Hiroko Machida
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: October 25, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Female
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情熱の詩人啄木
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-04
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Street of Shame
Overview: The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-18
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Aru yo no seppun
Overview: The romantic struggles of three close friends who came back from the war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-05-23
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The Hoodlum Soldier Deserts Again
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-03
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Seisaku's Wife
Overview: On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-25
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Hibari no komoriuta
Overview: Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Koji Shima. The movie is based on Das doppelte Lottchen, a novel later adapted as The Parent Trap.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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Sentimental Mobsters
Overview: A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-27
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The Homely Sister
Overview: In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka falls in love, but can’t accept a marriage proposal since her older sister needs to marry first. When Oshizu learns of this decision, she takes matters in her own hands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-28
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The Romance of Yushima
Overview: Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been unable to tell Sakai of the marriage, aware as he is that Sakai wants him to marry his daughter, Taeko. Otsuta wants Hayase to tell Sakai about her, but understands the difficulty of his position. At a festival, Otsuta is mistaken for a pickpocket and taken to the police. Because of her background as a geisha, newspaper reporters eagerly delve into her past and report that she has been married to Hayase. Unaware of what has been printed in the papers, Hayase decides to tell Sakai about his marriage. Sakai shows the newspaper to him and orders Hayase to part with Otsuta. Given no chance to explain, Hayase accepts Sakai's order.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-28
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The Demon of Sendai's Castle
Overview: Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four advisors from his entourage were assassinated, calling into question the possessions of the Date family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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The Cast-Off
Overview: The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-13
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The Red Water
Overview: Comedy drama film
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-05-03
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The Quiet Duel
Overview: A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-03-19
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Saigo no kikyō
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-07-26
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Love and Greed
Overview: Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's husband. As personal lives and professional careers intertwine and cross one another including a love triangle dangerously, the affair is taken up a notch following a murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-24
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The Little Runaway
Overview: During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues in Moscow.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-12-24
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Song of Happiness
Overview: Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-19
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When Women Lie
Overview: Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-30
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Okoto and Sasuke
Overview: One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-14
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The Blue Sky Maiden
Overview: Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-08
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The Rough One
Overview: A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the young hoods run afoul of their underworld idols when they rob the wrong gang, led by brutal boss Konno. When Zenkichi's pals start to bite the dust, he hooks up with a more traditional yakuza, Tetsugoro, to retaliate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-13
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Girls Born in August
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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One Day at Summer's End
Overview: A Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-30
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Superexpress
Overview: A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-31
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Dancing Girl
Overview: In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment and begins to stir things up with her riotousness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-12
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Submarine Number One
Overview: This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film then follows two of the pupils, one becomes a submarine captain and the other designs submarines.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-05-23
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Green Fruit
Overview: Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-22
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Giants and Toys
Overview: Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-22
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Black Test Car
Overview: Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-30
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Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
Overview: TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi in 1978 and released theatrically by Office Henmi in 1988.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-06-11
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Nomugi Pass
Overview: The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-30
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
Overview: A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers losing their land as a result of strict tax collection. The Tonegawa area of Boso was a lawless area for a generation, as two major forces fought against each other: Sukegoro of Iioka, who wields power with his industrial capital behind him, and Shigezo of Sasakawa, a rising yakuza. Furthermore, the successive floods of the Tone River, which could be called fate, forced the farmers into even more poverty and despair. Meanwhile, farmers in Nabe Village continue to live a lethargic life, but agricultural reform is about to begin under the hands of Yugaku Ohara, a ronin who has settled in the village.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-13
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The Wild Geese
Overview: A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-15
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
Overview: A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-02
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The Hopeful Family
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-05-13
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Children Seeking a Mother
Overview: While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-08
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A Mother's Journey
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-21
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The Lowest Man
Overview: A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kill him.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-07
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Confessions of a Gynecologist
Overview: A timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is acceptable...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-05-27
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Ripe and Marriageable
Overview: 1959 youth comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-17
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Nine Hours of Terror
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-20
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Mother
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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I'll Cry Alone
Overview: "Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to re-marry she insists he either wed or stop seeing her. Returning home, she again meets the man she first loved and for a time thinks of married happiness."
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-17
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Young Trees
Overview: A bright and cheerful story about a young girl who comes to Tokyo from the countryside, relying on her aunt to become a maid, and willingly aspires to become a maid and lives a healthy life despite the hardships she encounters with people from all walks of life. Ririko Tachibana moved to Tokyo in reliance on her aunt Motoko, who lives in Tokyo. When Ririko leaves her classmate Chizuko Misawa, who says she is going to rely on jazz singer Michi Nozoe, and arrives at her aunt's house, she is disappointed to find that a job has been arranged for her as a nanny. Her dream of attending night high school was dashed, but Ririko made up her mind to do her best to do as much as she could. The Honbashi family, where she was employed, lived alone with the widow Shinae, and Mrs Shinae was asked to go to her daughters' house to help out...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-14
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Sudachi no toki kyoiku wa shinazu
Overview: Here is a school that has never expelled a single student, believing in its children even after betrayal and betrayal after betrayal! Yoji (Yoichi Sase), the son of a doctor in Suwa, and Nobuko (Mayuki Kirihara), the daughter of a weaver in Kyoto, are transferred to the class of Omura (Chiemi Eri), a PE teacher at Shinonoi Asahi High School, a private school for troubled children. The school principal (Hiroyuki Nagato) says that the school's policy of "not letting anyone drop out of school" must be upheld, and Omura struggles to do everything in his power to respond. Based on a true story by Shigeta Wakabayashi, an education critic, the film depicts the relationship between a student abandoned by his parents and a teacher who sincerely deals with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-11-14
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The Snowy Heron
Overview: The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-29
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Jōen
Overview: 1959 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-17
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Ocean Floor Crime #1
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-05
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Wakai yatsura no kaidan
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-27
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Miai Ryokou
Overview: A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misunderstanding... Love and thrills in this coming-of-age romance film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-15
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