Osamu Takizawa
Osamu Takizawa (滝沢 修 Takizawa Osamu , 13 November 1906 – 22 June 2000 ) was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. Starting at the Tsukiji Little Theater, Takizawa participated in a number of theatrical troupes before forming Gekidan Mingei with Jūkichi Uno. His was praised for his performance in Death of a Salesman and also directed a version of The Diary of Anne Frank. Perhaps his most notable film role was in Fires on the Plain.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.576 |
| Birthday | 1906-11-14 |
| Place of Birth | Ushigome, Tokyo,Japan |
| Also Known As | Osamu Takizawa (I), 滝沢 修, |
1965
Kwaidan
7.705/364
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...
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Kwaidan
1959
Fires on the Plain
7.598/107
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Le...
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Fires on the Plain
1956
Called to the Stand
0/0
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide. T...
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Called to the Stand
1970
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
6.667/60
With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merch...
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
1958
Stolen Desire
6.6/12
A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.
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Stolen Desire
1961
Bitter End of a Sweet Night
5.8/15
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.
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Bitter End of a Sweet Night
1947
The Ball at the Anjo House
6.706/17
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the f...
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The Ball at the Anjo House
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
6.2/5
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of t...
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The Sands of Kurobe
1962
Love Under the Crucifix
6.9/7
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a...
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Love Under the Crucifix
1955
Christ in Bronze
0/0
Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
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Christ in Bronze
1948
The Grand Master
0/0
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of becomin...
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The Grand Master
1935
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
6.8/6
Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars....
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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1965
A Trap
7.2/13
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in K...
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A Trap
1962
The Inheritance
7.2/24
On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are...
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The Inheritance
1961
Buddha
0/0
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (C...
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Buddha
1966
The Great White Tower
6.462/13
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant...
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The Great White Tower
1978
August without Emperor
6/2
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-wa...
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August without Emperor
1971
Shadow of Deception
6.3/3
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 ow...
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Shadow of Deception
1948
Apostasy
5.8/4
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
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Apostasy
1949
Broken Drum
6.7/6
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in ord...
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Broken Drum
1957
Secret of Naruto
6.393/14
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the...
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Secret of Naruto
1955
A Hole of My Own Making
6/1
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she...
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A Hole of My Own Making
1950
Till We Meet Again
6.4/8
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
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Till We Meet Again
1956
How Sorrowful
0/0
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...
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How Sorrowful
1956
Family of Sorrow
0/0
Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.
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Family of Sorrow
1938
Composition Class
7/6
Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.
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Composition Class
1953
Before Dawn
0/0
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Before Dawn
1951
Story of a Beloved Wife
7/3
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa...
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Story of a Beloved Wife
1973
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
6/6
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through t...
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
1952
Children of Hiroshima
7/35
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing...
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Children of Hiroshima
1958
The Loyal 47 Ronin
6/9
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
5.7/7
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1957
The Temptress and the Monk
0/0
Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.
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The Temptress and the Monk
1951
The Tale of Genji
5.4/5
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his hea...
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The Tale of Genji
1963
The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
8/2
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new li...
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The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
1950
Street of Violence
6.5/2
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
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Street of Violence
1971
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
5.8/6
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
1959
Stop the Old Fox
5/1
Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the investigation of corruption in the administration of t...
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Stop the Old Fox
1948
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
0/0
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1959
Jirocho Fuji
6.8/4
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.
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Jirocho Fuji
1962
Drunkard's Paradise
0/0
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses...
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Drunkard's Paradise
1959
Etajima, the Naval Academy
0/0
The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase....
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Etajima, the Naval Academy
1954
The Black Current
0/0
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Aki...
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The Black Current
1970
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
6/6
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
6.7/11
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely d...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1958
Face in the Dark
0/0
Japanese suspense film.
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Face in the Dark
1952
Shi no machi wo nogarete
0/0
Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.
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Shi no machi wo nogarete
1966
No Greater Love
0/0
In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...
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No Greater Love
1946
The Brick Factory Girl
0/0
This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth...
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The Brick Factory Girl
1963
A Legend, or Was It?
6.364/11
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
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A Legend, or Was It?
1935
Drifting
0/0
Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
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Drifting
1960
Jungle Block
7/1
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a resu...
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Jungle Block
1980
An Ocean to Cross
0/0
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The fil...
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An Ocean to Cross
1966
The Heart of Hiroshima
0/0
One morning, Kazue is nearly knocked over by a motorbike in front of an instrument store, breaking all the records that she was carrying. The two conn...
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The Heart of Hiroshima
1965
Taking the Castle
0/0
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to stand...
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Taking the Castle
1953
Miniature
8/3
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope i...
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Miniature
1952
The Yamabiko School
0/0
A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.
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The Yamabiko School
1961
That Guy and I
10/1
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....
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That Guy and I
1964
Shutsugeki
0/0
An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. The photo w...
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Shutsugeki
1988
Sakura-tai Chiru
5.7/3
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for th...
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Sakura-tai Chiru
1958
Crimson Wings
0/0
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received fr...
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Crimson Wings
1957
On This Earth
0/0
1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura
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On This Earth
1964
Jinsei Gekijo
0/0
1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.
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Jinsei Gekijo
1959
Dream Young Man's Dream
0/0
An early contemporary yakuza action drama.
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Dream Young Man's Dream
1937
Mother's Melody
0/0
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Mother's Melody
1950
Resurrection
0/0
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Resurrection
1976
Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
0/0
A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers l...
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
1949
The Man Who Laughs Last
0/0
The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers g...
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The Man Who Laughs Last
1938
The Giant
6/1
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...
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The Giant
1950
The Bells of Nagasaki
0/0
The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
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The Bells of Nagasaki
1959
Across the Darkness
0/0
A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.
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Across the Darkness
1954
Dorodarake no seishun
0/0
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayash...
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Dorodarake no seishun
1938
Tojuro's Love
0/0
A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels th...
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Tojuro's Love
1952
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
0/0
A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.
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I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
1959
A Man Explodes
0/0
Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu, w...
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A Man Explodes
1962
Ai to shi no katami
0/0
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Ai to shi no katami
1954
疾風愛憎峠
0/0
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疾風愛憎峠
1954
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
0/0
Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie
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Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
1967
Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows
0/0
During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has alr...
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Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows
1962
Seinen no isu
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Seinen no isu
1954
Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi
0/0
Fukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and changed dramatically. He stopped gambling and womanizing...
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Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi
1962
Facing to the Clouds
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Facing to the Clouds
1962
A Torrent of Life
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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A Torrent of Life
1954
Hanran
0/0
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Hanran
1938
Subterranean Heat
0/0
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Subterranean Heat
1949
Konna onna ni dare ga shita
0/0
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Konna onna ni dare ga shita
1961
The Estuary
0/0
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The Estuary
1954
浅草の夜
0/0
A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...
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浅草の夜
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
6.9/10
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1951
限りなき情熱
0/0
Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry abou...
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限りなき情熱
1955
Six Assassins
0/0
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