Yoshie Nakagawa
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: February 10, 1886
Age: 139 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 07, 1953
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A Page of Madness
Overview: A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1926-09-24
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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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Benten kozo
Overview: First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-01-04
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The Cuckoo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1922-03-09
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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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Crossroads
Overview: After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, Rikiya goes back home to his sister. Okiku, desperate to protect her brother who thinks himself a murderer, wants to sacrifice herself for him and become a prostitute to pay for Rikiya's treatment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-05-11
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Nogitsune Sanji
Overview: A 1930 silent film from director Eichi Koishi, following the adventures of Edo firefighter Sanji.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-01-05
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Undersea Girls
Overview: A semidocumentary film about female pearl divers and fishermen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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Backward Flow
Overview: Nanjo Mikisaburo is a young samurai trying to restore his ruined family to its past glory. Enduring the contempt and disdain of high-ranking samurai, Mikisaburo devotes himself to the way of the warrior, mastering the literary and martial arts. His master Kurahashi Jupeita's daughter Misao feels for Mikisahuro who maintains his pride in the face of the arrogant samurai's scorn. She sympathizes with and encourages him. However this sympathy ignites a passionate love for her in Mikisaburo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1924-09-26
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Castle of Wind and Clouds
Overview: A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the prince's concubines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-02-10
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The Lamb
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1923-02-01
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
Overview: This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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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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With a Single Sword Bale
Overview: Period film from 1934.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-07-14
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