Kiichi Sonobe
Acting
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Known For
The Whispered City
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
Bright Future
Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.
The Motive
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.
Locked Out
Hiroshi, a man wandering in rural Japan aimlessly, encounters 6 years-old Keita, who triggers a conflict between conscience and a dark violent nature.
Sodom the Killer
Bad things happen when innocent blood is shed. In the early 1700s, Lord Sodom Ichibei is happily celebrating his wedding day when his wife-to-be suddenly dies. In his search for an explanation, he kills any and every suspect he comes across. When Lord Ichibei tortures and kills two innocent girls, their death brings about a curse on the Sodom family. Three hundred years later, one of Sodom's descendents, Ichiro, is also set to be married. But one of the innocent victims has been reincarnated as Ichiro's sister and she kills everyone at the wedding. This transforms Ichiro into the evil and vengeful "Sodom The Killer", a cursed man hell-bent on slaughter and the world's destruction...
Desire & A Knife
Tomomi runs a cleaning company and develops an actress' dream. Rarely comes the opportunity to become an actress, and she feels skeptical as she faces a cold reality. Top actress Getaro reaches out to her secretly. However, Getaro was a murderer who murdered my youngest daughter, Rina, and overturned the murder charges on his wife, Marie. What is the fate of Tomomi left alone with Getaro?
Maniac Driver
A Japanese giallo about a murderous driver roaming the street in search of prey.
Hoteru shimai: Shiri Kansen aibu
As Morimi Shizuka leisurely sips a hot drink at the front door, a masked office worker on his way to work coughs visibly as he passes by. Shizuka, a practicing doctor, lives with her father Shigeru (Iijima), a research doctor working at a university hospital, and her younger sister Mai, but there is no word on the whereabouts of the sisters' mother. Shigeru has been feeling unwell since the night before, and as she takes a morning bath, Mai blares out loud music with no thought for her father, leaving Shizuka speechless. Mai unilaterally tells her sister that she is bringing her boyfriend home that day, and although Shizuka is concerned about Shigeru, she goes to work. Morimi Clinic is run by Shizuka and nurse Hase Shu (Salmon). However, Shizuka does not at all betray the impression of being laid-back, and in fact, her mood accelerates.
See You
Shoichi Arai (Kiichi Sonobe), a lonely man who works at a factory, had a secret that he couldn't tell. That is, he can only love girls in uniform. Shoichi, whose frustration for that eccentricity has exploded, impulsively abducts high school girl Ai Kozuka (Yaeko Kiyose)
Village on the Village
Left alone by his music group, Nakanishi lands in a peaceful but strange village. He laughs and drinks with it's residents until the alcohol seems to have a supernatural effect on him ...
Filmography
as Mayumi's Boyfriend
as Kenji
as Seiichi Hashimoto
as Kei Doi
as Hebikichi
as Kei
as Policeman