Ton Shimada
Birthday: 1917-10-25
Place of Birth: Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Floating Weeds Diary
A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to...
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The Catch
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese village...
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Yellow Crow
Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home aft...
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His Scarlet Cloak
The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's ...
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Pitfall
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit o...
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Night Drum
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return...
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Twice on a Certain Night
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who...
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The Street Without Sun
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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Stepbrothers
In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic ...
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The Song of the Cart
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan....
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu i...
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The Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi
Depicts the boyhood days of Dr. Noguchi, world famous bacteriologist, who was born in a poor village...
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