
Birthday:
03-16-1928
(96 years)
Birthplace:
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
event1970 star_border 7.3
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Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. The official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin. Three of them band together to accomplish this, one an expert swordsman, another a huge judo master and the third is deadly with a chain. To escape, she heads for the fishing town of Itso but soon comes face to face with Sankuro, the swordsman...
Price of Life
event1971
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Comedy of a phony doctor.
Only She Knows
event1960
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A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event creates increasing discord and agony for her and her loved ones.
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
event1973 star_border 8
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On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
The Beauty in the Bathroom
event1978
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Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began airing on Asahi TV in the second half of the 1970s and gained popularity. Famous actor Tian Zhimao plays detective wise Kogoro. A magician who targets the Yucun family, who obtain huge wealth through gemstones. Even the wise Kogoro was fooled by his meticulous criminal plan
The Scarlet Camellia
event1964 star_border 5
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A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
The Castle of Sand
Act like Oku
event1974 star_border 7.4
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Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
Boku chin hōrō-ki
event1962
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1962 Japanese movie
Gamblers' Luck
event1966 star_border 7
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A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.
The Rendezvous
Act like Old lady
event1972 star_border 6.3
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The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
Farewell to Spring
Act like Makita's maid
event1959 star_border 6.2
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Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
It's Tough Being a Man
event1969 star_border 8.1
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Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sakura's chance to marry someone, as well as just being a real pain to those around him. There is a sentimental side to him also, and the best way to describe him is that he grows on you.
The Faceless Man
Act like Housewife
event1977
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Okada, who had escaped death in the duel, suffered the greatest humiliation in the presence of his beloved Fumiko, and disappeared. Mitani and Fumiko are united, but when Okada's body is found, Fumiko becomes embroiled in a terrible incident... The story is about a beautiful woman who sends all the men who woo her to their deaths.
Miyamoto Musashi
event1973 star_border 7.1
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In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
Broken Drum
Act like Tsuyu, a maid
event1949 star_border 6.7
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When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
Apostasy
event1948 star_border 5.8
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In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
A Trap
event1965 star_border 7.2
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When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
Weeping Doll
event1951
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A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
One Way Ticket to Love
Act like Young woman
event1960 star_border 5.9
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The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.
Tora-san's Pure Love
event1976 star_border 8.5
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When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.
Tora-san's Love Call
event1971 star_border 8
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Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
event1984 star_border 8
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In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
event1986 star_border 7.5
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During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist.
Call from Darkness
event1981 star_border 5.7
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Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…
Dolls floating down the river
event1962
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A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi bina", which absorbed the customs of the Tottori region.
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