Sanemon Suzuki
Also Known As: 鈴木左衛門, Daisuke Suzuki, 鈴木大介, 川越一平, Ippei Kawagoe, San'emon Suzuki, 鈴木三右ヱ門
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: March 25, 1903
Age: 122 years old
Gender: Male
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Town of Love
Overview: Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobody's Girl".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-08-31
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A Living Puppet
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-04-19
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The Naked Town
Overview: A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-05-13
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The Lady of Musashino
Overview: Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become close, but decide not to consummate their affair. He instead becomes involved with the flirtatious Tomiko, who is also conducting an affair with Michiko's husband. When Michiko finds that her husband has abandoned her, she decides to take her fate into her own hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-09-14
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Seishun wo warera ni
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-28
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A Slope in the Sun
Overview: The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji comes to light.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-15
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Age of Nudity
Overview: The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal big bucks from the Yakuza.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-07
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The Rambling Guitarist
Overview: Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of a sinister gunman, Taki's mysterious past catches up with him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-11
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The Eagle of the Pacific
Overview: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-21
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Earth
Overview: Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-04-13
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Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-05
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情艶一代女
Overview: Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins training with the Onnagata Kikugoro VI as a dancer. She leaves her geisha life to pursue this new path, but falls in love with a naval officer who is the younger brother of Kikugoro and who saves her from a stalker monk. Kikugoro hears of this and becomes enraged. The naval officer dies in the Second Sino-Japanese War, causing the lead to go back home to her mother where she meets, and falls in love with, a poet who resembles her now-deceased fiancé. This poet leaves her in order to force her to dedicate her entire life to dancing, which he sees as her true pursuit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-03
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Shashō monogatari tabi wa michidzure
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-19
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The Crown of Life
Overview: Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money. They are polar opposites. When a boat sails out looking for crab and does not return one day the brothers begin to argue over how to run their facility. They had just received a large order from a foreign country and had obtained a loan from a lender that needed to be repaid.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-06-04
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Theater of Life: Youth Version
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-02-13
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Pure Emotions of the Sea
Overview: A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-28
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Wind of Volcano
Overview: An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the remains of the pilot can be found.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-28
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Sôbô
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-02-18
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Unending Advance
Overview: One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian problems of a middle-aged salaryman and his family segues into an idyllic dream of an implausible future. The surviving print, although incomplete, offers an essential glimpse into Uchida’s prewar period, when he was associated more with realist dramas than with the period films that dominated his work after the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-11-03
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おヤエの家つき女中
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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Joshiryōsai
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-06
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The Flame of Devotion
Overview: The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of war.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-22
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おヤエのママさん女中
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-10
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