Masumi Harukawa
Birthday: 1935-11-16
Place of Birth: Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
Biography: Born Machie Takigawa, she was active as a dancer at the Asakusa Rock Theater under the stage name Mary Rose in the early 1950s. Due to her appearance, she was affectionately nicknamed Daruma-chan and Jumbo-chan. Soon after moving to the Nichigeki Music Hall, she was scouted by the film industry and made her acting debut in "Gurama-to no yuwaku/The Temptation of Grama Island." Memorable in Japan for her regular role in eight of the ten Toei film series " Trucker Rascals," playing the wife of the series co-star Aikawa Kinya, among appearances in other popular cinematic serials such as Zatoichi and Tora-san. International audiences would be more familiar with her work with avant-garde directors Shōhei Imamura & Shūji Terayama.
Movies
Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusiv...
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Hachiko
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even...
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Pineapple Butai
The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950...
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The Insect Woman
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...
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Intentions of Murder
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a h...
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Zatoichi's Cane Sword
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Z...
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Zatoichi in Desperation
After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s...
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Crocodile, Parrot and Fur Seal
A comedy farce depicting the noise that occurs when two unemployed circus participants discover a de...
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Pastoral: To Die in the Country
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescenc...
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The Human Bullet
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedicati...
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Silk Hat Boss
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there'...
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Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-
Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers...
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Code of Ruffians
Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it w...
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Sodachi zakari
Japanese movie released on September 30 , 1967 . Produced and distributed by Toho . Color , Toho sco...
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House of Terrors
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous mast...
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Samurai Banners
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters th...
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Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesa...
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Carlos
V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza....
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Shogun's Ninja
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi...
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Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habi...
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The Gate of Youth
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens...
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Truck Rascals: No One Can Stop Me
The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and hi...
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Boxer
In the midst of a match, a successful boxer - Hayato, has had enough of the sport. He lets himself g...
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Bokyo
In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauch...
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The Wild Trucker
The comical adventures of two long-distance truck drivers, Momojiro and Kinzo, continue. Momojiro an...
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Curse of the Blood
A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his e...
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Silk Hat Boss
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there'...
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dre...
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Play it, Boogie-Woogie
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high...
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The Glamorous Ghost
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. ...
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Tokyo Pop
A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you ...
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The Threat
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an adv...
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Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own....
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Run Truck Rascal, Run!
Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet mu...
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Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Mom...
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I Am A Man of Honor
The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel ar...
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Truckster of Guts
The fifth movie of the “Truck Yaro” series, which is comical road movies of two long-distance trucke...
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Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro
Hoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and Jonat...
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A 5,000 Kilometer Run under The Scorching Sun
Ninth movie in the Torakku Yarō series. Momojiro travels to Nagano to take Jonathan's place driving ...
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Our Marriage
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere....
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Golden Ninja
Just after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of the de...
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Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as ...
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Sex Peddlers
A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She ...
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Bloody Shuriken
Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love...
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The Black Cat
Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is....
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Shiro and Marilyn
Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have thei...
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Where Spring Comes Late
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a min...
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Girls of the Night
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Jap...
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The Abalone Gals
South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, ...
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches....
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The Cola Game
Explicit drama about a young woman who becomes involved with a group of college students who play "s...
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Hole in the Pants
A boy transfers into a new high school in the big city. He gets bullied, but meets a pretty girl. He...
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The Spying Sorceress
Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treas...
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Women Can't Be Beaten
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his ...
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Tora-san's Lullaby
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and l...
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Michi
A married long-distance truck driver falls for a significantly younger waitress at a roadside diner....
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My Voiceless Friends
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visi...
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Yanagase Blues
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase....
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Temptation on Glamour Island
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all ...
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The Castle of Sand
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To...
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog s...
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Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color....
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Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
Visualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist who di...
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Kigeki-otoko no ude dameshi
In front of Sagami Detention Center. Shosuke, the owner of a strip joint called "Shunpu Music," welc...
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Bridal Cruise
Daisuke and Shinichi are companions who frequent girlie shows and parties until they find out they a...
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Chained Bitch
Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series...
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Pink Lady's Motion Picture
The Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady are circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "mons...
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The Killing Game
A middle-aged office worker, Masao Okada (Eiji Okada), discovers that his worsening illness is termi...
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Aces Wild
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitima...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Pier
The 24th and final entry in the Ekimae series, set at Takamatsu Station in Kagawa Prefecture, former...
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Ambassador Ramen
Frankie Sakai plays a Chino-Japanese man who after trudging along in odd jobs discovers his true tal...
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I Love You So Much
The Sagami family has been running an Edo-style woodworking shop in downtown Tokyo for generations. ...
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Yellow Cherries
The film is based on the 1959 hit song of the same name by the Three Cats....
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Abarenbo Shogun II – New Year’s Special
When the seventh shogun, Ietsugu died, shogunate officials chose Yoshimune, Lord of Kishu, to succee...
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I Am a Cat
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of f...
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Crazy Big Discovery
When the yakuza murder a bar hostess who, through a computer error, had amassed a huge fortune , The...
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