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.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Osamu Takizawa , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0572 |
| Birthday | 1906-11-13 |
| Place of Birth | Ushigome, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Osamu Takizawa (I), 滝沢 修, |
1965
Kwaidan
7.722/449
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...
Watch Now
Kwaidan
1954
Turbid Youth
9/1
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayash...
Watch Now
Turbid Youth
1959
Fires on the Plain
7.581/123
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...
Watch Now
Fires on the Plain
1970
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
6.766/79
Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding father an...
Watch Now
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
1958
Stolen Desire
6.583/13
A rambunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.
Watch Now
Stolen Desire
1962
Seinen no isu
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
Watch Now
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...
Watch Now
Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi
1962
Facing to the Clouds
0/0
A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Naka...
Watch Now
Facing to the Clouds
1961
Bitter End of a Sweet Night
6/16
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.
Watch Now
Bitter End of a Sweet Night
1947
The Ball at the Anjo House
6.947/19
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...
Watch Now
The Ball at the Anjo House
1962
A Torrent of Life
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
Watch Now
A Torrent of Life
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
7/7
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...
Watch Now
The Sands of Kurobe
1938
Tojuro's Love
7/1
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...
Watch Now
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.
Watch Now
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
1962
Love Under the Crucifix
7/13
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the...
Watch Now
Love Under the Crucifix
1954
Hanran
0/0
Watch Now
Hanran
1955
Christ in Bronze
9/1
Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan.
Watch Now
Christ in Bronze
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...
Watch Now
A Man Explodes
1938
Subterranean Heat
7/1
Watch Now
Subterranean Heat
1962
Ai to shi no katami
0/0
Watch Now
Ai to shi no katami
1954
疾風愛憎峠
0/0
Watch Now
疾風愛憎峠
1949
Utako's Story
0/0
Watch Now
Utako's Story
1961
The Estuary
0/0
Watch Now
The Estuary
1954
Asakusa at Night
7/1
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...
Watch Now
Asakusa at Night
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
6.571/14
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...
Watch Now
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...
Watch Now
限りなき情熱
1948
The Grand Master
9/1
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...
Watch Now
The Grand Master
1955
Six Assassins
9/1
Watch Now
Six Assassins
1954
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
0/0
Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie
Watch Now
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
1965
A Trap
7.1/14
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...
Watch Now
A Trap
1935
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
6.556/9
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....
Watch Now
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1967
Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows
8/1
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...
Watch Now
Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows
1961
Buddha
10/1
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...
Watch Now
Buddha
1962
The Inheritance
7.214/28
A dying businessman intends to will ¥200 million to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.
Watch Now
The Inheritance
1966
The Great White Tower
6.933/15
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant...
Watch Now
The Great White Tower
1978
August Without Emperor
7.25/4
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...
Watch Now
August Without Emperor
1971
Shadow of Deception
6.5/4
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...
Watch Now
Shadow of Deception
1948
Apostasy
6/6
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
Watch Now
Apostasy
1949
Broken Drum
6.714/7
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in ord...
Watch Now
Broken Drum
1957
Secret of Naruto
6.981/27
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...
Watch Now
Secret of Naruto
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...
Watch Now
How Sorrowful
1950
Till We Meet Again
6.7/10
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
Watch Now
Till We Meet Again
1955
A Hole of My Own Making
8/2
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is en...
Watch Now
A Hole of My Own Making
1956
Family of Sorrow
0/0
Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.
Watch Now
Family of Sorrow
1956
Called to the Stand
8/1
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide. T...
Watch Now
Called to the Stand
1953
Before Dawn
10/1
Watch Now
Before Dawn
1938
Composition Class
6.778/9
Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much p...
Watch Now
Composition Class
1963
When Women Lie
8/2
Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (K...
Watch Now
When Women Lie
1973
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
6.143/7
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...
Watch Now
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
1952
Children of Hiroshima
7.143/42
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...
Watch Now
Children of Hiroshima
1958
The Loyal 47 Ronin
6.182/11
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...
Watch Now
The Loyal 47 Ronin
1951
Story of a Beloved Wife
7/4
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...
