
Birthday:
08-06-1909
Deathday:
12-04-2005 (96 years)
Birthplace:
Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
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Debt King Part VII: Millennium
event2000
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Takao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari Bank, Osaka central branch, is caught in a scam by an online financial service.
No Regrets for Our Youth
Act like Itokawa's Mother
event1946 star_border 6.8
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Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of fascism in Japan and becomes involved with two of his students.
Turning Point
event1994 star_border 6
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A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
After Life
Act like Kiyo Nishimura
event1999 star_border 7.2
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On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
Cape Ashizuri
event1954
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1950s Japanese drama.
Sayonara Color
event2005 star_border 5
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Shohei works as a doctor in a seaside hospital. One day, a new patient is admitted to the hospital with ovarian cancer. Shohei is surprised to recognize Michiko, his first love from high school. Shohei has been leading a dissolute bachelor life, paying for the company of high school girls and dating an older woman who works in a local bar, but in reality, for the last twenty years, he has not forgotten Michiko. Unfortunately though, Michiko doesn't remember him at all. Shohei becomes more and more persistent in his attempts to get her to recall their past. At first she is annoyed by his overtures, but gradually warms to the doctor. Under Shohei's kind and patient care, Michiko's condition improves and her cancer becomes operable. The operation is a success, but now Shohei himself learns that he has terminal cancer.
Teenage Wolf
event1960
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In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl! A gloomy portrait of youth, in which distorted energy explodes! A unique social drama that acutely depicts the psychological conflict bubbling in the chest of detectives who are chasing a gang of scoundrels who prey on innocent girls. Adapted from the novel "Kegareta Hankachi".
This Greedy Old Skin
Act like Osaki
event1960
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A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs.
Black Rain
Act like Kin
event1989 star_border 7.5
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Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.
Lady Busters, Virgins in Service of God
event1995
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Beautiful and sexy, pure and wonderful older sisters (Nuns). Punish the wicked.
Eight Hours of Terror
Act like Shizu Yanagisawa
event1957 star_border 7.4
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A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
Saigo no kikyō
event1945
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1945 Japanese movie
Children of Hiroshima
event1952 star_border 7.1
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Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
Fancy Dance
event1989 star_border 6.8
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Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots.
A Quiet Life
Act like Grandmother
event1995 star_border 7.4
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A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
This Happy Life
event1944 star_border 6
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A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.
Will to Live
event1999 star_border 6.3
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It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
Yanagase Blues
Act like Take Fukumoto
event1967
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Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
Battle Heater
Act like Nobu Nakagawa
event1989 star_border 7.2
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Furuchi and Hama are two unsuccessful repair agents and electronic engineers. One day Furichi finds a so-called Kotatsu heater. Soon after this Furichi dies in a traffic accident. But with the help of a stun gun succeed Hama Furichi bring back to life, but also Kotatsu heater comes alive then.
Tower of Lilies
event1953 star_border 6.8
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A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.
Jûnana-sai no teikô
event1957
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Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Raised by her father, Jusaburo, who is the owner of the Matsukawa troupe, she grew up without knowing the love of her mother. She has been on stage since she was a child, but oneday she cried and complained to her father, and she stopped going to school. In a mock exams, Kanako overtook her classmate Tetsuji to take the lead. That evening, Kanako went to the Yasue Theater in the neighboring town with Eikichi, and saw the affair of her stepmother, Yumi, who should have been resting due to her illness. The man ran away in a hurry, and Yumi confessed that Kanako's mother, Miyako, had also run away for the same reason...
Lucky Dragon No. 5
event1959 star_border 7.3
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An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.
Bayside Shakedown
Act like 吉田のおばあちゃん (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 8.5
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A rookie detective learns that life in law enforcement may not be as glamorous as he thought it would be.
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