Highest-ranked title
Nijiko Kiyokawa has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1990s.
Recurring themes
The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide to band together and fight back. The Raccoons practice and perfect the ancient art of transformation until they are even able to appear as humans in hilarious circumstances.
Dir. Isao Takahata · With Makoto Nonomura, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Shigeru Izumiya
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
Dir. Shōhei Imamura · With Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Mitsuko Baisho
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
Dir. Akira Kurosawa · With Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyōko Kagawa
