Birthday: 1900-12-06
Place of Birth: Kishima, Saga, Japan
Biography: Actor. Appeared on numerous stages and films as a member of the Enoken troupe led by Kenichi Enomoto.
After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went ...
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Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yone...
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A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa...
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This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara ...
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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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Period film about the legendary detective Umon...
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A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy....
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Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase h...
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A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First p...
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A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three...
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A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacatio...
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The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to he...
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Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the N...
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A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s ...
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After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's ...
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A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It te...
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A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag conta...
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Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become su...
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An irreverent take on a medieval Noh drama, Hokaibo sees Enoken play the titular monk whose lusts dr...
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Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is tak...
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Enoken's pickpocket Kinta (returned from the Chakkiri Kinta movies) finds some unexpected trouble: a...
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Depicts the checkered story of a businessman working for a toy company in financial trouble, who ove...
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Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was ag...
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A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithf...
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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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Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father,...
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Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, ...
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The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night ...
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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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Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When h...
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Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled visio...
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A comedic tale told in four parts, this film follows the antics of the pickpocket Kinta as he is pur...
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Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the ...
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This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan....
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Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-midd...
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An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from...
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A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The land...
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A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con ...
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Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her fat...
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A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. Wh...
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A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the ser...
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Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a...
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The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily...
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Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground....
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A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with h...
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The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyam...
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A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple....
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A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri....
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Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman or...
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Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop....
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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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Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in pos...
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Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young ...
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Enoken plays a magician real powers come from his magical hat. A jealous theater owner sends girls, ...
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Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast abo...
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Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling again...
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The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a scho...
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A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman....
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Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who...
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A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies ...
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Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all t...
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Nobuko and five male friends graduate from a high school, promising to remain friends forever. One y...
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After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Depa...
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A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been...
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In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was over...
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After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his il...
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1930s Japanese comedy....
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Enoken plays legendary ninja Sarutobi Sasuke, whose magical powers never help as much as expected - ...
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An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu i...
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A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of wave...
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Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching de...
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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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Mitsuo Hayama, who is preparing for his entrance examinations, secretly plans to take a trip with hi...
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Frankie Sakai plays a Chino-Japanese man who after trudging along in odd jobs discovers his true tal...
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Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. M...
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Akio Tsukaro, dreaming of working for a beauty school's flag shop one day, stayed at Bunta Tadokoro ...
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Shimizu Jirocho, the president, manages two businesses: Izumo Kanko-sha and the group inn "Daikokuya...
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Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, ce...
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The film is based on the 1959 hit song of the same name by the Three Cats....
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The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide...
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In the former landfill, where construction is currently underway, the corpse of a middle-aged man wi...
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The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, colle...
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The First Investigation Department is investigating a murder case that took place at a government ag...
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The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspec...
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A college football star gets caught in a scandal involving a geisha teacher, endangering his team’s ...
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A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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A reformed bartender is blackmailed into aiding a heist by former gang associates, leading to betray...
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A university graduate determined to become a fishmonger defies his mother's wishes, tangles with bar...
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A beer salesman with a passion for fishmongering stumbles through mishaps, rivalries, and gangster t...
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Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very ba...
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Katsuko, daughter of a prestigious inn owner, is urged into an arranged marriage with Keisuke, the n...
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A conman team swindles through jewel scams, marriage fraud, and fake school admissions. Their scheme...
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A TV writer and a director stranded in a rural town witness the young villagers’ tangled romances. D...
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After winning a singing contest, Momoko leaves her rural village for Tokyo to pursue her dream. Misu...
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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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