
Birthday:
02-18-1933
(92 years)
Birthplace:
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
Act like Oyasu
event1958
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Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, mistaken identity, and misunderstood events. Another film adaptation of the famous novel Ikku Jippensha Footing It Along the Tokaido (Tokaidochu Hizakurige)
Keshin
event1962
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1962 Japanese movie
A Holiday in Tokyo
event1958
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May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. But she is spotted and the press has a field-day with the returning celebrity. Her hopes of rest shattered, she agrees to put on a large-scale fashion show.
Evening Calm
event1957
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A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.
誘拐
event1962
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1962 Japanese movie
The Beloved Image
event1960
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A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.
Rodan
Act like Female Honeymooner (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 6.5
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Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.
Princess and I
event1962
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1962 Japanese movie
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Act like Kohana
event1957
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Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful.
Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
The Ghost of Yotsuya
Act like Oiwa
event1959 star_border 6
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In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance.
Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
event1959
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Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. Ocho, a resident of an apartment building, hears about this and secretly plans to follow Otose, the owner of Mizuta-ya, who became famous as Utamaro's model. At this time, the Kano school, headed by Kano Eikawa, which was under the control of the shogunate, is dissatisfied with Utamaro's fame and tries to compromise him…
Otoko to onna no sei no naka
event1962
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1962 Japanese movie
The Red Water
event1963
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Comedy drama film
When Women Lie
event1963 star_border 7
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Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).
The Living Koheiji
event1957
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The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.
The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
Act like Queen of the spiders
event1959
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The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original legends, this film substitutes the spindly comic actor Norihei Miki, sans makeup.
Tough Guy
Act like Ochiyo
event1961
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Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi and Sada set out to rescue her.
Vagabonds from Badgerville
Act like Kinuta (Oden)
event1961 star_border 7
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A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.
The Radiant Prince
Act like Lady Rokujo
event1961
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Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new tale of his further romantic adventures. Young Genji, the emperor’s illegitimate son cuts a swath through the women of the imperial court, while still mourning the spirit of his late mother who died while he was still a child. Driven to an obsession with the emperor’s new concubine, Lady Fujitsubo, whose resemblance to his late mother originally caught the eye of the emperor, young Genji embarks upon a reckless affair with her that could cost him his life.
The Old Temple Well
Act like Kikuji
event1961
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Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost.
Les Mesdemoiselles
Act like Akiko
event1961 star_border 6
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A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against the bold spirited love makers and begin to take a liking to them is the theme of the picture.
Snow Country
Act like Hanae
event1957 star_border 6.7
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It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
event1957 star_border 6
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Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane
event1960 star_border 4
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Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse, so that she can become empowered as an agent of her father's vengeance.
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Act like Takahime
event1958 star_border 6
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Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
Lips of Ruin
event1963
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Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also know in English as “Black Parking Lot”.
Bara to ryū
event1961
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1961 Japanese movie
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