Chieko Baisho
Birthday: 1941-06-29
Place of Birth: Kita, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Chieko Baisho (倍賞 千恵子, Baishō Chieko, born June 29, 1941) is a Japanese actress and singer. In Japan, she is well known for her performance as Sakura in the "Otoko wa Tsurai yo" series from 1969 until 1995. In addition, she has acted in many films directed by Yōji Yamada since the 1960s. She won the award for best actress at the 5th Hochi Film Award for "A Distant Cry from Spring".
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The Yellow Handkerchief
The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning ...
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Kabei: Our Mother
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shige...
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The Hidden Blade
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home...
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In Broad Daylight
After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindl...
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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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The Soundless Cry
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one h...
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The Sun of Love and Tears
The golden duo of Yukio Hashi and Chieko Baisho. A film rich in a variety of songs, dances and falli...
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The River Yokobori
Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the...
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A Distant Cry from Spring
The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival ...
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Jungle Emperor Leo
Tezuka Osamu's most famous work "Jungle Emperor Leo" has been made into an animated version a number...
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The Village
This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a m...
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Samurai from Nowhere
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of swor...
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I, the Executioner
Police detectives investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who ...
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Station
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering po...
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Downtown Heroes
The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War....
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Tora-san Loves an Artist
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encount...
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him....
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mits...
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii...
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Plan 75
In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be volun...
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Home from the Sea
On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to...
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Tracing the Gray Summer
Animated film about the Seveso disaster, which took place north of Milan, Italy in 1976....
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer....
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. ...
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches....
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown a...
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan sto...
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Tora-san's Runaway
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to...
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Our Marriage
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere....
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Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride....
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young wom...
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Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abrupt...
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The Fantastic Adventures of Unico
When Unico, a young unicorn, is banished from his family by a pantheon of manipulative gods, his pow...
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Unico in the Island of Magic
A young unicorn named Unico must fight an evil magician and save everyone who's trapped under his sp...
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Tora-san's Love Call
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways....
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying h...
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Where Spring Comes Late
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a min...
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing ca...
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Tora-san's Lovesick
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into U...
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Tora-san's Lullaby
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and l...
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Tora-san, the Intellectual
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. ...
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Oh, My Comrade!
Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fuk...
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It All Began When I Met You
Six love stories following the love lives of ten different people....
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Tora-san's Pure Love
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his...
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Fiddler on the Roof
Special 50th anniversary recording of the Tokyo Imperial Theater production of the Fiddler on the Ro...
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Thousand Cranes
April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton ...
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's ...
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Drunkard's Paradise
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving beh...
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Two Iida
Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair a...
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The Little House
Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discover...
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by th...
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A Heartful of Love
Hiroshi, a 30 year-old businessman, has traveled back in time 20 years. He encounters Kazumi, a youn...
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Tora-san, My Uncle
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced...
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The Rainbow Seeker
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushi...
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Tora-san Makes Excuses
Tora befriends a pretty barbershop owner and runs into Izumi. When Tora twists his ankle, Mitsuo com...
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Stage-Struck Tora-san
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn w...
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Mama, I Need You!
After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone ...
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Talk of the Town Tora-san
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on ...
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It's Tough Being a Man
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but recon...
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Dislikes
An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has tho...
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A Trap
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shar...
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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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Our Wonderful Years
The story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from the 1920's to the 1960's....
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Tora-san to the Rescue
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to ...
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Tora-san's Easy Advice
Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a f...
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Tora-san's Matchmaker
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a...
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Tora-san Confesses
When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter t...
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Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another ...
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vie...
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is a...
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly tu...
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that...
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), run...
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She ...
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san mee...
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Tora-san's Song of Love
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san...
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Tora-san, the Expert
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a y...
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully compre...
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Tora-san's Promise
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarra...
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Foster Daddy, Tora!
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to To...
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Tora-san's Love in Osaka
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to tra...
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Ballad of a Workman
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work...
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying a...
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Sing, Young People!
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of the...
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Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio the...
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Tokyo Newcomer
A young Chinese Go board game player arrives in Japan for training. He doesn't speak Japanese and be...
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As the Clouds Scatter
A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once ...
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The Sunshine Girl
A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life....
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The Rainbow Seeker 2
Sequel to The Rainbow Seeker where Ryo meets Katsu on a small island in the south of Japan. There, h...
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Our Happiness Alone
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobu...
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The Lovable Tramp
Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with ...
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Honokaa Boy
Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an...
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Karate Cop 2
Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed ...
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The Image of Mother
A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a famil...
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her si...
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Gamblers' Luck
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of advent...
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Women Who Do Not Divorce
Keiichi (Kenichi Hagiwara) is a weather man. He gets involved with two married women, Yoshiko (Mitsu...
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Glory on the Summit
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of...
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Only the Cat Knows
Masaru and Yukiko have been married 44 years. They have three children who live independently from t...
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Lover's Duet
A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the sa...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
TV adaptation of the novel "Twenty-Four Eyes", combining animation with a few live-action scenes....
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Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th...
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Weathering with You
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, ...
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Howl's Moving Castle
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses ...
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Zatoichi: The Last
A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into ba...
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Let's Have A Dream
A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t...
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Song of Love
The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people....
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The Greatest Challenge of All
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years...
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The Million Dollar Pursuit
Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of di...
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Shichinin no keiji
Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in ...
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My Voiceless Friends
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visi...
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461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son
Kazuki Suzumoto is divorced and he lives with his 15-year-old son Kouki. Kouki is in a susceptible t...
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Tora-san Goes North
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune)...
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Arc
Rina is living a nomadic existence when at age 19 she meets her mentor Ema and gets a job doing "Bod...
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55th anniversary performance of Tora-San: Rakugo, Talk and Tora Jiro Returns
This special performance was held to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the release of the film Tor...
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Tokyo Taxi
One day, taxi driver Koji Usami is tasked with driving 85-year-old Sumire Takano from Shibamata, Tok...
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Tokyo do mannaka
Set in the downtown area in the heart of Tokyo, this film depicts the lives of poor but kind-hearted...
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