Movies: Akiko Shikata
- 1982
Farewell to the Land (1982)
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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...
- 1979
Nomugi Pass (1979)
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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...
- 1984
The Tragedy of “W” (1984)
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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...
- 1978
Third Base (1978)
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Third and Shinbunbu embark on a plan to make money by Third becoming a pimp and Shinbunbu a prostitute....
- 1978
Rape and Death of a Housewife (1978)
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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 ...
- 1982
Eternal Monument (1982)
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A remake of the 1953 film of the same name....