Noriko Matsumoto
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: August 09, 1935
Deathday: March 26, 2014
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Gender: Female
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Jidanya
Overview: Every day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement agents (jidanya), mediators between the parts and the insurance companies to avoid time-consuming legal actions that could come when no settlement is reached (while cheating both parties out of some piece of the settlement pay). Genkichi is a well versed old-timer, that sees how his freshly out of collage son struggles to fit into the business, while at the same time facing one of his lowest rivals in a car crash incident.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-30
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Angel and the Outlaw
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-11
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Facing to the Clouds
Overview: A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Nakafuji. Reiko's father was a member of the Diet who was assassinated six years ago. Through Reiko, Takema joins Tsūkai-kai, a group of young people who respect her late father's political ideas. With the assistance of Tsukai-kai, Takema eventually uncovers the political scandal related to postwar compensation which led to the murder of Reiko's father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-01
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The Warped Ones
Overview: A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-03
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Badge of the Night
Overview: A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case. Nightclub-managing, drug-dealing gangster Uchida is the prime suspect in the case until he commits suicide. Kobayashi then discovers evidence that points to the doctor sibling of an innocent girl. The climax in a rural snowy locale is suspenseful and well-staged.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-31
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Apart from Life
Overview: A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-30
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Band of Ninja
Overview: A young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
Genres: Animation Drama Action War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-15
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Have Wings on Your Heart
Overview: Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-14
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Glass-Hearted Johnny
Overview: Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and her brutal yakuza pimp (George Ai).
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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The Girls and the Students
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-21
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The Dragon Crest
Overview: A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-10
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The Gambling Monk
Overview: One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-13
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Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
Overview: A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-01-28
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The Dawn of Asia
Overview: The Dawn of Asia (アジアの曙) is a TV drama consisting of thirteen episodes about the trans-China/Japan collaboration of revolutionaries in the early twentieth century. It was Nagisa Oshima’s rare attempt to direct a TV drama in a social atmosphere in which Japan was embracing postwar prosperity as well as the effects of permeating mass media. Making an effort to reach out to the mass audience through a seemingly conventional method of filmic representation, Dawn of Asia takes up the epic of trans-Asiatic solidarity while challenging nationalism on both sides.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-19
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