Yumeko Aizome
Biography: Yumeko Aizome, born Yachiyo Yokoyama, is a Japanese actress. In 1942, she married two-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Masanori Yusa (1915-1975) and they received a daughter Makoto. She is now and actress called Naoko Yusa.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 25, 1915
Deathday: N/A
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Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
1949-05-10
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
Overview: The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-05-10
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Japanese Girls at the Harbor
1933-06-01
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Overview: Set in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge to be friends. But when a youth named Henry appears on his motorcycle and offers to take Sunako for a ride, we know that this friendship won't last and that the lives of both girls will change in ways they are barely able to comprehend, and can do little to change.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
1934-06-28
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
Overview: Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko's sister Kyouko has a breakup with her husband and returns home. Kyouko is clearly interested in Keitaro and Yae becomes anxious.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-06-28
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Moth-eaten Spring
1932-05-27
Moth-eaten Spring
Overview: Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-05-27
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The Ball at the Anjo House
1947-09-27
The Ball at the Anjo House
Overview: After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the family holds one last ball before leaving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-09-27
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A Mother Should Be Loved
1934-05-11
A Mother Should Be Loved
Overview: A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for always punishing him more severely than his stepsibling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937-12-18
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Overview: Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adversity by Michiko -- and gets considerable moral support from not only her own mother but also from Shintaro's mother and siblings. Even more surprisingly, Yurie strikes up a friendship of sorts with her. When Yurie learns that the child is Shintaro's, she convinces Toyomi that it would be best to let Shintaro (and her) raise Kiyoko, so Toyomi can get on with making a proper life for herself. Tearfully, Toyomi agrees. Sometime later, Michiko goes to visit Toyomi -- and sees her at work, as a kindergarten teacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-12-18
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Learn from Experience, Part One
1937-10-01
Learn from Experience, Part One
Overview: Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of Mizoguchi’s "Water Magician), a rich young woman in love with Shintaro (Minoru TAKADA), a rich young man. Unfortunately, Shintaro’s father is in the process of arranging a marriage for him with Yurie (Chieko TAKEHISA), the scion of an even wealthier family. In order to avoid this, the two young lovers flee to Tokyo to live together. When Shintaro comes back to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father browbeats him into attending the long-arranged marriage meeting with Yurie. While Shintaro is back home, Toyomi goes on a vacation trip with her closest chum, Michiko (Yumeko AIZOME). At a class reunion, Toyomi is to distressed (at not having heard from Shintaro for so long), she doesn’t go out on the town with her classmates. Michiko, however, runs into Shintaro and Yurie (also out on the town), and pulling him aside, demands an explanation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Kokusai Mitsuyudan
1944-05-11
Kokusai Mitsuyudan
Overview: Directed by Daisuke Ito.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-05-11
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Dragnet Girl
1933-04-27
Dragnet Girl
Overview: A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-04-27
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The Boss's Son at College
1933-10-31
The Boss's Son at College
Overview: The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufacturer, Fuji basks in the glory of his athletic celebrity. Attracting the attention of admiring young women, Fuji resists family pressure to settle down and marry after college. Instead, he spends much of his time drinking and womanizing, behavior which eventually leads the college officials to expel him from the team.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-10-31
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東海水滸伝
1945-07-12
東海水滸伝
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-07-12
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Sôbô
1933-12-07
Sôbô
Overview: Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-07
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The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
1933-01-14
The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
Overview: This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict. 'Virtually plotless, and feeling more like comic sketches than fully developed stories,' writes Arthur Nolletti, Jr, 'these light comedies, or farces, take a wholly trivial matter (often a socially embarrassing situation) and use it as a springboard for a succession of gags.' Much of the films' distinction comes from the wit of Gosho's direction, the imaginative use of the new sound technology and the charm of the acting, particularly of the heroines (Kinuyo Tanaka in Bride; Hiroko Kawasaki in Groom). Yet in both films, Gosho finds room for some shrewd observation of character and environment, subtly exploring the values and assumptions of the suburban petit bourgeoisie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-01-14
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A face glowing at night
1946-06-13
A face glowing at night
Overview: Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling him to return the 5.5 million yen jewel he stole to the govt. The next day, the jewel disappears. Investigator Yamazaki investigates...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-06-13
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Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume
1949-11-17
Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume
Overview: The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Third installment of a wartime film trilogy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-11-17
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Children of the Sun
1938-05-18
Children of the Sun
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1939
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-05-18
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Great X
1948-05-07
Great X
Overview: A 1948 Japanese film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-05-07
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Crybaby Apprentice
1938-03-17
Crybaby Apprentice
Overview: A fatherless boy's mother passes him from one aunt to another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-03-17
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A Trap
1965-05-28
A Trap
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-28
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948-09-26
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Overview: Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-09-26
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Miniature
1953-04-01
Miniature
Overview: Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Gate of Flesh
1948-08-10
Gate of Flesh
Overview: A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money — falling in love is forbidden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-08-10
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Goju no to
1944-08-17
Goju no to
Overview: Based on Kōda Rohan's novella The Five-Storied Pagoda.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-08-17
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The Official And The Princess of Thieves
1951-01-05
The Official And The Princess of Thieves
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-01-05
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Yaji Kita Cat Ghost Road
1949-10-20
Yaji Kita Cat Ghost Road
Overview: Film about Ghost-cat.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-10-20
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