Chieko Murata
Birthday: 1915-02-28
Place of Birth: Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Actress. Born 1915, died November 1995.
Movies
Aijô ni tsuite
Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, b...
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A Geisha on Horseback
Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love...
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The Sun of Love and Tears
The golden duo of Yukio Hashi and Chieko Baisho. A film rich in a variety of songs, dances and falli...
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Tokyo Crime Map
An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark...
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Earth
Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to p...
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A Hen in the Wind
Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son b...
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Devil's Flute
Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent b...
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Triangle Moods
Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in ...
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Black Sea of Trees
Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car acciden...
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The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall
When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and...
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Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane
Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daught...
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The Old Temple Well
Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost....
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Lightning
The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunction...
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A Samurai's Love
A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki....
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A Flower Blooms
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her....
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The Whale God
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it....
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The Makioka Sisters
Based on the famous novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is a story of the four sisters of the ancient ...
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The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by...
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Beauty the Enemy
In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracte...
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High School Third Graders
In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie ...
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Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree
Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the...
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers th...
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Warm Current
The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose betwee...
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The Cruel Sea
It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-base...
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The Ball at the Anjo House
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion ...
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Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Birdman with 3 Eyes
Suzunosuke faces perhaps his wildest foes. This evil gang is lead by a one-eyed birdman and other de...
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Black Snow
Black Snow tells the tale of a disturbed young man who, after spying on his mother with a black serv...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Mi...
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High School Juniors (Part II)
A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, re...
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob...
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A Geisha's Diary
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she stru...
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Clothes of Deception
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist boar...
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Haha machi gusa
Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day ...
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Chushingura
The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and ...
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The Big Wave
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically thre...
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A Woman's Testament
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a so...
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The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men at...
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A Design for Dying
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are R...
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The Snowy Heron
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. ...
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The Naked Town
A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao...
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Down Town
A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a k...
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A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa....
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Image of a Mother
The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries...
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance...
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Princess Yang Kwei-fei
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants t...
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The Judo Champ
When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected ...
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Rira no hana wasureji
In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with inves...
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Young Trees
A bright and cheerful story about a young girl who comes to Tokyo from the countryside, relying on h...
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Tokyo Eyes
A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope,...
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Bakeneko Goyōda
A comic thriller directed by Tokuzo Tanaka, a first-time newcomer, based on a screenplay by Toshio T...
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Nocturne of a Woman
A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catc...
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A Town with a Mountain and River
In a small Tohoku town, family tensions rise when a sick mother’s care leads to conflict over a mist...
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