Birthday: 1878-05-16
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to ...
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The ambiguous relationship between a woman musician and her young student....
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Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year....
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A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's busines...
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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 narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime commit...
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A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. Th...
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This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was st...
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Directed by Eizo Tanaka. Only 8 minutes of film is known to have survived....
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Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirô Shimazu, originally released as a two-part movie on Decemb...
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Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes ...
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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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The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his co...
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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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Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to hav...
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A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a...
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Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a tr...
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Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married...
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A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life....
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A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the er...
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A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees....
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Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital,...
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An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as ...
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This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura s...
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Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Tak...
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Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the...
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Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at sin...
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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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Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the f...
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A dramatized chapter in the life of Shimizu Jirocho, a famous yakuza boss, gambler, and folk hero of...
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Japanese silent film from 1927, based on a popular serialized novel by Kan Kikuchi....
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The logger Yamato has been raising his daughter alone since his wife died in childbirth. The baron w...
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A feature-length work based on Kan Kikuchi’s newspaper novel, adapted for the screen by Kōgo Noda. W...
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Japanese silent film from 1930. The second chapter of "The Big City: Labor" (1929)....
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Japanese silent film from 1930. Directed by Heinosuke Gosho, the film marked a new stage in the arti...
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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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First chapter of Tasujiro Shimazu's ABC Lifeline, released two months before ABC Lifeline: Part 1 an...
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Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to ma...
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Japanese film from 1933, adapted from a story serialized in the entertainment magazine "Fuji."...
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Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu....
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