Movies: Akiko Shikata

  • 1982
    Farewell to the Land

    Farewell to the Land (1982)

    Farewell to the Land

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    Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother wh...

    Farewell to the Land
  • 1979
    Nomugi Pass

    Nomugi Pass (1979)

    Nomugi Pass

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    The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without res...

    Nomugi Pass
  • 1984
    The Tragedy of “W”

    The Tragedy of “W” (1984)

    The Tragedy of “W”

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    A young girl is striving for stardom. In order to get a lead role in a new production, she agrees to stand-in for a famous star whose rich patron died in her arms one night. The real-life drama gradually comes to mirror the story of the play being pe...

    The Tragedy of “W”
  • 1978
    Third Base

    Third Base (1978)

    Third Base

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    Third and Shinbunbu embark on a plan to make money by Third becoming a pimp and Shinbunbu a prostitute....

    Third Base
  • 1978
    Rape and Death of a Housewife

    Rape and Death of a Housewife (1978)

    Rape and Death of a Housewife

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    Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it ...

    Rape and Death of a Housewife
  • 1982
    Eternal Monument

    Eternal Monument (1982)

    Eternal Monument

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    A remake of the 1953 film of the same name....

    Eternal Monument