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Shirō Moritani is a Director and Assistant Director Japonais born on 28 september 1931
Shirō Moritani (森谷司郎, Moritani Shirō) est un scénariste et réalisateur japonais, né le 28 septembre 1931 à Tokyo et mort le 2 décembre 1984.
Il a réalisé plus de 20 films et écrit une dizaine de scénarios entre 1958 et 1985
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Shirō Moritani
Biography
Shirō Moritani fait ses études à l'Université Waseda. Il débute comme assistant réalisateur en 1961 sur Le Garde du corps (Yojimbo) d'Akira Kurosawa. Son film le plus connu est Mont Hakkoda pour lequel il obtint le prix Mainichi en 1978.Il a réalisé plus de 20 films et écrit une dizaine de scénarios entre 1958 et 1985
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Filmography of Shirō Moritani (6 films)
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Mount Hakkoda (1977)
, 2h49Directed by Shirō Moritani
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Ken Takakura, Kin'ya Kitaōji, Rentarō Mikuni, Hideji Ōtaki, Tetsurō Tanba, Shōgo Shimada
Rating67%
En 1902, au Japon, une compagnie de soldats japonais, commandée par le colonel Nakabayashi, entreprend une traversée des Monts Hakkoda. Malgré l'apparition d'une importante tempête de neige, les officiers décident de continuer le voyage. La quasi-totalité des hommes périront de froid ou d'épuisement.
Submersion of Japan (1973)
, 2h23Directed by Shirō Moritani
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Films based on science fiction novels, Disaster films
Actors Keiju Kobayashi, Ayumi Ishida, Hiroshi Fujioka, Tetsurō Tanba, Lorne Greene, Shōgo Shimada
Rating55%
Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes shake Japan. Firestorms burn beautiful Japanese cities to the ground. A weather survey group discovers that the Japanese Archipelago is moving towards the Japanese Trench, which if left to continue on its collision course, would bring the whole island of Japan under the sea.
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Red Beard (1965)
, 3h5Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films
Actors Toshiro Mifune, Kinuyo Tanaka, Takashi Shimura, Yūzō Kayama, Kyōko Kagawa, Chishū Ryū
Roles Assistant Director
Rating82%
The film takes place in Koishikawa, a district of Edo (the former name of the city of Tokyo), in the 19th century. Young Dr. Noboru Yasumoto (Yūzō Kayama) is the film's protagonist. Trained in a Dutch medical school in Nagasaki, the arrogant Yasumoto aspires to the status of personal physician of the Shogunate, a position currently held by a close relative; his father is already a well-established, highly competent physician. Yasumoto believes that he should progress through the safe, and well-protected, army structure of medical education. However, for Yasumoto's post-graduate medical training, he has been assigned to a rural clinic under the guidance of Akahige ("Red Beard"), Dr. Kyojō Niide (played by Toshiro Mifune). Dr. Niide may seem like a tyrannical task master, but in reality he is a compassionate clinic director. Initially, Yasumoto is livid at his posting, believing that he has little to gain from working under Akahige. Dr. Yasumoto feels that Dr. Niide is only interested in his medical notes and soon rebels against the clinic director. He refuses to wear his uniform, disdains the food and spartan environment, and enters the forbidden garden where he meets "The Mantis" (Kyōko Kagawa), a mysterious patient that only Dr. Niide can treat.
High and Low (1963)
, 2h23Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura
Roles Assistant Director
Rating83%
A wealthy executive named Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) is in a struggle to gain control of a company called National Shoes. One faction wants the company to make cheap, low quality shoes for the impulse market as opposed to the sturdy but unfashionable shoes currently being produced. Gondo believes that the long-term future of the company will be best served by well made shoes with modern styling, though this plan is unpopular because it means lower profits in the short term. He has secretly set up a leveraged buyout to gain control of the company, mortgaging all he has.
Yojimbo (1961)
, 1h50Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Daisuke Katō
Roles Assistant Director
Rating81%
It is 1860, and the era of the Tokugawa shogunate is coming to a close. A rōnin, or masterless samurai, wanders into a small town divided by a gang war between two gangsters, Seibei and Ushitora. Ushitora used to be Seibei's right-hand man, until Seibei decided that his son Yoichiro would succeed him. Tazaemon, the silk merchant and mayor, backs Seibei, while Tokuemon the sake brewer is allied with Ushitora. Gonji, the owner of an inn, advises the stranger to leave while he can, but after sizing up the situation, the rōnin tells Gonji that the town would be better off with both sides dead, and that he intends to stay.
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
, 2h31Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about families, Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films about royalty
Actors Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyōko Kagawa, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Chishū Ryū
Roles Assistant Director
Rating79%
The film begins with a group of news reporters watching, and gossiping, at an elaborate wedding reception for Yoshiko Iwabuchi (Kyoko Kagawa), the daughter of Vice President Iwabuchi (Masayuki Mori, the villain character) of the Unexploited Land Development Corporation, a construction company, and Koichi Nishi, the president's secretary (a bespectacled Toshiro Mifune). The police interrupt the wedding when corporate assistant officer Wada, who is the wedding reception's master of ceremony, is arrested on charges of bribery in a kickback scheme. The reporters comment this incident is similar to an earlier scandal involving Iwabuchi, administrative officer Moriyama, and contract officer Shirai. That earlier case was hushed up after the apparent suicide of Assistant Chief Furuya, by jumping off the corporate office building, creating a dead end in the investigation before any of the company's higher-ups could be implicated.