Hideo Gosha
Nacimiento : 1929-02-26, Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
Muerte : 1992-08-30
Historia
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Hideo Gosha (February 26, 1929—August 30, 1992) was a Japanese film director.
Among his most famous films are Goyokin and Hitokiri, released in 1969, and The Wolves, released in 1971. His most famous film in the West is Sword of the Beast, released by Criterion.
Gosha's films are some of the darkest films from the samurai genre.
He won the 1984 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for The Geisha.
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The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.
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Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
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Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
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Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Paradise. The hookers live in a bombed-out building, but they accept the precarious situation with typical resolve.
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A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of the brothel has hopes to make her a great new addition which will attract the richest of customers. But after several months of training, she tries to flee Yoshiwara when the time has come for her to take her first customer...
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While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by blood ties but married to enemy yakuzas, will ultimately have to decide whose side they’re on.
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Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high ranking officials. During their investigation on some illegal business, one of them, called “Yazuke the Viper”, finds his abandoned daughter, Ocho, who has now become a mistress of Denzo, a smuggler. After Yazuke’s death, Ocho is also recruited as a “shadows executioner”, with the task of completing her father’s mission.
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When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous crimes--or the detectives hot on his trail.
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Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.
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Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory.
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Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles - between family members, men and women, and with the Yakuza. Momokawa was sold to Yokiro at age 12, and despite being the top geisha, her many complicated relationships provide unending challenges throughout her glamorous but turbulent life.
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A re-make of the classic story made for television in 1982.
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Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance.
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Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his boss's enemies almost overwhelming.
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Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his boss's enemies almost overwhelming.
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Un ex samurai abandona su épico modo de vida para convertirse en líder de una pandilla de ladrones.
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With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.
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With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.
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After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it be before the bloodshed begins anew? Set in 1926 Japan, this serpentine crime thriller from director Hideo Gosha also stars Toshio Kurosawa and Isao Natsuyagi as Iwahashi's closest ally.
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After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it be before the bloodshed begins anew? Set in 1926 Japan, this serpentine crime thriller from director Hideo Gosha also stars Toshio Kurosawa and Isao Natsuyagi as Iwahashi's closest ally.
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Un ronin busca desesperadamente una salida a los problemas financieros; se alía con el clan Tosa bajo el despiadado líder Takechi, quien rápidamente se aprovecha.
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Los barcos del Shogun pasan cargados de oro por la costa de Sabai. Tres años atrás, treinta pescadores con sus mujeres y familias desaparecieron en ese mismo lugar después de haber encontrado el oro de un barco hundido. Nunca se supo que pasó con ellos, así que se solía decir que fueron “llevados por los dioses”. Magobei es un samurai que sabe muy bien lo que sucedió aquel día, por lo que los responsables tratarán de deshacerse de él.
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Los barcos del Shogun pasan cargados de oro por la costa de Sabai. Tres años atrás, treinta pescadores con sus mujeres y familias desaparecieron en ese mismo lugar después de haber encontrado el oro de un barco hundido. Nunca se supo que pasó con ellos, así que se solía decir que fueron “llevados por los dioses”. Magobei es un samurai que sabe muy bien lo que sucedió aquel día, por lo que los responsables tratarán de deshacerse de él.
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Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dead father. There are crooked gold miners, a beautiful girl who is unfortunately a complete lunatic and a dojo master who is obsessed with killing Kiba just to prove that his school's sword style is the best.
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This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send against him another samurai, named Sana, who is without scruples. The fight between them will become personal, for the honor and love of the blind woman.
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Remake de un clásico film homónimo, dirigido en 1935 por Sadao Yamanaka.
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Remake de un clásico film homónimo, dirigido en 1935 por Sadao Yamanaka.
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Antes de salir de prisión, Oida, incómodo, llega a un acuerdo con su compañero de celda: a cambio de la mitad de 30.000.000 de yenes, debe asesinar a tres extraños que le dieron en una lista. Sin embargo, al conocer a su primera víctima potencial, Oida tiene dudas. Sin embargo, incluso cuando intenta retroceder, el recuento de cadáveres comienza a aumentar. Oida ahora debe tratar de alertar a las personas en su lista de su peligro inminente y descubrir por qué están siendo atacados en primer lugar.
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Antes de salir de prisión, Oida, incómodo, llega a un acuerdo con su compañero de celda: a cambio de la mitad de 30.000.000 de yenes, debe asesinar a tres extraños que le dieron en una lista. Sin embargo, al conocer a su primera víctima potencial, Oida tiene dudas. Sin embargo, incluso cuando intenta retroceder, el recuento de cadáveres comienza a aumentar. Oida ahora debe tratar de alertar a las personas en su lista de su peligro inminente y descubrir por qué están siendo atacados en primer lugar.
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Sword of the Beast, del legendario cineasta de esgrima Hideo Gosha, relata la huida del espadachín de bajo nivel Gennosuke, que mata a uno de sus ministros como parte de un plan de reforma. Sus antiguos camaradas luego se vuelven contra él, y esta traición sacude tanto su sentido del honor que decide vivir en la naturaleza, como un animal. Allí se une a un grupo variopinto que extrae ilegalmente el oro del shogun y, con la ayuda de otro espadachín, tiene la oportunidad no solo de sobrevivir, sino también de recuperar su nombre y honor.
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Sword of the Beast, del legendario cineasta de esgrima Hideo Gosha, relata la huida del espadachín de bajo nivel Gennosuke, que mata a uno de sus ministros como parte de un plan de reforma. Sus antiguos camaradas luego se vuelven contra él, y esta traición sacude tanto su sentido del honor que decide vivir en la naturaleza, como un animal. Allí se une a un grupo variopinto que extrae ilegalmente el oro del shogun y, con la ayuda de otro espadachín, tiene la oportunidad no solo de sobrevivir, sino también de recuperar su nombre y honor.
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Una banda de campesinos secuestra a la hija del magistrado de la aldea, con la esperanza de poder chantajearlo. Se encierran en un molino reclamando mejores condiciones para la vida de los campesinos y obtener una reducción de impuestos. Sakon Shiba, un samurai vagabundo, se gana su confianza y los ayuda en su misión. Pronto se alían con él Sakura y Kikyo, dos otros samurais. Empieza una lucha encarnizada en la que tendrán que hacer frente a todos los enviados del magistrado.
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Una banda de campesinos secuestra a la hija del magistrado de la aldea, con la esperanza de poder chantajearlo. Se encierran en un molino reclamando mejores condiciones para la vida de los campesinos y obtener una reducción de impuestos. Sakon Shiba, un samurai vagabundo, se gana su confianza y los ayuda en su misión. Pronto se alían con él Sakura y Kikyo, dos otros samurais. Empieza una lucha encarnizada en la que tendrán que hacer frente a todos los enviados del magistrado.
