
Birthday:
12-16-1891
(133 years)
Birthplace:
Tokyo, Japan
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An Enemy of the People
event1946
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Tadashi Imai 1946 movie
Fateful Birthplace
event1961
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A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.
Yasubei Nakayama
event1951
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Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura
Duel in the Sun
Act like Head teacher
event1950
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A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Red Peony of Night
event1950
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A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn
event1937
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Story of a bandit king part 2.
Enoken's Singing Detective Story
event1948
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A modern take on history with songs and comedy presented by Enoken (as Gonza), Fujiyama (as Sukeju), and Kasagi (Gonza’s wife Osaki).
The Kingdom of Spectacles
event1937
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Hide-chan (Hideko Takamine) and her family are on a trip to Tokyo. While visiting a fairground, a pickpocket (Kamatari Furukawa) steals the father's wallet. While everyone is trying to hunt down the thief, Hide-chan decides to make the most of it and enjoy her stay, while the thief and his main pursuer (Akira Kishii) play hide-and-seek among the funfair's spectacles and freakshows
悲劇の将軍 山下奉文
event1953
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When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the Malay front and occupied Singapore at once, and was praised as a "Malay tiger." However, the situation in Japan changed steadily by the failure of Sai pan from the GA Talca translation.
What Made Her Do It?
Act like Sahei Sakamoto
event1930 star_border 7
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Sumiko's father sends her to live with her alcoholic uncle. He sells her to a circus, which is the start of a downward spiral in an unforgiving world.
Ikiru
Act like Worker in Sewage Section
event1952 star_border 8.3
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Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Green Earth
event1942
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Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their families, for the company in order to construct a canal. There are young Chinese resisting the Japanese in this area.
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
event1950 star_border 6.4
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Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
Karayuki-san
event1937
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"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed-race son." - Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University)
Mother Never Dies
event1942 star_border 6
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The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Act like Tangonokami Shizawa
event1941
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This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.
The Scent of Pheasant’s Eye: An Episode from the Tales of Flowers
Act like Schoolmaster
event1935 star_border 4
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When Kaoru's sister-in-law Miyoko arrives at the family home, tender feelings start to grow between the two. However, the initial happiness that Kaoru finds in the company of her beautiful sister-in-law is frustrated by her brother Mitsuo, Miyoko's husband, who intervenes in their budding passion. Full of unspoken words, deeply suggestive mise-en-scène, and forbidden glances, Fukujuso is a compelling melodrama that surprises us with its potent homoeroticism, especially considering its year of production.
Oath on the Burning Sands
event1940
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A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woman (Ri) aside if he is to succeed at building a highway through the "bandit"- (aka anti-Japanese militia-) infested hinterlands.
Murder on The Last Train
event1955
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One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
The Eleventh Hour
Act like Kaichi Yui
event1957 star_border 7.2
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Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
Flowers Blooming In the Storm
event1940
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Jidaigeki from 1940
Living Image
event1948
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A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
Toyuki
Act like Cosmetics' Company President
event1940
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Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country to Japan in order to experience the latter country.
Song of the White Orchid
event1939
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Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the Kazuo Hasegawa/Shirley Yamaguchi (Ri Koran) “Continental Trilogy.” Handsome Hasegawa (representing Japan) runs up against an impertinent Yamaguchi (representing the continent); not surprisingly, in the course of the film the woman comes around and realizes the benevolent intentions of the Japanese. In Song of the White Orchid Yamaguchi leaves Hasegawa, who plays an expatriate working for the railway, because of a misunderstanding. She joins a communist guerilla group plotting to blow up the Manchurian railway. Learning of the subterfuge that led to the misunderstanding, she renews her faith in Hasegawa—and by extension Japan—and tries to undermine the plot.
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf
event1937
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Story of a bandit king.
Hikoroku Laughs a lot
event1936
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Hikoroku Laughs a lot
Enoken's Yaji and Kita
event1939
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Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in which Yaji and Kita, two plebeian nobodies, have all sorts of strange and colorful encounters on the long road from Edo to Kyoto.
The Man of Seven Faces
event1960 star_border 6
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Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.
Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu
event1935
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Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells him that she's pregnant, he begins to worry. His company hasn't paid his backsalary and he doesn't know how he will pay for the new baby. His friend Suihei tells him about a job at a bar, but on his way there, Tokunosuke meets a mysterious man who sells him a newspaper...for tomorrow!
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