ogawa, Kei Satō
Rating70%
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Avalanche (1952)
, 1h30Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Genres Drama
Actors Susumu Fujita, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Mito, Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎), Taiji Tonoyama, Saburo Date
Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)
, 1h55Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Genres Drama
Actors Jūkichi Uno, Nobuko Otowa, Eitarō Ozawa, Koreya Senda, Taketoshi Naito, Taiji Tonoyama
Rating66%
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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%
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, 2h11Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
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Rating70%
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