Wakaba Irie
Birthday: 1943-05-12
Place of Birth: Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Wakaba Irie was born on May 12, 1943 in Shiba, Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijôji no kettô (1964), Miyamoto Musashi (1961) and Miyamoto Musashi: Ganryû-jima no kettô (1965).
Movies
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she sm...
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Turning Point
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's ...
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Love of Sawako
Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine...
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I Are You, You Am Me
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through su...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Mi...
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyam...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end ...
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the st...
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Miyamoto Musashi
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man...
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The Deserted City
After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a de...
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Ningyo Sashichi: The Cat’s Golden Claws of Death
Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is "a nice man like a...
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Mattemashita tenkousei!
The son of wandering actors, also a budding actor, little Akira is forced to change school often and...
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The Washing Machine
Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a...
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A Boy's Summer in 1945
Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Su...
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Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transfe...
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The Lord's spy
Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitima...
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Glory to the Filmmaker!
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a numb...
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The Coin Thrower Zenigata
The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusu...
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Three Yakuza
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and s...
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying...
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The Rocking Horsemen
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmeriz...
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Miss Lonely
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously app...
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The Discarnates
A recently divorced writer is reunited with the ghosts of his parents who died when he was a boy. Ho...
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April Fish
A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his mov...
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Black Thief
Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land....
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Jakoman and Tetsu
In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inh...
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Tomorrow
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by ...
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Hanagatami
Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his au...
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Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for ...
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Shiro and Marilyn
Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite...
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A Desirable Marriage
A human drama on the state of marriage today, following the battle between a mother and daughter ove...
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The Third Contest
Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Conseque...
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My Heart Belongs to Daddy
A young woman moves in with her estranged father after her mother passes away....
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The Island Closest to Heaven
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that...
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Giant Rumble
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greates...
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Sada
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and...
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I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each...
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The Domain: The Naniwa Story
Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The...
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Labyrinth of Cinema
When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time ...
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The Stupid Teacher
Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his b...
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Legend of the Cat Monster
A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter i...
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Goodbye for Tomorrow
People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 mont...
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A Touch of Fever
Tatsuru and Shinichiro’s relationship shifts from casual to complicated as love and emotions blur th...
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Soup Opera
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her sudde...
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Chizuko's Younger Sister
The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak ...
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His Motorbike, Her Island
Ko, a motorbike enthusiast from the city wandering the Japanese countryside, falls for the carefree ...
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The Motive
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims app...
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Four Sisters
Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and g...
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Haruka, Nostalgia
Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. H...
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One Summer's Day
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of...
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Beijing Watermelon
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and...
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Switching – Goodbye Me
After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlf...
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