Watch Now
Story of a Beloved Wife
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
5.875/8
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
Watch Now
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1957
The Temptress and the Monk
8/1
A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lovers into beasts.
Watch Now
The Temptress and the Monk
1951
The Tale of Genji
6/7
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...
Watch Now
The Tale of Genji
1963
The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
8.667/3
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...
Watch Now
The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
1950
Town 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.
Watch Now
Town of Violence
1971
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
6.429/7
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...
Watch Now
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
1959
Stop the Old Fox
6.5/2
Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the investigation of corruption in the administration of t...
Watch Now
Stop the Old Fox
1959
Jirocho Fuji
7.4/5
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.
Watch Now
Jirocho Fuji
1948
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
9/1
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
Watch Now
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
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....
Watch Now
Etajima, the Naval Academy
1954
The Black Current
10/1
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...
Watch Now
The Black Current
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...
Watch Now
Drunkard's Paradise
1970
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
6.75/8
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria...
Watch Now
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
6.6/15
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...
Watch Now
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1952
Shi no machi wo nogarete
8/1
Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.
Watch Now
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...
Watch Now
No Greater Love
1958
Face in the Dark
0/0
Japanese suspense film.
Watch Now
Face in the Dark
1946
The Brick Factory Girl
8/1
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...
Watch Now
The Brick Factory Girl
1963
A Legend or Was It?
6.929/14
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.
Watch Now
A Legend or Was It?
1935
Drifting
0/0
Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
Watch Now
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...
Watch Now
Jungle Block
1980
An Ocean to Cross
9/1
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...
Watch Now
An Ocean to Cross
1965
Taking the Castle
9/1
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...
Watch Now
Taking the Castle
1966
The Heart of Hiroshima
9/1
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...
Watch Now
The Heart of Hiroshima
1953
Miniature
7.75/4
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...
Watch Now
Miniature
1961
That Guy and I
8.5/2
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....
Watch Now
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...
Watch Now
Shutsugeki
1952
The Yamabiko School
0/0
A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.
Watch Now
The Yamabiko School
1988
Sakura-tai Chiru
6.75/4
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...
Watch Now
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...
Watch Now
Crimson Wings
1957
On This Earth
7/1
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Un...
Watch Now
On This Earth
1964
Jinsei Gekijo
7/1
1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.
Watch Now
Jinsei Gekijo
1959
Dream Young Man's Dream
0/0
An early contemporary yakuza action drama.
Watch Now
Dream Young Man's Dream
1937
Mother's Melody
0/0
Watch Now
Mother's Melody
1976
The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh
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...
Watch Now
The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh
1950
Resurrection
9/1
Watch Now
Resurrection
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...
Watch Now
The Man Who Laughs Last
1938
The Giant
7.5/2
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...
Watch Now
The Giant
1950
The Bells of Nagasaki
7/1
The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Watch Now
The Bells of Nagasaki
1959
Across the Darkness
9/1
A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.
Watch Now
Across the Darkness
1955
Ghost Story of Youth
10/1
A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist and chi...
Watch Now
Ghost Story of Youth
1955
The Samurai of Edo
6/1
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restora...
Watch Now
The Samurai of Edo
1935
Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu
0/0
Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells him that she's pregnant, he begins to worry. His com...
Watch Now
Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu
1971
The Earth is Born Again
0/0
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work deals with Kashima Rinkai industrial zone developm...
Watch Now
The Earth is Born Again
1964
Gazing at Love and Death
7/3
A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital...
Watch Now
Gazing at Love and Death
1963
Foggy Night Blues
0/0
Watch Now
Foggy Night Blues
1938
Chorus of the Century--Patriotic March
0/0
A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early days as a clarinetist in the Imperial Japanese Navy...
Watch Now
Chorus of the Century--Patriotic March
1960
The Day of Youth
8/1
At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away fro...
Watch Now
The Day of Youth
1948
The Lucky Chair
7/1
Watch Now
The Lucky Chair
1933
Youth Across the River
8/1
1933 film directed for PCL by Sotoji Kimura
Watch Now