Bokuzen Hidari
Acting
Biography
Bokuzen Hidari (左 卜全 Hidari Bokuzen, 20 February 1894 - 26 May 1971) was a Japanese actor and comedian born in Kotesashi Village (now part of Tokorozawa), Iruma District, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. He appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, The Lower Depths and Ikiru. Hidari was famous among Japanese audiences for his portrayals of meek, downtrodden men, and although a teetotaller, was renowned for his convincing drunk scenes (see esp. "Ikiru").
Born: February 20, 1894
Place of Birth: Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan
Known For
Sex and Life
Dr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with all possible and impossible questions. Because Dr. Mikami's specialty is sexual clarification... The world's best-selling sex literature was filmed here in a manner close to the original. And the openness of the image shows the shocking conflicts of young people in scenes that were never filmed. Shocking documents about sex life from the doctor's office.
The Man Who Came to Port
An Ishiro Honda film.
Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Lord Mito: All Star Version
In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later, another fire broke out, this time in Komagome, burning down the two gates of Asakusa and Sujikai, and continuing on into the night. As the government Elders consider evidence that these fires were arson, a fire breaks out in Hirakawa-cho, outside of Hanzo Gate. Nishonmaru catches on fire and burns down completely. When this rash of fires even strikes Kyoto, the task of finding who’s behind the arson, and stopping them falls to the Shogun’s uncle, the Elder Lord of Mito. Together with his trusted bodyguards, Kaku and Suke, the trio set of to save Japan from this scourge of evil. Featuring virtually all of their most famous stars, this is the best film in the Toei series about Mito Komon, one of Japan’s most popular historical figures who traveled through the country incognito to check on the people and fight injustice.
Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
Forever a Woman
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of her life, she meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her life.
Two in the Shadow
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejirō must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
Three Outlaw Samurai
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
Filmography
as Shima-san
as Janitor
as Alfata Jinbei
as Old man
as Boilerman
as Jinbei
as Koji Minagawa
as Aso Chairman
as Toku
as Gohei
as Police chief
as Jinbei
as Arita Hidezo
as Obata Seiichi
as Gosuke
as Gosuke
as Clerk at "Iyami-yu"
as Momochi
as Old Farmer
as Takichi
as Priest
as Patient A
as Kyubei
as Sakusan
as Kuroda (President of Taisho Paper)
as Otsuka Kihei
as 古屋老人
as 杉本
as Sakamoto, the Expert
as Prof. Ishiwaki
as Kinnosuke Togura
as Prof. Ishiwaki
as Chairman Yokoyama
as Jiya
as University Staff
as Clerk at Haruyoshi Inn
as God Amenominaka
as Old man
as Salesman
as Gen-ji
as Doan
as Hidematsu Yasufuku
as Kōbei
as Kōbei, Yukichi’s Grandfather
as Nakahara
as Village Head Akamatsu
as Teacher
as Doan
as Tamaru Mondonosho
as Awa-no-Kami
as Kahei the Pilgrim
as Doctor Doan
as Heikichi Kobayashi
as Old man
as Hide's Husband
as Landowner
as Hikoichi Okubo
as Factory owner (uncredited)
as Yohei
as Kan-jii
as Ohara
as Section chief
as Genji
as Gosaku
as Riu's father
as Karube
as Peasant
as Drunk