Birthday: 1919-08-03
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Yūnosuke Itō (伊藤 雄之助 Itō Yūnosuke, 3 August 1919 – 11 March 1980) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films from 1932 to 1979.
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
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Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, ...
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Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichir...
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Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
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Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu i...
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A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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Chuji Kunisada runs into strange adventures which tests his skill as a samurai as he untangles intri...
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A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga...
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After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sen...
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Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters w...
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Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge aga...
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Period film about the legendary detective Umon...
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Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals...
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The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and erot...
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A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor...
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Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class w...
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A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo...
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A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious em...
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Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi...
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The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period....
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The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The ...
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Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...
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Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in...
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A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on...
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Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involv...
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Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakura...
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A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedicati...
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A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keep...
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Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love ad...
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Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukik...
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A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko...
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The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and ...
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A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victim...
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An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and group...
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A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a d...
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A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his ki...
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Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home aft...
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A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once ...
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Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo...
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A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic....
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Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismi...
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A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines....
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This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51)...
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An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the pe...
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During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candida...
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Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical...
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A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded...
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Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie...
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Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a re...
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Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the las...
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At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of...
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Brothers Koji and Seitaro Hatana, belong to the "outcast" caste. Despite their personal qualities—in...
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Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu...
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Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose t...
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Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which rava...
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Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on...
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Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized...
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When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save...
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Seventh film in the Boy Detectives Club series....
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Eighth film in the Boy Detectives Club series....
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Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private"....
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Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a bur...
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Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home....
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Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and...
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Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi....
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In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. H...
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An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love....
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An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinu...
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[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weaken...
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Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yak...
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A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community....
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As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca...
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Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves....
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A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless m...
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The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society....
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Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man w...
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A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying...
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Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s...
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In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food le...
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Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys ...
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The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's ...
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A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the ...
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Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns...
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The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with...
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An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his compan...
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Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama....
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Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game....
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Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Dia...
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A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her fr...
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Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home ...
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In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himse...
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An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has ...
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Yuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the object of...
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Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a re...
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A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...
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The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic ...
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The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executiv...
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A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a d...
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A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president....
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Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag...
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Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshi...
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From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station....
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Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wishe...
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A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that i...
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The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, colle...
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Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. T...
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This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves w...
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