Johnny Ohkura

Johnny Ohkura

1952-09-03
62 (2014-11-19)
Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Actor and musician. Founded the band CAROL with Eikichi Yazawa in 1971. After disbanding CAROL in 1975, he became a solo artist and expanded his acting career.

Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Actor and musician. Founded the band CAROL with Eikichi Yazawa in 1971. After disbanding CAROL in 1975, he became a solo artist and expanded his acting career.

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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence 1983 (7.3)

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
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Boiling Point 1990 (6.891)

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
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Distant Thunder 1981 (6.8)

A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.