Best movies of Chôichirô Kawarasaki

Actors : Rentarô Mikuni, Hideko Okiyama, Kazuo Kitamura, Chôichirô Kawarasaki,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.

Actors : Kôtarô Satomi, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Mikijirô Hira, Takayuki Akutagawa,
Directors : Eiichi Kudô,

A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but ...

Actors : Gin Maeda, Tetsuo Ishidate, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideki Hayashi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Riveting story of five kids who come to Tokyo for work in 1960. Fukasaku shows the shocking consequences for these idealistic youths whose dreams are soon torn apart in the chaos of class turmoil and youthful indiscretion.

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Shima Iwashita, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Masao Kusakari,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk.

Actors : Yoshiko Sakuma, Minoru Chiaki, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Michiyo Kogure,
Directors : Tomotaka Tasaka,

A forlorn love story between a young monk and his childhood sweet-heart set in post WWII Japan.

Actors : Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Toshie Kobayashi, Ruriko Asaoka, Chikako Natsumi,
Directors : Kirio Urayama,

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural ...

Actors : Sachiko Murase, Rentarô Mikuni, Orie Satô, Chôichirô Kawarasaki,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.