Shinichi Himori
Birthday: 1907-01-10
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Shinichi Himori (10 January 1907 – 12 September 1959), born Kazuo Moriyama, was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1925 to 1959. Born in Tokyo, Himori entered the Shochiku studios in 1924 and, after starting out in side roles, became a leading player, particularly specializing in realistic films after the coming of sound.[1] With his starring role in Yasujirō Ozu's The Only Son as the best example, he was often featured in films by famous directors for his earnest acting that smelled of reality.[1] He became a by player after the war, but died of a heart attack in 1959. Shochiku honored him with a company funeral. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shinichi Himori, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ikiru
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Mole Alley
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Birth of Romance
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Sunny house
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A Star Athlete
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The Genealogy of Women
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Five Siblings
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Southern Wind
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Otoko no iki
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のんき侍大暴れ
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Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
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Tomorrow Will Be Fine Weather
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Okoto and Sasuke
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New Tokyo March
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Dancing Mistress
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A Certain Woman
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The Layabout and Seabathing
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A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
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Notes of an Itinerant Performer
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South Wind 2
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Always in My Heart Part 2
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The Foster Mother
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Four Seasons of Children
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Warm Current
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The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
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Nobuko
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The Lights of Asakusa
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The Ball at the Anjo House
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Jubilation Street
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Mr. Shosuke Ohara
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The Boss's Son at College
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The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
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I Graduated, But...
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There Was a Father
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Street Without End
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The Masseurs and a Woman
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Scandal
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Carmen's Innocent Love
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A Japanese Tragedy
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Farewell to Dream
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The Only Son
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Ornamental Hairpin
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Apart from You
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
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Family Meeting
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
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Physical Beauty
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Passion
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Under the Blossoming Peach
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Silver Stream
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Dancing Girls of Izu
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Homecoming
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Dawn Chorus
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Namida no Sekinin
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悲しき瞳
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Oh! Carefree, Aren't You?
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Young Master
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Song of Youth
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The Golden Demon
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The Sun Rises from the East
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The Cheerleading Captain's Love
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Mother of the East
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学生社長
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