Michiko Kuwano
Also Known As: Митико Кувано
Biography: Michiko Kuwano (桑野通子, Kuwano Michiko, 4 January 1915 – 1 April 1946) was a Japanese actress. She appeared in more than forty films from 1934 to 1946.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: January 04, 1915
Deathday: April 01, 1946
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Hotaru no hikari
Overview: Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their student life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-04-14
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Marching Song
Overview: A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-10-21
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Middle-Aged Man
Overview: The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-08-12
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Zoku aizen katsura
Overview: 1939 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Overview: After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-03-01
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Mr. Thank You
Overview: In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-02-27
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What Did the Lady Forget?
Overview: A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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Theater
Overview: Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.
Genres: Drama War Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-06-28
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Surging Waves
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Forget Love for Now
Overview: Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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A Man's Recompense: Part 1
Overview: Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with his childhood friend Michiko Kuwano, but his mother (Fumiko Okamura) is against her, so he gives up easily and ends up being married to Kinuyo Tanaka.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-08-13
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A Man's Recompense: Part 2
Overview: Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with his childhood friend Michiko Kuwano, but his mother (Fumiko Okamura) is against her, so he gives up easily and ends up being married to Kinuyo Tanaka.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-08-24
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Flower
Overview: Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes marriage but whose mother harbours ill feeling towards her because of an incident in the mountains where a child got into difficulties. Kozoe rejects the proposal but falls ill and when she recovers, decides to devote herself entirely to the world of flower arranging.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-07-15
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Victory of Women
Overview: Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's democratized post-war legal system.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-04-18
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A Brother and His Younger Sister
Overview: A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-04-01
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A Hero of Tokyo
Overview: The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns out to be out a shady scam, and he disappears, leaving his wife to raise the three children alone. In order to support the family, she is obliged to become a bar hostess. She conceals this shameful employment from the children, but the truth comes out years later, after her daughter is rejected by her husband’s family when they investigate her background.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-03-07
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Eclipse
Overview: The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the lawyer Kanda Seiji. In consequence, Shukichi leaves for Tokyo, where he becomes tutor to the son of the rich Iwaki family. The heartbroken Kinue also makes her way to the capital, where she becomes a bar hostess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-11-01
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Family Diary
Overview: Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-09-29
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Sinking the Unsinkable
Overview: Japanese Warmovie
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-03-23
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Family Meeting
Overview: A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-04-03
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Izu no musumetachi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-08-30
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Him, Her, and the Boys
Overview: A Japanese film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-05-30
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Men vs. Women
Overview: A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-08-29
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The Tree of Love
Overview: A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run away to Kyoto, but her child suddenly became sick and she just missed the train and Kozo. She makes it to Kyoto finally, but is unable to meet him. Plus she isn't accepted into Kyoto society. She goes back to her hometown and tries to forget him. She quits the hospital to concentrate on her singing. She makes her professional debut with the hit "Aizen Katsura". Kozo is in the audience.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-09-15
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Let's Go in Good Spirits
Overview: In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means “waiter” literally. They are doing odd jobs in the company including serving tea, ushering visitors, buying tobacco, etc. Ordering lunch for the individual requests was also an important job. Those boys were hired often as soon as they graduated from elementary school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-05-01
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New Woman Question and Answer
Overview: Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko (Kuniko Miyake), one of the seven best friends from the same women's college, is getting married. The man she's marrying is her sister's lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-06-01
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Dancing with a Mask
Overview: Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-10-28
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