Kinuko Wakamizu
Also Known As: Кинуко Вакамидзу
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: March 11, 1907
Age: 118 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 01, 1968
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Apart from You
Overview: An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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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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Moth-eaten Spring
Overview: Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-05-27
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Tôribêyama shinjû
Overview: The doomed love story between a young courtesan and a samurai, in Kyoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-12-26
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Introspection Tower
Overview: A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is often short on water, and one day, the well runs dry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-01-30
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Kurotegumi Sukeroku
Overview: Shinzaemon has been Sukeroku’s enemy ever since Sukeroku fought and defeated gangs from Shinzaemon’s group at a Kabuki theatre over Agemaki from Miuraya. Sukeroku swears that he will never draw his sword until he finds his family’s treasured blade, Tomokirimaru, so he gets insulted often by Shinzaemon’s men. Bunzaemon redeems Agemaki for Sukeroku ahead of Shinzaemon, but Sukeroku, ever the gentleman, does not accept. When Shinzaemon snatches Agemaki, it is found that he has Tomokirimaru.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-01-05
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The Boss's Son at College
Overview: The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufacturer, Fuji basks in the glory of his athletic celebrity. Attracting the attention of admiring young women, Fuji resists family pressure to settle down and marry after college. Instead, he spends much of his time drinking and womanizing, behavior which eventually leads the college officials to expel him from the team.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-10-31
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Okoto and Sasuke
Overview: A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Junichiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-06-15
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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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The Woman Who Holds the Key
Overview: Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenament called the Ryuheiso.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-08-15
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Yôma kitan
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 1929.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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Amakara chindōchū
Overview: Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides with his daughter, Haruko. By chance, he apprehends a criminal and reconnects with his former colleague, Sakamoto, leading him to become a security guard at a film studio. Haruko, secretly a singer, rises to stardom within the same studio. Unbeknownst to each other, they both work there. As the studio faces turmoil, their hidden identities are unveiled...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-11-11
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The Genealogy of Women
Overview: A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The Romance of Yushima.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-02-22
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Don't Tell Your Wife About It
Overview: A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive lace handkerchief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-05-20
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Great X
Overview: A 1948 Japanese film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-05-07
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Four Seasons of Children
Overview: The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their grandfather, which means making new friends and struggling with a different environment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-01-28
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Island Girl
Overview: Japanese silent film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-03-15
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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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Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter
Overview: Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous Sone family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-02-11
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Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter
Overview: The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its heroine, Yumie Sone. Over two hours long, Seven Seas was released theatrically in two parts, with the first part entitled "Virginity Chapter" coming out in December 1931, while the second part, "Chastity Chapter," followed in March 1932. Near the beginning of the narrative, at a garden party given by the wealthy Yagibashi family in Tokyo, Yumie meets Takehiko, the Yagibashis' playboy son and the brother of Yumie's fiancé, Yuzuru. Yumie, a young middle-class woman, lives with her ailing father, a retired ministry official, an older sister, and a younger sister still a child (played by a very young Hideko Takamine). Takehiko, who has just returned from a trip to Europe, is attracted to Yumie and contrives to have her stay overnight at his family's mansion where he takes advantage of her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-12-23
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Sinking the Unsinkable
Overview: Japanese Warmovie
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-03-23
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Sayon's Bell
Overview: Based on the true story of a 17-year old Atayal girl called Sayun Hayun from Nan'oku village, Giran district, Taihoku Prefecture (in current Taiwan) who went missing and was thought to have drowned whilst helping carry the luggage of her teacher Masaki Takita during a storm in 1938.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-07-01
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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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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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Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
Overview: Japanese war movie.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Donguri and Shinomi
Overview: A city boy moves to the countryside and the kids there pick on him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-05-29
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Flowers of Patriotism
Overview: A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-11-12
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Tengoku ni musubu koi
Overview: Based on the Sakatayama double suicide
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-06-10
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