Masami Shimojō
Birthday: 1915-08-26
Place of Birth: Busan, South Korea
Biography: Japanese film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 100 films. Hoping to become a film director, Shimojō traveled to Tokyo in 1935 but ended up joining a theater troupe, debuting on stage in 1936. He made his film debut in 1940, but continued on stage well after World War II, primarily as a member of Gekidan Mingei. He was most known, however, for playing the uncle of Torajiro Kuruma in the long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movies
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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City of Beasts
University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutica...
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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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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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Jungle Block
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon...
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Kids Return
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. Th...
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Morning Fog
Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the...
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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pi...
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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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Blood and Sea
The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago B...
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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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Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II...
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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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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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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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Lost Love
Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his...
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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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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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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendshi...
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Tsugumi
Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoi...
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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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Akio Jissoji’s Museum of Wonders - Volume of Thoughts
A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world ...
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The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for th...
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The Great White Tower
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at ...
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I Have the Sun in My Back
Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from...
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Many Happy Returns
A young man named Kazuo Takayama runs across a religious group whose founder cures an old woman in a...
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This Is Noriko
Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which...
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Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter
Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in ...
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Skinny and Fatty
Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends....
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The Day the Sun Rose
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which rava...
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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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Street of Violence
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chie...
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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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I'll Never Cry!
The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a w...
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Youth A Go Go!
Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young...
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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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Village of Eight Gravestones
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries befor...
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Whirlpool of Flesh
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparen...
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The Seasons of Love
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thank...
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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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The Heart
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon rea...
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Love in Ginza
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his j...
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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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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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Oración
Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given th...
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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 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 Promise
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarra...
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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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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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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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Moscow, My Love
A young talented dancer from Japan is invited to study ballet art at a school at the Bolshoi Theater...
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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 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, 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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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'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 Goes North
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune)...
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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 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 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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The Shadow of Fear
In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation...
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Pacific Porters
Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Capta...
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Ishigassen
Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villag...
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It's a Man's Way of Life
Comedy about a lewd man (Fujita) learning to enjoy life's little pleasures....
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Quick Draw Joe
One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had c...
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The Bride is Fifteen
Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken ...
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A Love that Wagers the World
The first time that up-and-coming architect Yuji Muraoka (Yujiro Ishihara) met Natsuko (Ruriko Asaok...
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The Fascination
After winning a national essay contest, Sakura travels to Europe and meets photographer Mark at the ...
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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 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'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 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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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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