Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Kawarasaki Choichiro was a Japanese actor born in Musashino Town, Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi High School and dropped out of Waseda University's Department of Literature. He is the eldest son of Kawarazaki Chojuro IV. His wife is Ito Eiko. His younger brothers are Kawarazaki Jiro and Kawarazaki Kenzo. At the age of 64, he died of acute heart failure.
Rhapsody in August
as NoboruThe story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed...
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Vengeance Is Mine
as Pawnshop OwnerA thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
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Profound Desires of the Gods
as Kametaro FutoriTokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori...
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Tokyo Bordello
as Zennosuke EchigoyaA ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the...
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13 Assassins
as Makino YoshioA sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even...
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The Strange Tale of Oyuki
as Take-sanA story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
as uncreditedAfter a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw...
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The Great Duel
as uncreditedA cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
as Hayashi KichijiroIn the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
as uncreditedThe remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to...
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Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
as uncreditedYuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an...
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Himiko
as MimakiThe myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern...
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Gonza the Spearman
as Jinbei IwakiThe tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which...
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The Mad Fox
as Sakuragi MiyaA court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope...
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Sharaku
as Santō KyōdenA crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential...
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Why Not?
as NakazawaThe film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in...
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
as uncreditedThree stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman...
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A House in the Quarter
as Seijun KunugidaWith her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a...
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Light of Africa
as Chief of policeTwo semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido...
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Red Paper Lantern
as uncreditedA young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their...
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The Phantom Goblin
as uncreditedAn injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and...
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Tokaido Fullhouse
as uncreditedWhen Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother...
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The Warrior from Kishu
as Hatsuse TomaThis is a story of a young heir to a powerful house, sent away to be raised by his nanny, so the...
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A Revengeful Raid
as uncreditedIn this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho,...
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
as uncreditedMichio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a...
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If You Were Young: Rage
as uncreditedIf You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on...
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
as uncreditedAdventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu.
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Let's Go, Grandma!
as uncreditedLet's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo...
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Fine Man
as uncreditedA young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he...
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
as Kichijiro HayashiIn the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of...
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Gassan
as KarasuAkira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and...
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Faraway Sunset
as uncreditedFaraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the...
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The Conspirator
as uncreditedYoung lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime,...
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Lord of Steel Heart
as KojiroA Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Samurai Matabei, a...
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Takeshi: Childhood Days
as Tatsuo Kazama (Uncle of Shinji)A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is...
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Serial Killer: Coldblooded
as uncreditedBased on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.
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Sasuke and His Comedians
as uncreditedOsaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan...
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A Carpenter and Children
as uncreditedA carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an...
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The Christian Revolt
as uncreditedIn the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against...
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Invitation of Lust
as uncreditedHirobe is a lonely man. After witnessing her girlfriend die with a terminal illness, he wanders...
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The Gate of Youth
as uncreditedMainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his...
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The Gentle Japanese
as ShakaA survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a...
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Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
as uncreditedA headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his...
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My Way
as Kobayakawa's fatherBased on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve...
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In Search of Mother
as IseyaPeriod piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a...
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River of Fireflies
as uncreditedDuring the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his...
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Follow the Girls
as TeruoComedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
as Chamberlain giving shelter to Ogami IttoA noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target...
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A Human Promise
as Yoshio, Ryôsaku's sonAn old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the...
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Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man
as uncreditedRichshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha,...
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Manon
as KuwashiroA story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are...
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Castle of Owls
as KumotaroMovie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon,...
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The Ninja Hunt
as Yajirô AmanoFour ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the...
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It's Easier Than Kissing
as uncreditedAfter the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father
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There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
as uncreditedBenio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her...
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Long Journey into Love
as uncreditedA beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving...
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The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
as GyutakuA story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely...
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The Great Duel
as uncreditedIn this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his...
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The Girl I Abandoned
as uncreditedTsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's...
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
as Kichijiro HayashiThe fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and...
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A Woman Called En
as uncreditedSet at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison,...
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Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-
as Katsutoshi WatanabeMomoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of...
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Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
as uncreditedWhile trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of...
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Dark Room
as Man (Interview with Nakata)A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his...
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Shiro and Marilyn
as Gentaro TamashiroBased on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the...
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Heaven Sent
as uncreditedSayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously...
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Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
as Hideo HayakawaIn the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo...
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Yagyu Chronicles 9: Assassin's Sword
as uncreditedThe Yagyu Family have been teaching the Shinkage style of fencing for generations. Now a new...
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Yojōhan seishun garasu-bari
as SaekiA film that portrays the youth and fragile love of a transportation worker in Tokyo.
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Sakura
as uncreditedThe story of a bus conductor who dedicates his life to the cherished Japanese symbol.
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Yume-Chiyo
as uncreditedYumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do...
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Golden Peacock Castle, Part 2
as uncreditedThe struggles of the Golden Peacock Clan continue as they seek to reclaim their home and prevent...
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Moonlight Serenade
as HeadmasterAfter the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his...
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Tattoo of Love
as uncreditedThe great Okawa Hashizo, in one of his most powerful roles risks his life and limb to help save...
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Panic in High School
as OgataA parable about the inefficiency and anachronism of the Japanese educational system, which...
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Double Clutch
as uncreditedHiromi Go plays a high school student who need's a role model in his life badly. He's raised by...
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War and Youth
as Kappei HayaseAn auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but...
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Clouds at Sunset
as uncreditedA Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start...
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My Phoenix
as Kisaku AnayamaRomance story about the first female manager of the Nihon University Phoenix
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Child of the Sun
as uncreditedA couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school...
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Golden Peacock Castle, Part 1
as uncreditedA group of pirates led by the evil Gondaiyu and his wizard, Genkuro, capture the Golden Peacock...
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Golden Peacock Castle, Part 4
as uncreditedThe righteous young men, who were separated by the all-out attack of sorcery, are saved by the...
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Golden Peacock Castle, Part 3
as uncreditedWhat will become of Sakon's lover, Shiragiku, who has been abducted to the Matsunaga Danjo...
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The Sharks
as uncreditedA film adaptation of Masatsugu Nobuhiko's novel of the same name, directed by Tasaka Tomotaka...
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Professional Killers
as uncreditedA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
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Shinjuku Shark
as uncreditedHard-boiled suspense drama series about a detective feared as the "Shinjuku Shark" who bravely...
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An Elegy of Tyrole
as Yamagata MotooIn the past, it was bustling with coal mines, but due to the closure of the mine one after...
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Tokyo Cinderella Story
as Tadashi MatsuiYukiko (Wakui Emi) has been living in Tokyo for three years. Inside her heart, she believes that...
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Tokyo Suburbia
as uncreditedTwo couples are confronted with the fact that their children have dropped out of high school and...
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Etorofu Harukanari
as uncreditedOn the eve of the outbreak of war between Japan and the U.S., U.S. Naval Intelligence sent a spy...
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