
Birthday:
05-30-1935
Deathday:
11-01-1997 (62 years)
Birthplace:
Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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Pineapple Butai
Act like Yogi
event1959
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The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.
Lost Paradise
Act like Suzuki
event1997 star_border 5.8
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Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. Together they find the passion no longer present in their marriages.
Kids
event1985 star_border 5
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A girl whose younger brother as well as her lover were killed is drawn with a pistol in her hand.
Birth of Romance
Act like Self - Singer
event1957
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The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks singer Hibari Misora to perform. Musical youth comedy with young actors, passion, funny songs and laughter. Hibari Misora appears as herself.
Utau yajikita kogane dōchū
event1957
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1957 Japanese movie
The Eternal Rainbow
Act like Minoru
event1958 star_border 6.3
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Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Act like Genkichi Karuma (Episode 2)
event1988 star_border 7
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Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that Shizuka tries her best to restrict her diet and please Kazuki. "It's So Far Away!" Karuma Sae is an office lady who works in the city center but lives with her family in a house far away from her work. Because she is always rushing to catch the last train, she can never enjoy a decent date with her boyfriend, Oishi Mamoru. Her father is also always interfering in her life, so she can't appreciate the city life and isn't happy. "Get Ready to Drive!" Masuko is a new taxi driver in Tokyo who is very stressed from dealing with the behavior of some passengers. One night he drives a very beautiful drunk hostess home. "What Is English?" Kosaka Shigeru, a businessman, was transferred to a Chicago branch factory. He tried hard to learn English, practicing day and night, but couldn't improve as much as he expected.
The Men Who Made Ultraman
event1989 star_border 10
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A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.
Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi
event1968
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A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.
その手にのるな
event1958
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A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away. Detective Kuribayashi, who was involved in the investigation, turned his eyes to Kishida Ryohei, a cabaret musician who lives in a nearby apartment. He had a criminal record for stabbing his wife, who had betrayed him, and a match he worked for had fallen at the scene of the murder. However, Kishida, who appeared at the police station, stubbornly denied the crime, and he returned to his apartment without physical evidence.However, the residents of the apartment who learned of this had been cold-blooded and rumored to be a murderer. Kishida has a secret crush on the stripper Tachibana Yumi, who lives in the apartment directly opposite.However, Yumi has a lover of a plumber named Maki Shinji.
Love and the Shop Curtain
event1961
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Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 Tokyo Olympics. Maki, the son of the owner of the Benten Hotel, likes Yuri and wants to get closer to her. So, he asks Milton, an American exchange student, to stay at her inn so he can get closer to her. But Yuri is in love with Shin, a cook at her inn. And although Shin likes her too, the two are constantly bickering. Complicating matters more, is that every other available girl also likes Shin including Chikako, who lives at his boarding house, and Chikoma, who is a geisha. One day when Yuri gets a phone call, she suspects that her mother might be having an affair. But it turns out that Otami reunited with her old flame Tomo, who also used to work as a chef at the inn but left because he feared that their class backgrounds were too different. When Shin learns that Yuri is going to marry...will history repeat itself?
One Way Ticket to Love
Act like Kenji Shirai
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.
Tomorrow's Sun
event1959 star_border 6.1
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A playful short film made in the style of a trailer for a fictional feature film that seems to be a spoof of films that were popular in Japan at the time.
Farewell to Spring
Act like Takuya Minemura
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.
Spring Dreams
Act like Yukio
event1960 star_border 5.8
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When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
Furimuita hanayome
Act like Shinichi
event1961
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Japanese comedy film.
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
Act like Komura
event1958
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Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
See You at the Campground
event1995
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Japanese romantic comedy film.
Thus Another Day
Act like Gorô Mori
event1959 star_border 5.6
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A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man...
Killers on Parade
event1961 star_border 6.2
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A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.
Lifetime Insecurity
Act like Kohei Hanazawa
event1994
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In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.
Hobo Village
event1958
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Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.
Case of the Disjointed Murder
event1977
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In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...
Donto ikōze
event1959
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Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.
Youth in Fury
Act like Seiichi Mizushima
event1960 star_border 6.7
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A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insoluble feelings of alienation.
The Strangers Upstairs
Act like Masami Hamuro
event1961 star_border 6
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After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.
The Detective
Act like Fumiaki Nishizawa
event1984
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Detective Muramatsu's wife, Fusae, is killed by a drug addict. After the criminal climbs to the roof of the house with a hostage, Muramatsu shoots him dead in order to rescue the hostage, but the public denounces his actions as stemming from the personal grudge of a detective whose wife was just murdered, and he is demoted.
Tokyo Omnibus
event1959
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The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.
Makeup
event1987
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Danchizuma no sakebi
Act like Kenzo Hiranuma
event1983
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A man she was once in a relationship with has been killed. A wife keeping a secret from her husband gets involved in a strange case.
Futari no onna
event1983
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After Emiko, a bookstore owner, is driven to suicide by loan sharks, her orphaned son Eisuke decides to take his revenge on them. As Eisuke has no relatives, he is taken in by Keiko, who keeps an eye out for him due to his unusual behavior. One day, Eisuke breaks into the loan company with an improvised gun. In the moment, Keiko ends up becoming Eisuke's accomplice and helps him succeed in the robbery. However, the two are surprised when they hear something on the TV news that differs from the truth.
A Taxing Woman
Act like Middle-aged Man
event1987 star_border 6.9
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Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
The Unspoiled Diamond
event1982 star_border 3
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A college student has an affair with a married, middle-aged teacher.
Oh, My Son!
event1979 star_border 5.2
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A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
Daigoro vs. Goliath
Act like Saito, zookeeper
event1972 star_border 4.8
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An inventor and his family try to raise funds to feed a giant monster named Daigoro so that he doesn't shrink. Meanwhile, a meteor lands into the sea bringing with it another giant monster named Goliath. Will Daigoro be able to stop Goliath?
The Makioka Sisters
Act like Nomura
event1983 star_border 7.3
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This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.
Professional Killers
(1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 7.3
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A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...
Ashita Kara no Koi
(32 ep.)
event1970
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Set in a neighborhood near a private railway station in the suburbs of Tokyo, this cheerful home drama depicts various events that occur in the homes of merchants and businessmen, as well as love affairs between men and women of all ages. It is a story of people of goodwill and kindness.
Ai yori aoku
Act like 岩井(コック) (309 ep.)
event1972
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The 12th NHK Asadora. Set in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, at the end of the Pacific War. Maki is the heroine, married to Shuichi who must go to war. She stays home and takes on the role of other war widows, managing business and a Chinese restaurant.
The 101st Proposal
Act like 矢吹孝夫 (12 ep.)
event1991 star_border 7.6
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101st Marriage Proposal is a "Beauty and the Beast" story starring Takeda Tetsuya (Virgin Road, 3-nen B-gumi Kinpachi Sensei) as a down-on-his-luck man who has gone through 99 omiai (arranged dates with the intention of marriage if the date goes well). Not particularly smart, nor handsome, nor rich, he is a man who cannot lie and of course, has a heart of pure gold. On the 100th omiai, he meets Kaoru (Asano Atsuko), an extremely beautiful and talented cellist who can't forget her dead fiancee.
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