Toshiko Kobayashi
Also Known As: Тосико Кобаяси, 小林敏子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tsukiji, Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: April 06, 1932
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 29, 2016
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Cruel Story of Youth
Overview: A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-03
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Carmen Comes Home
Overview: A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-03-21
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Boyhood
Overview: When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-12
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The Thick-Walled Room
Overview: A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-31
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Beautiful Days
Overview: Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-25
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The Tattered Wings
Overview: A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-31
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New Tokyo March
Overview: Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose romantic lives intersect. (MoMA)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Danger Stalks Near
Overview: The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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The Eternal Rainbow
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-28
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Modern People
Overview: A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subordinate skillfully conceals the corruption and joins the corrupt, shady relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-09-03
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Carmen's Innocent Love
Overview: Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-11-13
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Kaze no uchi so to
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-24
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Fountainhead
Overview: A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-26
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Overview: After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Overview: This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-23
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Always in My Heart
Overview: Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-15
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Always in My Heart Part 3
Overview: Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-27
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Always in My Heart Part 2
Overview: Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Overview: On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-29
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The Good Fairy
Overview: The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-17
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Broken Drum
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-12-01
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Thus Another Day
Overview: 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...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-27
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Bad Girl
Overview: Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights at a rundown bar, sharing drinks and cigarettes with the lowlife drunks. She has nowhere to turn and no one to talk to, until she is reunited with her childhood friend, Saburo, who brings warmth to her heart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-16
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Black Lizard
Overview: A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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Fireworks Over the Sea
Overview: A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-10-25
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Summer Soldiers
Overview: During the Vietnam War, an American G.I. deserts his base in Japan and escapes to Tokyo with the help of his Japanese bar hostess girlfriend. In the capital he gets involved with an anti-war organization while dodging the military police.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-03-25
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The River Fuefuki
Overview: In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-19
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The Den of Beasts
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-06-08
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The Story of Pure Love
Overview: Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-15
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Twenty-Four Eyes
Overview: From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-15
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A Woman's Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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Shūkin ryokō
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-29
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Midori naru hito: kōhen ai no honryū
Overview: 1956 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-15
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Midori naru hito: zenpen wakare no yogisha
Overview: 1956 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-08
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The Refugee
Overview: A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite his difficult circumstances, he finds love in the form of Sachiko and the two marry. They later travel to Nanjing to live a new life together where Sachiko and Shaochang cooperate with the Japanese-backed government. Their ultimate hope is to secure peace but their idealism is not enough to keep them together through brutal times and with the end of the war the two find themselves facing a divorce... --Osaka Asian Film Festival
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-03
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High Teen
Overview: Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when put in charge of the third year class C, reputed to be the most incorrigible in the whole school, he is faced with surly opposition from the start. However, Terasaki perseveres. His greatest headaches are three students ... Sanae, who develops a "crush" on him, Nakanishi, who seeks to forget his unhappy home life in rugby, and Nire his pal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-26
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