Tsutomu Shimomoto
Birthday: 1917-10-02
Place of Birth: Kochi, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Fifth Movement
When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the ...
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Foundry Town
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and on...
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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 Heart
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon rea...
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Cape Ashizuri
Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows t...
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The Song of the Bwana Toshi
Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world comp...
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Fountainhead
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply....
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The Sleeping Beast Within
A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the crimina...
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Vacuum Zone
Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his t...
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How Sorrowful
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to ...
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The War Without Weapons
It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which wa...
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Beyond the Green Hills
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was ag...
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Story of a Prostitute
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds...
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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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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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The Song of the Season
A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure lo...
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Gone in the Rain
Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They...
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The Tomb & the Divorce
Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with b...
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Crest of Betrayal
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyal...
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Kikenna onna
Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper....
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The Beautiful Teenager
A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him....
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Distant Love
A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman....
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A Chain of Islands
When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how...
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The Matsukawa Incident
Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident....
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Desperate Pursuit
In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sni...
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House on Fire
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his nu...
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Jugyo Sankan no Onna
One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While takin...
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The Swan Elegy
One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a...
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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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Akitsu Hot Springs
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal s...
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The Thick-Walled Room
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victim...
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Tenchu!
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the rut...
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Kaze no Sumu Ie
A human drama that rethinks what it means to be a family through the images of a couple, parent and...
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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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The Four Loves
A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they ...
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High Teen
Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his...
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Ningen Gari
A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs ...
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Dead Beauty at the Bottom of the Sea, Hit Song is a Killing Tape
Set in the glamorous world of songwriting, this is the story of a failed songwriter who kills his mi...
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Female Doctor in the Surgical Ward
Izumi Kayo, who works as a surgeon at a university medical school affiliated hospital in the Sanin r...
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