Kōichi Saitō
出生 : 1929-02-03, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
死亡 : 2009-11-28
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Kōichi Saitō (斎藤 耕一 Saitō Kōichi, 3 February 1929 – 28 November 2009) was a Japanese film director and photographer. Born in Tokyo, Saitō started studying at Rikkyo University but ended up graduating from the Tokyo College of Photography (currently Tokyo Polytechnic University). He was initially a movie stills photographer at Nikkatsu before launching his own production company, Saito Productions, and directing his first film, Tsubuyaki no Jō, "a low-budget, independent film with a visual flair that earned comparisons with Claude Lelouch and with Richard Lester’s Beatles films, including A Hard Day’s Night". Some of his first films were youth movies featuring Group Sounds music. He came to prominence in the early 1970s with a series of movies about young people escaping to or searching for their identity in the countryside. He won the best director award at the 1972 Mainichi Film Awards. His Tsugaru jongarabushi was selected the best film of 1973 in the Kinema Junpo poll of critics. Saitō continued directing into his seventies and also made some documentaries. He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun (4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette) in 2000.
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A couple flees Tokyo, their family and friends. The girlfriend is a member of a rock band. She is dating the man, but friends and family are against it compelling her to move away. They stay at an inn in an area in which they know no one. One inn employee finds out about their dilemma and introduces them to a local farmer who offers them work and a home.
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A couple flees Tokyo, their family and friends. The girlfriend is a member of a rock band. She is dating the man, but friends and family are against it compelling her to move away. They stay at an inn in an area in which they know no one. One inn employee finds out about their dilemma and introduces them to a local farmer who offers them work and a home.
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In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown and his children are sent to live with other relatives.
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Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.
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盗まれた石膏像の首をめぐって起こる連続殺人事件を解決する金田一耕助の活躍を描くミステリー・コメディ。横溝正史の原作『瞳の中の女』の映画化
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A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madness.
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A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madness.
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A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madness.
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Romance film
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A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.
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Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa
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Ken's older sister Yoko, who has raised Ken like a mother, decides to move to Brazil with an older man.
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Ken's older sister Yoko, who has raised Ken like a mother, decides to move to Brazil with an older man.
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昭和12年。刑務所で同じ釜の飯を食った錠吉と玄造がともに出所。錠吉は、兄貴分を殺した仇敵を捜し求めて、売春宿に身を落とした兄貴分の女房を訪ねるが、既に彼女は死亡。そこで出会った売春婦のサキエから、自分を助けてほしいと頼まれた錠吉は、折しもその売春宿に遊びに来ていた玄造と一致協力して、サキエを足抜けさせることに成功する。やがて3人は、ひょんなことから知った海底に沈む財宝探しに夢中になる。
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A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to a couple arriving from Tokyo - the woman returning to her home, the man an escapee from the yakuza. The man doesn't seem to mind when the woman sells her favours to tourists at the local bar, just as she seems to take his attentions to Yuki, a blind girl, with equanimity.
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A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to a couple arriving from Tokyo - the woman returning to her home, the man an escapee from the yakuza. The man doesn't seem to mind when the woman sells her favours to tourists at the local bar, just as she seems to take his attentions to Yuki, a blind girl, with equanimity.
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A man survives a double suicide attempt, while his girlfriend does not.
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「ママ、びっくりしないで、泣かないで、落着いてね。そう、わたしは旅に出たの。ただの家出じやないの、旅に出たのよ（つづく）」の書き出しで始まる。16歳の少女が、男出入りの多い貧しい絵かきの母と女ふたりの家庭や、学校生活が憂うつになり、家を飛び出したところから物語は始まる。舞台は四国。少女の実家も四国。海辺伝いに、四国遍路の旅に出た少女がママに宛てた手紙に託すかたちで、多感な青春の断面を四国の自然描写を織り込みながらみずみずしい筆致で描かれている。家出であり、旅でもあり、遍路でもあり、漂泊でもある、天衣無縫な自由きままな旅であり、常に母への手紙という形で描かれる。それは常に一方通行で、母からの復路はなく、すべてはモノローグである。
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The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
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Based on Shinichi Mori song
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Based on Shinichi Mori song
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Based on the song by Mari Henmi
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It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in a local town with a rich old man who owns a dry goods store. Minako travels to Tokyo on business every three months, during which time she continues to meet Sozo, who has married the daughter of his respected teacher.
