Nobuko Otowa
Birthday: 1925-10-01
Place of Birth: Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nobuko Otowa (1 October 1925 – 22 December 1994) was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 134 films between 1950 and 1994. She was married to film director Kaneto Shindō. She posthumously won the award for best supporting actress at the 19th Japan Academy Prize for A Last Note, having been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer during its production. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nobuko Otowa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Women of Ginza
At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting...
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Onibaba
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who...
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The Naked Island
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...
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Turbid Youth
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, ...
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Kuroneko
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of ...
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As Long as There's Tomorrow
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attemp...
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Dolls floating down the river
A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chiek...
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Strong Women, Weak Men
After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto ...
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Miss Oyu
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her w...
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Don't Mind
Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, an...
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Children of Hiroshima
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the s...
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The Ceremony
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses rit...
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Edo Porn
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives w...
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The Bride from Japan
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three...
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The Last War
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superp...
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A Last Note
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters w...
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious ...
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Human
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people...
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Red Lion
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo...
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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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Tree Without Leaves
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his fi...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets wh...
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department ...
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Demon
Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned ...
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An Inn at Osaka
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from...
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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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Conquest
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to sedu...
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The Iron Crown
A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple...
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Black Board
Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a...
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My Way
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her hu...
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Ditch
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. ...
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Children on the Island
The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops b...
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Story of a Beloved Wife
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno st...
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Arashi Tatsunari
Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this st...
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The Life of Chikuzan
After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shami...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown....
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The Scent of Incense
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
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The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company ...
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Murahachibu
A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections...
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Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha...
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The Tale of Genji
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and l...
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Hymn
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who ...
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Heat Wave Island
Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to ...
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The Approach of Autumn
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with...
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Monument to the Girl's Corps
In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the ...
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Geisha in the Old City
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a mov...
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Lost in the Wilderness
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the ...
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A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto....
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The Wolves
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their w...
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Wedding Ring
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness....
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Nurse's Husband
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But ...
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The Ataka Family
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a g...
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Onna no Natsu
It depicts the emotional ups and downs of a designer who runs a clothing store and her husband over ...
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The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing ...
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The Heart
The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to ...
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Immortal Love
A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. T...
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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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When Women Lie
Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Compan...
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Once a Rainy Day
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth an...
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Location
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adapt...
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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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When a Woman Loves
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman....
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By Player
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dia...
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The Strangling
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that...
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Mother
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of ...
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Free and Easy 5
Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his ...
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Room for Let
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion...
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with ...
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Reminiscence
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel l...
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Born in Sin
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery....
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The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc...
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The Maid Story
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters...
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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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Lost Sex
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has...
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Rise Against the Sword
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight the...
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Shin ono ga tsumi
20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901)....
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The Youth and His Amulet
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god ...
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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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Floating Vessel
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Dr...
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Actress
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasin...
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Dream Street
A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka....
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The Strange Tale of Oyuki
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seduc...
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Sakura-tai Chiru
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in th...
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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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Ai Sureba Koso
The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" ...
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Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 3
The final part takes Shingo into a confrontation with his friend Yagyu Katsunoshin’s uncle in a duel...
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The Child Writers
A touching story about little Futyan and his sister Matiko. Their parents are very poor, but the chi...
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The Beauty and the Dragon
Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempt...
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The Horizon
Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over th...
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A Good Man, A Good Day
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his sur...
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Shojohou
A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and...
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Kyukei no Koya
A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shi...
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The Go Masters
Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese ...
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The Valley Between Love and Death
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that i...
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勘太郎月夜唄
Kantaro, known as a rowdy boy in the town of Ina, attacked the local boss, Kaneoni's Arahira, all by...
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A Hundred-Years' Comedy in Front of the Station
The 21st film in the Ekimae series, commemorating the 35th anniversary of Toho. The film is a loose ...
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Skin-Colored Moon
After the heartbreak of losing a close colleague, a television star vanishes, presumed to have drown...
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Miren
The story follows Tomoko, a writer who becomes involved in a strange and distant relationship with S...
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The Izu Dancer
Kawasaki, a high school student from Ichiko, walks along a mountain path toward Amagi and encounters...
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