Kikuko Hanaoka
Also Known As: 花岡菊子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: September 11, 1910
Age: 114 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 12, 1984
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The Man Without a Nationality
Overview: Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-04-14
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Sanshiro of Ginza
Overview: An early film by Kon Ichikawa
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-03-30
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Hibari no san'yaku: Zoku Kei tsuya yuki no jôhenge
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-23
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Hibari no san'yaku: Kei tsuya yuki no jôhenge
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-17
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
Overview: This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-11
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No Blood Relation
Overview: An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-12-16
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Devil Princess’ Beauty Competition
Overview: An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a charming princess and a dashing youngster, performs songs and dances throughout the film until the big decisive battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-28
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Tsukiyo Karasu
Overview: The ambiguous relationship between a woman musician and her young student.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-03-15
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Hell Worms
Overview: A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-01
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
Overview: The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a happy end in the Wild West.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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Kantaro of Ina
Overview: War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-01-03
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Inugami-ke no nazo: Akuma wa odoru
Overview: Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-08-10
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The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
Overview: In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Ginza Cosmetics
Overview: A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-04-14
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The Dancing Girl of Izu
Overview: "The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eventually has to part with the family after spending memorable time together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-02-01
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Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo
Overview: Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-08-08
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Chutaro of Banba
Overview: Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This heartfelt story concerns a wandering gambler from Banba by the name of Chutaro. Set during the Tenpo Period, Chutaro runs afoul of Boss Sukegoro of Iioka. Pursued by vengeance seeking swordsmen, Chutaro displays his phenomenal martial art skills. Abandoned as a child, he seeks to find his long lost mother, while at the same time fighting off numerous attacks by Iioka’s men.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-29
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A Mother's Love
Overview: A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-27
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Love Letter
Overview: A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-13
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警察官出世パトロール
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-01
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娘十八びっくり天国
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-02-29
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女大学野球狂時代
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-26
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Geisha Waltz
Overview: 1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-02
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Daigaku no kengō: Keiraku no abarenbō
Overview: Japanese youth film about kendo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-06
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大当りパチンコ娘
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-01-15
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Yasen kangofu
Overview: Japanese war drama.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-07-14
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カックン超特急
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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Watashi wa uso wa mōshimasen
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-05
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Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
Overview: Japanese war film.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-13
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Kingorō no omawari-san
Overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-05
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Elegy of a Geisha
Overview: 1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Overview: Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous ghost stories throughout Japan.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-12
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金語楼の成金王
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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Tōkaidō yajikita chin dōchū
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-27
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Kaachan
Overview: Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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Rikidozan no tetsuwan kyojin
Overview: 1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-13
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Invitation to the Enchanted Town
Overview: Live-action adaptation of Ko Kojima's manga "Sennin buraku".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-08
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Five Violent Girls
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-27
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This Happy Life
Overview: A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-01-27
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Nonki saiban
Overview: A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-24
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First Love of Okon
Overview: A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-06
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The Ghost of Kasane
Overview: A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his wife by mistake and then goes to the swamp and drowns himself. 20 years later, the masseur's daughter unknowingly falls in love with the samurai's son who has been brought up to be a servant. After she is horribly disfigured in an accident, he plots to run away with another woman, but the path of their escape lies by the Kasane swamp...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-10
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浮かれ狐千本櫻
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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ABC Lifeline
Overview: Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-12-12
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００６は浮気の番号
Overview: Japanese sex comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-28
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Omokage no machi
Overview: A 1942 film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
Overview: When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-10-13
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Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Overview: Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-08-23
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Devil's Nursery Rhyme
Overview: 1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-15
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Reijin
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-04-26
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Passion
Overview: Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-02-04
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Under the Blossoming Peach
Overview: A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief happiness together, but eventually the time comes to say goodbye. The portrayal of the children and the atmosphere of the hot spring resort shine through in this film about a mother by master filmmaker Hiroshi Shimizu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-03-24
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Mole Alley
Overview: 33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writing Ogata's manuscript, he would buy dorayaki as a gratuity and devour it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-05-07
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The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate
Overview: Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. Pre-war jidaigeki film.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-07-14
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Lord for a Night
Overview: Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-07-11
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Girl's Reform School
Overview: The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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Morishige no demakase shinshi
Overview: Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-06
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Rikugun Daikoshin
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-05-06
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The Way of Drama
Overview: The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-05-11
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Deep River Melody
Overview: A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-13
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Guntō nanban-sen
Overview: 1950 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-13
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Banchō sarayashiki
Overview: short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-11-01
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Wakai hito-tachi
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-08
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Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed
Overview: In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighboring lord Anzai Kagesuren. As the castle nears collapse, Anzai demands a seed from Yoshimi’s lineage, specifically from his wife, Fushihime. Outraged but facing annihilation, Yoshimi gives Fushihime a string of eight ancestral beads and urges her to escape to loyal retainer Inuda Kobungo. Instead, she goes alone to Anzai, followed by her dog, Hachibo. In a twist, Hachibo attacks and kills Anzai, allowing Fushihime to escape. She later reveals that the beads protected her and predicts that eight warriors bearing these beads will someday defend the Satomi family before passing away. Yoshimi finds one of the beads in Inuzuka Nobuno’s armor and convinces her to serve him. Meanwhile, Baka Daiki, plotting to overthrow Satomi, imprisons Inukawa Shosuke, who tries to intervene, under the watch of vassal Aminen Saomojiro.
Genres: Horror History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-09
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Sekai no haha
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-11
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Kanashimi wa itsumo haha ni
Overview: The last film produced by Shintoho.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-02
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Ren'ai Zubari Kōza
Overview: A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-21
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Holiday in Japan
Overview: Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-15
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