Eimei Esumi
Acting
Biography
Actor.
Born: October 5, 1935
Place of Birth: Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Known For
The Roads Men Travel
The series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds facing many difficult questions. It features a guard who survived a suicide mission during the war and his conflicts, rebellion, empathy and reconciliation with the younger generation born after the war.
The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.
By Player
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.
Professional Killers
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
Eureka
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
You Can Succeed, Too
A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
Kuroneko
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
The Man Who Stole the Sun
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
Dodes'ka-den
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.
Filmography
as Man in restaurant
as Seiji Sawai
as Gomesu Tonda (voice)
as Villager
as Director General
as Syôichirô Yamazaki
as Takeda
as Recreation Center CEO - Yoshie's Husband
as Ichigaya Aide-de-Camp
as Kentaro Tamiya
as Takei(竹井)
as Shigemune
as Shin'ichirô Sakuraba
as Shun'ichirô - the Director of a Hospital
as Butler
as Teacher Marukido
as Umezu
as Keiichi Muraki
as Keisuke Minegishi
as Egawa
as Gunji
as Yoneshige
as Fujishima
as Tôru Kitami
as Genzô Sugimori
as Kazuya Shimanaka
as Tonomiya
as Sugiya
as Hondo
as Command sergeant major Shindo
as Koroku Hitomi
as Yasuo Shimamoto
as Shin Adachi
as Realtor
as Narumi
as Kishizô Ishida
as Film director
as Kimiko's 1st Customer
as Oofuji
as Kôzô Kidô
as Komiyama
as Shinsuke
as Sadanosuke
as Gomame
as Detective
as Makino
as Subordinate
as Senzaki
as Young man in the village
as Otsuka
as Nakahara
as Machida
as Ogasawara
as Gorosuke
as Gorô Minami