Birthday: 1916-12-02
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (T...
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A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunite...
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Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the yea...
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Toshie, a young, conservative secretary-typist has fallen in love with Shozo Narita, a young man she...
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Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. How...
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Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe ...
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A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlik...
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Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither...
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A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, de...
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A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devo...
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Created by Shochiku’s cultural film department on behalf of the Ministry of Education, this film tel...
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An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geish...
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The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star....
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Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich,...
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A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddau...
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Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film i...
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Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politi...
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A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a vo...
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When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates o...
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A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victim...
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A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware tha...
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Comedy by Kiyohiko Ushihara. Once a full-length feature film, now only 14 minutes remain....
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A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the f...
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The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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Shigeko and Midori, star swimmers at the renowned Kirishima Girls’ School, are training relentlessly...
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