Shin Saburi

Shin Saburi

Birthday: 1909-02-12

Place of Birth: Utashinai, Hokkaido, Japan

Biography: ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Shin Saburi (佐分利 信, Saburi Shin; February 12, 1909 in Hokkaidō, Japan – September 22, 1982) was a Japanese film actor noted for his leading roles in a number of films by the director Yasujiro Ozu including Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941), Tea Over Rice (1952), Equinox Flower (1958) and Late Autumn (1960). Description above from the Wikipedia article Shin Saburi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Late Autumn
Late Autumn

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular...

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There Was a Father
There Was a Father

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither...

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Equinox Flower
Equinox Flower

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares...

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Marching Song
Marching Song

A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki....

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The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man ...

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Zoku aizen katsura
Zoku aizen katsura

1939 Japanese movie...

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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to ...

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Frozen River
Frozen River

A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one...

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Flower Shop Curtain
Flower Shop Curtain

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in ...

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Divorce
Divorce

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The Castle of Sand
The Castle of Sand

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To...

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Hiroba no kōdoku
Hiroba no kōdoku

Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta...

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Woman in the Mist
Woman in the Mist

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed every...

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Housewife Camellia
Housewife Camellia

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime commit...

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A Man's Recompense: Part 1
A Man's Recompense: Part 1

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archa...

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A Man's Recompense: Part 2
A Man's Recompense: Part 2

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archa...

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Southern Wind
Southern Wind

Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is...

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The Flower is not False
The Flower is not False

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously...

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South Wind
South Wind

Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper s...

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The Trio's Engagements
The Trio's Engagements

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japane...

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Record of a Woman Doctor
Record of a Woman Doctor

A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free medic...

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Wakaki sugata
Wakaki sugata

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Rise, Fair Sun
Rise, Fair Sun

Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoil...

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Settlement of Love
Settlement of Love

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four ...

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The New Road: Akemi
The New Road: Akemi

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow ari...

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Fossilized Wilderness
Fossilized Wilderness

Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Divisio...

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A Brother and His Younger Sister
A Brother and His Younger Sister

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. T...

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Freedom School
Freedom School

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surpri...

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Fountainhead
Fountainhead

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply....

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The Woman’s Reflective Pool
The Woman’s Reflective Pool

Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office ...

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Our Planes Fly South
Our Planes Fly South

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Temptation
Temptation

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his...

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Half Virgin
Half Virgin

Miyake has a boyfriend, Daijiro Natsukawa, who is a novelist, but considering her future marriage, M...

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The Family
The Family

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power...

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Glowing Autumn
Glowing Autumn

A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Sa...

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Sennichimae fukin
Sennichimae fukin

1945 Japanese movie...

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The Rokumeikan
The Rokumeikan

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima....

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Burden of Life
Burden of Life

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to...

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South Wind 2
South Wind 2

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in ...

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Uzu
Uzu

1961 Japanese movie...

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August without Emperor
August without Emperor

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove...

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Countryside Accountant's Government Reform
Countryside Accountant's Government Reform

Genichiro Okugawa is appointed as the head of accounting in a feudal domain and travels with his ser...

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Family Diary
Family Diary

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married...

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Hunting Rifle
Hunting Rifle

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who ...

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Family Meeting
Family Meeting

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life....

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The Masseurs and a Woman
The Masseurs and a Woman

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masse...

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Sinking the Unsinkable
Sinking the Unsinkable

Japanese Warmovie...

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The Spy Has Not Died Yet
The Spy Has Not Died Yet

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Nichijô no tatakai
Nichijô no tatakai

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Three Women of the North
Three Women of the North

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Thr...

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On This Earth
On This Earth

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m...

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Lady Doctor Kinuyo
Lady Doctor Kinuyo

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families al...

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The Golden Demon
The Golden Demon

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playbo...

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The Incident
The Incident

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest...

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Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru

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The Fixer
The Fixer

Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confu...

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Vermilion and Green
Vermilion and Green

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees....

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When a Woman Loves
When a Woman Loves

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman....

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The Refugee
The Refugee

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying...

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Island of Hell
Island of Hell

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946....

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The Waves
The Waves

Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant....

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Men vs. Women
Men vs. Women

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the er...

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Moon Over the Ruins
Moon Over the Ruins

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song....

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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determ...

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Tokyo Omnibus
Tokyo Omnibus

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who ru...

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Army
Army

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's...

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The Fossil
The Fossil

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a gli...

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The Three Undelivered Letters
The Three Undelivered Letters

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay...

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Akutoku
Akutoku

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern ...

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Goodbye, Hello
Goodbye, Hello

Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obliga...

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May Love Be Restored
May Love Be Restored

A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk....

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Island of the Evil Spirits
Island of the Evil Spirits

Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets...

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Dôkoku
Dôkoku

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The Wicked
The Wicked

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he...

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The Tree of Love
The Tree of Love

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a...

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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Japanese Godfather: Ambition

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking con...

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Izu no musumetachi
Izu no musumetachi

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Warm Current
Warm Current

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital,...

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The Cast-Off
The Cast-Off

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executiv...

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Magnitude 7.9
Magnitude 7.9

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored....

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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation....

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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation....

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Japan's Don
Japan's Don

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with...

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The New Road: Ryota
The New Road: Ryota

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow ari...

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Rainy Night Duel
Rainy Night Duel

Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Desp...

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I Want to Be a Shellfish
I Want to Be a Shellfish

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Sh...

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Let's Go in Good Spirits
Let's Go in Good Spirits

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were cal...

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娘十八嘘つき時代
娘十八嘘つき時代

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The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years...

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Probation
Probation

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Homecoming
Homecoming

A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistr...

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Mother and Child
Mother and Child

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his ne...

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Kinuyo's First Love
Kinuyo's First Love

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend....

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Ah,  Youth
Ah, Youth

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Weeds with flowers
Weeds with flowers

Weed with Flowers...

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Dawn Chorus
Dawn Chorus

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor....

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Dancing with a Mask
Dancing with a Mask

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident....

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Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the Americ...

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First Love Questions and Answers
First Love Questions and Answers

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Thirst
Thirst

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Rira no hana wasureji
Rira no hana wasureji

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with inves...

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Otome no inori
Otome no inori

1959 Japanese movie...

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白い南風
白い南風

1961 Japanese movie...

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Shiroi Kiba
Shiroi Kiba

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Yasen gungakutai
Yasen gungakutai

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Farewell Tango
Farewell Tango

A heartrending love story between an aspiring singer and a unnamed composer. Sobbing love songs sung...

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Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl

When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend...

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