Birthday: 1911-05-18
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira....
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This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was fa...
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A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring...
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It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for t...
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One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the...
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On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting h...
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A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most no...
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A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a docto...
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Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based ...
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In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the sout...
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"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute ...
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The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retire...
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The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son....
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About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and h...
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In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the gr...
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A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious em...
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A film that begins with wit and comedy when a husband tries to hide and mask his drinking, which his...
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Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in...
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Young Hiroko’s (Takako Irie) conservative principles place her at odds with most modern women, as sh...
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This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an und...
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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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Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some ...
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Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanak...
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In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization fr...
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In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is cur...
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Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early da...
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A period comedy set at the end of the Sengoku Period about Sasuke Saruhi, a middle-aged ninja....
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This movie depicts poor yet kind and modest people, focusing on sibling love....
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After a transfer to a rural factory, salesman Hideyoshi faces blunders, schemers, and rivalries but ...
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Optimistic student Hideyoshi struggles to land a job at Japan Motors, facing setbacks and rivalry bu...
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