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Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now Tadao returned from Canada and Gang member wonder if he will do revenge for her death…
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Based on Shinichi Mori song
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A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies to Paris when he learns she is studying music there. But, when he finally wins her after many difficulties, he somehow feels empty, because his spirit has always been aroused against barriers before him.
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A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies to Paris when he learns she is studying music there. But, when he finally wins her after many difficulties, he somehow feels empty, because his spirit has always been aroused against barriers before him.
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Youth drama
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Youth drama
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城南学園演劇部の大女優的存在の田代信子は、水谷たちのグループから、シンデレラのように仰がれていた。やがて、卒業公演を終えた信子と水谷たち五人は永遠の友情を誓って卒業していった。それから一年、信子はコマーシャル・タレントとして頭角をあらわし、見合いの話が絶えなかった。そんな時いつも妨害に現われたのは、水谷グループの面々だった…
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城南学園演劇部の大女優的存在の田代信子は、水谷たちのグループから、シンデレラのように仰がれていた。やがて、卒業公演を終えた信子と水谷たち五人は永遠の友情を誓って卒業していった。それから一年、信子はコマーシャル・タレントとして頭角をあらわし、見合いの話が絶えなかった。そんな時いつも妨害に現われたのは、水谷グループの面々だった…
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城南学園演劇部の大女優的存在の田代信子は、水谷たちのグループから、シンデレラのように仰がれていた。やがて、卒業公演を終えた信子と水谷たち五人は永遠の友情を誓って卒業していった。それから一年、信子はコマーシャル・タレントとして頭角をあらわし、見合いの話が絶えなかった。そんな時いつも妨害に現われたのは、水谷グループの面々だった…
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斎藤耕一監督による、人気グループ・サウンズ歌謡映画シリーズ第三弾。
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「亜麻色の髪の乙女」のヒット曲などで知られるグループサウンズ、ヴィレッジ・シンガーズを主演に迎えた青春映画。ボーナス休暇を利用して海へ出かけたヴィレッジ・シンガーズの面々が経験する出会いや淡く切ない恋などを瑞々しく描く。
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Village Singers film
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Village Singers film
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Melodrama about the life of an unfortunate composer of the Meiji era, Rentaro Taki, who became known only after his death.
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横浜の外国人客が多い上流ナイトクラブでは、今日もユカと呼ばれる18歳の女の子が人気を集めていた。さまざまな伝説を身のまわりに撒きちらす女、平気で男と寝て、教会にもかよう。彼女にとっては当り前の生活も、人からみれば異様にうつった。横浜のユカのアパートで、ユカがパパと呼んでいる船荷会社の社長は、初老の男だがユカにとってはパパ を幸福にしてあげたいという気持でいっぱいだ。ある日曜日、ユカがボーイフレンドの修と街を歩いていた時、ショウウィンドウをのぞいて素晴しい人形を、その娘に買ってやっている嬉しそうなパパをみた時から、ユカもそんな風にパパを喜ばせたいと思った。ユカの目的は男をよろこばすだけだったから...。
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A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing of an old school cap by a senior. It is a symbol of courage and bravery and is handed down to a new senior each year.
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山間の小駅。この駅の灯だけが、真暗闇に侘しく光っていた。ホームには、水害で不通になった列車が立往生。午前二時を指す時計の掛かった駅の待合室には、傲慢そうな重役夫妻、セールスマン、男女学生、オンリーさんの夏子、老夫婦、小粋な三十女と愛人、家出した田舎娘など足止めをくった乗客でごった返していた。この騒ぎから取り残されたように静かに佇む乳呑み児を抱いた時枝の側には、一本の手錠でつながれた刑事と殺人犯・森が立っていた。一同はバスで次の駅まで出ることになったが、いよいよ出発という時「銀行を襲撃して現金二千万円を奪った二人組のギャングが、この方面に立ち廻った形跡がある」という悪い知らせが入った。 動揺した乗客は次々とバスを降り、十四名を乗せたボロボロのバスが暗夜の中を出発した。ギャングと山崩れの恐怖に怯える夜が明けると、一同には明るさが戻ったが、時技と森だけは暗い表情を崩さなかった。行く手には、とうてい渡れそうもない朽ち果てた橋。しかしバリバリと音をたてながら、バスは危うくも橋を渡りきった。さらにバスが進むと、前方に青年が飛び出してきた。バスに乗り込んで来た二人連は、大きなボストンバックを提げていたー。
