Sumiko Sakamoto
Birthday: 1936-11-25
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sumiko Sakamoto was born on November 26, 1936 in Osaka, Japan. Sakamoto is a singer and award-winning actress whose heartfelt performances made her a favorite of the late film director Shohei Imamura. Imamura cast her in three of his films, among them "The Ballad of Narayama," winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, in which her brilliant portrayal of an elderly mother not only earned her a kiss from Orson Welles, but also the Japanese Best Actress Award from Nihon Academy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sumiko Sakamoto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Buried Forest
Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mo...
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The Ballad of Narayama
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a...
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The Pornographers
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society...
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Sometimes... Like a Prostitute
A man with a medical condition and a guilty past becomes obsessed with a simple minded girl he finds...
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Rampaging Dog
Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series....
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Quick-Draw Dog
Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth f...
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Return of Gun Dog
Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu se...
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Stray Dog
Stray Dog is a 1966 film directed by Yoshio Inoue. It is the seventh film in the Inu series....
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing th...
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Escape from Japan
As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after b...
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual pow...
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Fearless Comrades
The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but deci...
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The Call of Flesh
A young woman (Dan) who worked as a prostitute in the days following World War II finds herself sexu...
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The Silent Gun
A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, ...
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Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji....
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The Shogun and His Mistresses
Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period....
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Silence Has No Wings
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this al...
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My Father's Dragon
Elmer is told by a traveling cat about a baby dragon who is being held captive and mistreated on the...
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Tenamonya Sandogasa
The Tokaido highway is crowded with people heading for Shimizu Port with the dream of defeating Jiro...
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