also known as Naked Ambition is a 1970
Japan
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jidaigeki
is a genre of film, television, video game, and theatre in Japan. Literally meaning "period dramas", they are most often set during the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—''Portrait of Hel ...
noir film
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Kazuo Ikehiro
is a Japanese film director. He is known for directing Zatoichi series and the highly acclaimed Malay film Onna Gokuakuchō.
In 1950, he joined the Daiei Film and started working as an assistant director under Kenji Mizoguchi etc. In 1960, h ...
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It is based on
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature. The tone and subject matter of his work ranges from shocking depictions of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions to subtle por ...
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novel
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''Kyōfu Jidai''.
All the characters in the film are villains.
Kazuo Ikehiro said the film is his favorite film along with ''Hitori Okami'' among the films he directed.
Plot
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Wicked woman Ogin is a mistress of Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her.
Cast
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Michiyo Yasuda
was an animator and colour designer who worked for Toei Animation, A Production, Nippon Animation, Topcraft, and Studio Ghibli. Her designs were used by directors such as Isao Takahata, Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru Oshii. During a career spanning f ...
as Ogin no Kata
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Masakazu Tamura
was a Japanese film and theatre actor.
Profile
Masakazu Tamura was born 1 August 1943 in Kyoto, Japan to Japanese actor Tsumasaburō Bandō. Tsumasaburō Bandō died when Tamura was only nine years old. His brothers Takahiro and Ryō are also ...
as Isogai Iori
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Shin Kishida
Shin Kishida (17 October 1939 – 28 December 1982) was a Japanese television, film, and stage actor.
Biography
Shin Kishida was born at Kawakita General Hospital in Asagaya, Suginami, Tokyo. His uncle was playwright Kunio Kishida, and actres ...
as Tayu
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Kei Satō
was a Japanese character actor and narrator. He is known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima, and for several films with Kaneto Shindo, such as '' Onibaba'' and ''Kuroneko''. He won the best actor award from ''Kinema Junpo ...
as Shunto (
Daimyo
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Akiko Koyama
is a Japanese actress. She made her screen debut in 1955 and appeared in nearly 90 films. In 1960 Akiko Koyama married film director Nagisa Oshima, and appeared in some of his films.
Selected filmography
* ''Night and Fog in Japan'' (1960)
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as Umeno
* Kogan Ashiya as Chinsai (Monk)
* Natsuko Oka as Oyui
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Takeshi Date as Ujiei Samon
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Rinichi Yamamoto
was a Japanese actor from Hokkaido.
In 1953, he signed to the Toei Company and made his film debut in ''Gakusei Goninotoko''. He is most famous for playing villains and appeared more than 200 films. He also had many guest appearances as a villai ...
as Akaza Matajūrō
* Yuzō Hayakawa as Suganuma Hachirōta
* Hōshei Komatsu as Hosoi Gentaku
* Kimiko Tachibana as Wet Nurse
Production
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Yoshinobu Nishioka
was a Japanese jidaigeki production designer, art director, producer, and set decorater from Asuka, Nara Prefecture who won three Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction.
Nishioka joined Daiei Kyoto film in 1948. H ...
- Art director
References
External links
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Onna Gokuakuchō at Kadokawa/Daiei
Jidaigeki films
Samurai films
Daiei Film films
1970s Japanese films
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