
Birthday:
03-06-1912
Deathday:
09-14-2006 (94 years)
Birthplace:
Nakakawaguchi, Akita, Japan
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To Love and Swear
Act like Shiraishi's wife
event1945
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After facing hard times, an orphan Korean boy gets adopted to Japanese society. He meets several Japanese people who are kind to him, and grows up wanting to repay his debt to Japan, by becoming a kamikaze pilot.
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
event1940
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Part one of two.
Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
Act like Taro's mother
event1959
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A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu
event1939
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A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity Enoken takes to farcical extremes.
Wife of a Lily
event1940
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This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was famous for her seven different voices for men and women of all ages.
Learn from Experience, Part One
Act like Yurie
event1937 star_border 6
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Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of Mizoguchi’s "Water Magician), a rich young woman in love with Shintaro (Minoru TAKADA), a rich young man. Unfortunately, Shintaro’s father is in the process of arranging a marriage for him with Yurie (Chieko TAKEHISA), the scion of an even wealthier family. In order to avoid this, the two young lovers flee to Tokyo to live together. When Shintaro comes back to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father browbeats him into attending the long-arranged marriage meeting with Yurie. While Shintaro is back home, Toyomi goes on a vacation trip with her closest chum, Michiko (Yumeko AIZOME). At a class reunion, Toyomi is to distressed (at not having heard from Shintaro for so long), she doesn’t go out on the town with her classmates. Michiko, however, runs into Shintaro and Yurie (also out on the town), and pulling him aside, demands an explanation.
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Act like Yurie
event1937 star_border 6.2
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Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adversity by Michiko -- and gets considerable moral support from not only her own mother but also from Shintaro's mother and siblings. Even more surprisingly, Yurie strikes up a friendship of sorts with her. When Yurie learns that the child is Shintaro's, she convinces Toyomi that it would be best to let Shintaro (and her) raise Kiyoko, so Toyomi can get on with making a proper life for herself. Tearfully, Toyomi agrees. Sometime later, Michiko goes to visit Toyomi -- and sees her at work, as a kindergarten teacher.
Blizzard Ronin
event1939
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The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.
The Monkey King
Act like Witch
event1940
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A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a mission to prevent a demonic resurrection. As Genjo Sanzo, Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojyo, and Son Goku (Kenichi Enomoto) fight their way to their goal, their path is fraught with internal strife.
Kaze no ko
event1949
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1949 drama film
Kantaro of Ina
event1943
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War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.
Botchan
Act like Kosuzu, the geisha
event1935
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1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Yoru no hato
Act like Okiyo
event1937
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Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.
Nangoku taiheiki
Act like Fujiharu
event1937
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Japanese film.
Harbor of Life
event1944
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Government-sponsored film set during the Pacific War, depicting the lives of people working as stevedores.
Those Who Make Tomorrow
Act like Kin Okamoto, Mother
event1946
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Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, one of whom boards with the sisters and their parents. The girls' father argues with them about their strike but finds his views changing when he loses his job.
Horse
Act like Saku Onoda, Ine's mother
event1941 star_border 5.8
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Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale.
Brother and Sister
event1936 star_border 6
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Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a student, Obata whereas her sister San remains a “good girl.” The mother is very supportive of her daughters, but, the father, Akaza, who is the stonecutter foreman on the damn, lacks control of his family.
Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô
event1934
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Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou
Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
event1940
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Part two of two.
Uta e! Taiyō
event1945
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1945 Japanese movie
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