#Eimei Esumi

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Tôkyô nagaremono (Tokyo Drifter, 1966)

"Otsuka! You call yourself a yakuza?"

"Money and power rule now. Honour means nothing!"

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Yumeno Kyusaku’s Girl Hell / Yumeno Kyūsaku no shōjo jigoku (1977, Masaru Konuma)

夢野久作の少女地獄　（小沼勝）

Also known as: Raging Hell Fires / The Woman from Mars

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Bad movie I have Gate of Flesh 1964

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実録阿部定, Noboru Tanaka (1975)

Cinematography: Masaru Mori | Japan

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jitsuroku abe sada (jp, tanaka 75)

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Joe Shishido in A Colt Is My Passport (Takashi Nomura, 1967) Cast: Joe Shishido, Jerry Fujio, Chitose Kobayashi, Ryotaro Suji, Kanjuro Arashi, Shoki Fukae, Eimei Esumi, Jun Hongo, Akio Miyabe, Toyoko Takechi, Takamaru Sasaki, Asao Uchida, Zeko Nakamura, Kojiro Kusanagi, Zenji Yamada. Screenplay: Hideichi Nagahara, Nobuo Yamada, based on a novel by Shenji Fujiwara. Cinematography: Shigeyoshi Mine. Production design: Toshiyuki Matsui. Film editing: Akira Suzuki. Music: Harumi Ibe. I didn't see any Colts in A Colt Is My Passport, but there are several rifles, pistols, and shotguns, some dynamite, and the protagonist carries a Beretta, so I suspect the title is a bit of poetic license designed to make the Japanese gangster into the equivalent of the gunfighter of the American Wild West. Harumi Ibe's music score, with its guitar, harmonica, and whistler evoking Ennio Morricone's scores for Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns, seems designed for the same effect. But why court comparisons? The Japanese gangster movie is its own well-defined genre, and Joe Shishido is its superstar. In A Colt Is My Passport he's Shuji, a hit man hired to off a crooked businessman, which he does with cool efficiency. Unfortunately, the guys who hired him immediately turn against Shuji, so he's soon on the run, along with his sidekick, Shun, played by the Anglo-Japanese actor and singer Jerry Fujio. (Fujio even gets to croon a ballad at one point in the movie, slowing down the otherwise non-stop action.) The movie is filled with James Bond-like gadgets and car chases: At one point, Shuji and Sun find themselves kidnapped and thrown into the back seat of a car that they have had rigged with an extra braking system, apparently just in case they find themselves in such a predicament. Engaging the brake causes the car to skid, throwing the bad guys into the windshield and knocking them out. And so it goes until Shun is captured and beaten to a pulp, whereupon Shuji bargains with the bad guys, giving himself up to them so Shun and the pretty motel waitress Mina (Chitose Kobayashi), who has helped them, can escape. Apparently the bad guys trust Shuji enough that he has time to work on a way of defeating them: He rigs up some booby traps for the showdown they have arranged on a landfill, and the movie ends with Shuji staggering away from the carnage. It's all great fun in that peculiarly heartless and mindless way that such thrillers have.

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Promotional photo for YOUTH OF THE BEAST [ 野獣の青春, Yajū no Seishun ] (1963).  A film directed by Suzuki Seijun [ 鈴木 清順 ].  Starring Shishido Jo [ 宍戸 錠 ], Watanabe Misako [ 渡辺美佐子 ], Kawachi Tamio [ 川地 民夫 ], Kobayashi Akiji [ 小林昭二 ], Kaneko Nobuo [ 金子信雄 ], Go Eiji [ 郷 鍈治 ], Abe Yuriko [ 阿部 百合子 ], and Esumi Eimei [ 江角 英明 ].

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World Of Geisha (1973) watch pinku eiga

World Of Geisha (1973) watch pinku eiga

The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke spends his days in the arms of geishas, paying little heed to the events happening around him. less

Directing: Tatsumi Kumashiro Writing: Kafu Nagai – Tatsumi Kumashiro Stars: Junko Miyashita – Moeko Ezawa – Eimei Esumi Release Date: 19…

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Japanuary Day 3 (1/2) Youth of the Beast (1963)

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Youth of the Beast (Review)

Youth of the Beast (Review)

Youth of the Beast aka 野獣の青春 aka Yaju no Seishun aka Wild Youth 1963 Written by Ichiro Ikeda and Tadaki Yamazaki Based on the novel by Haruhiko Oyabu Directed by Seijun Suzuki A random stranger coming to town to pit two rival groups against each other is a classic story done well in a variety of genres, and with Youth of the Beast we get the story set in the swinging 1960s yakuza beat, with…

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Bad movie I have Tokyo Drifter 1966 aka Tôkyô nagaremono

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Tomoko Hamakawa and Tamio Kawaji in Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966) Cast: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawaji, Ryuji Kita, Hideaki Nitani, Eiji Go, Tomoko Hamakawa, Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Isao Tamagawa, Eimei Esumi. Screenplay: Yasunori Kawauchi. Cinematography: Shigeyoshi Mine. Production design: Takeo Kimura. Film editing: Shinya Inoue. Music: Hajime Kaburagi. Imagine if The Godfather had been made in the mid-1960s with someone like Frankie Avalon as Michael Corleone, interpolated pop songs ("An Offer He Can't Refuse," perhaps?), and sets in comic book colors that look like they were designed for a Freed Unit musical at MGM in the 1950s. Then you have something like Tokyo Drifter, a jaw-dropping Japanese gangster movie directed by the irrepressible Seijun Suzuki. There's no summarizing a plot that has so many wild excursions, but it basically follows the attempts of a young hitman who has his yakuza boss's approval to go straight -- or so he thinks, until the boss changes his mind. None of this suggests where the movie's going to go, including the shootout between Tetsuya (Tetsuya Watari) and his almost Doppelgänger nemesis Tatsuzo (Tamio Kawaji) on the railroad tracks with an approaching train in a snowstorm. Or the free-for-all fistfight in a bar designed to look like a saloon set for an American Western, during which the bar is almost completely demolished. For most of the film, including the train track shootout, Tetsuya wears a robin's egg blue suit with white shoes, though he later changes into other pastels. Those who find Tokyo Drifter a bit much (as the studio that employed Suzuki did) dismiss it as style over substance, but it's undeniably fascinating.