Izumi Hara
Acting
Biography
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Born: February 11, 1905
Place of Birth: Matsue, Shimane prefecture, Japan
Known For
The Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devil
The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player Kôji, control the international casino empire and use the profits to achieve world domination. But Japan's most famous left hand knows what to do.
Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
Tampopo
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
The River Fuefuki
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
Profound Desires of the Gods
Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.
Ballad of Orin
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
The Time of Reckoning
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.
Young Boss
After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.
Filmography
as Old Woman
as Old Woman with Urn
as Old Woman Pressing Camembert Cheese
as Grandma in Yonakuni Island
as Old woman
as Han Inumaru
as Grandmother of Mitsuo
as Haru Asai
as Narration (voice)
as Kiku Watanabe
as Old Woman
as Okita
as Old Woman Osono
as Phantom of old woman
as Kaneyo
as Tose
as Unari Ryu
as Shrine Maiden
as Spider woman
as Hisa
as Hatsu
as Kiyo, Ichiro's mother
as Akiko's mother
as Sawamura Fuchô
as Aobamaru's wife
as Marine no Otaki
as Okami
as Okane
as Taka (as Senko Hara)
as Ichiro's mother