Hiromi Gô

  • Shigeyuki Yamane – Daburu kuracchi AKA Double Clutch (1978)

    1971-1980DramaJapanShigeyuki Yamane

    Quote:
    Hiromi Go plays a high school student who needs a role model in his life badly. He’s raised by his older sister played by Keiko Matsuzaka who is a hostess at a night club. She meets a man who becomes her boyfriend. He races in a off-road car rally professionally. The same man becomes Go’s role model and teaches him sophisticated car driving techniques. One of the techniques taught is ‘double clutch’ ( Thus the movie’s title Double Kuracchi ) to make gear transition smoothly between shifts. Due to an unfortunate accident, Matsuzaka’s character dies and Go is left to fend for his life. Hiromi Go was a big pop idol in Japan when this movie was created. Both Go and Matsuzaka still enjoys high celebrity status in Japan.Read More »

  • Shigeyuki Yamane – Totsuzen arashi no youni AKA Suddenly, Like a Storm (1977)

    1971-1980DramaJapanRomanceShigeyuki Yamane

    Quote:
    21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver’s license and a car belonging to the junkyard. But unfortunately, things go wrong and after a collision with another car, the seriously injured Hideo is taken to the hospital. Here he meets the nurse Yuki Kobayashi. Yuki is the opposite of Hideo. During the day she works as a nurse and in the evening she studies hard. However, Hideo’s behavior leaves an unforgettable impression on Yuki and the two soon develop an intimate friendship …Read More »

  • Shigeyuki Yamane – Wani to omu to ottosei AKA Crocodile, Parrot and Fur Seal (1977)

    1971-1980DramaJapanRomanceShigeyuki Yamane

    Quote:
    Go and Merry were members of a circus that took care of Trapeze Ladder Mochi and Ossei. The troupe that came to Hawaii for a tour went bankrupt. The only thing they received in exchange for their retirement allowance was a birdcage containing Ohm. However, the two find a loan deed with 12 million yen written on it in the birdcage. The two return to Japan and start working part-time on that day to earn money for their travel expenses, with the intention of collecting the loan after completing the deed. One day, Go meets Nanako, who seems to be a traveler, and as they go on a number of dates, he becomes attracted to her. Read More »

  • Masahiro Shinoda – Yari no gonza aka Gonza the Spearman (1986)

    1981-1990AsianDramaJapanMasahiro Shinoda

    A lancer falls into disgrace when his social ambitions lead him to become engaged to two different women.

    Quote:
    LEAD: Don’t be put off by the title. ”Gonza the Spearman” is not an Eastern western. Masahiro Shinoda’s stately work, which opens the Public Theater’s Autumn in Japan series today, has few duels and only a gout or two of blood. Instead, it is filled with historical imagination, social comment and restrained passion, along with scene after elegantly composed scene of a culture that seems to have been paralyzed in a spare beauty.Read More »

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