Hiroshi Akutagawa
Total Credits at Criticker: 10 (Actor)
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The second part of a portrait of the humble and mild-mannered Olympic athlete and light heavyweight boxer (filmref.com)
Three short tales from stories by Ichiyo Higuchi. In one, a young woman is degraded by her family after an arranged marriage. Another deals with the troubles heaped upon a young servant by her family and the wealthy people who employ her. Yet another tells of a prostitute and her hopes of finding a new, respectable life. (imdb)
Character study revolving around four characters: a sock salesman, his wife and their two young lodgers.
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself taking care of a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly. (imdb)
In 1960, during the wedding ceremony between Nozawa, a journalist and former student radical of the 1950's, and Reiko, a current activist, some of the people present recall the student demonstrations against the AMPO treaty, attributing responsibility and faults one another.
It concerns the story of a poor water seller in Baghdad who stumbles his way through ali baba and his 40 thieves, the tower of Babel, sinbad the sailor, the island of the sirens and many others stories. (imdb)
"The Mistress" is the story of a young woman whose relationships with men in the past have been stormy, and who finds herself once again in a bad situation. She becomes the mistress of a wealthy moneylender, believing him to be a merchant who has been recently widowed and that he will soon marry her. She discovers his lies but cannot leave him because of the money he has given to her elderly father.
In 1936 Japan, a married man begins a relationship with a prostitute who is working to support her ailing mother.
