Birthday: 1909-09-08
Place of Birth: Hachinohe, Aomori 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 woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo ...
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A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and ...
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Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation fac...
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1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame....
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Kodakara Sodo (The Treasure That Is Children) is a 1935 black and white Japanese silent film with be...
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Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine...
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Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno t...
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May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, s...
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The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; liter...
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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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With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
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Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and ...
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A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity....
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Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman...
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A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to...
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Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl....
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A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letter...
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A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a docto...
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Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden...
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A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal...
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It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He con...
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When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the drive...
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A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target ...
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A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husba...
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A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers an...
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Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi...
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The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow ari...
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After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to ...
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After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
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In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Jap...
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A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Jap...
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Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
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On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's hi...
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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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The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The ...
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A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made po...
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Jie attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha and became a l...
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The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam c...
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After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out ...
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A love story about a former noblewoman who greedily enjoys love after breaking up with her unhappy m...
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The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following th...
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A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressu...
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Ayako Kurimura, a new B.G. at Nitto Electric, becomes the object of affection for both her brother's...
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Two young women start their first jobs at a construction firm, where buried family secrets and a com...
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A university graduate determined to become a fishmonger defies his mother's wishes, tangles with bar...
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