Hiroshi Akutagawa
Popularity:0.145
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1920-03-20
Place of Birth:Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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Also Known As:Хироси Акутагава

The Rickshaw Man (1958)
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...

The Wild Geese (1953)
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

A Thousand and One Nights (1969)
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and...

Hōryū-ji (1958)
This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temples. Horyu-ji, in the small town of Ikaruga outside...

Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953)
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments.

Kyoto (1969)
Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha residence, the Katsura Imperial Villa, and the Gion...

Dodes'ka-den (1970)
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...

Night Butterflies (1957)
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

How Sorrowful (1956)
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

The Twilight Story (1960)
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher...

The Valley Between Love and Death (1954)
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Eyes of Children (1956)
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds...

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970)
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

Jose Torres II (1965)
This is the sequel to Jose Torres (1959), the portrayal of Puerto Rican boxer Jose Torres, who won a silver medal in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. We...

Till We Meet Again (1950)
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations (1969)
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Portrait of Chieko (1967)
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her...

Haru no Sakamichi (1971)
The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.

Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1966)
The chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late Heian and early Kamakura general of the Minamoto clan of...