Sachiko Meguro
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: August 26, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 08, 2015
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Night Butterflies
Overview: A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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A Geisha on Horseback
Overview: Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the early Taisho era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-15
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Thousand Cranes
Overview: The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-19
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Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda
Overview: The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit melody of Ueki etc. [Selection of Actors and Directors].
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-12
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Yume de aritai
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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スーダラ節 わかっちゃいるけどやめられねぇ
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-25
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B.G. monogatari: Ekinyūmon
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-29
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Innocent Sinner
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch
Overview: Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's all about to change when her real father mysteriously comes to get her and finally bring her home.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-14
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Black Lizard
Overview: The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-14
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Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Overview: Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-29
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Woman Gambling Expert: Stakes of a Game of Chance
Overview: 16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-21
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Order of Yakuza
Overview: Order of Yakuza
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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High School Geisha
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-09-21
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Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-30
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Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-11
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Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy 2
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-26
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Three O'clock in the Morning in a Big City
Overview: To avenge the death of his brother, a student shooting champion infiltrates the criminal world. An entertaining action drama and an interesting love story.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-22
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The Diary of a Sex Counsellor 2
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-30
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The Diary of a Sex Counsellor
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-10
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The Betrothed
Overview: Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-05-28
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The Precipice
Overview: Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-17
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のど自慢三羽烏
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-16
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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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Charisma
Overview: A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering a peculiar tree called Charisma.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-10
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Danchi fujin
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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Brother and Sister
Overview: The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-19
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Closing Time
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-18
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The Sex Check
Overview: Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a gigolo until a chance meeting with a fiery young athlete named Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda). Realizing that she has talent as a sprinter, Miyagi sees a second chance at Olympic glory in becoming her coach. Following Miyagi’s unconventional, military-style training, Hiroko sets a record for the 100-meter dash, but her greatest hurdle proves to be a “sex check” which all professional athletes must pass.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-01
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Beauty the Enemy
Overview: In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-12
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8 ½ Women
Overview: Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-22
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The Golden Demon
Overview: Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a wealthy banker's son. In bitter despair, Kan-ichi breaks with his friends, drops his studies, and declares he has ceased to be human. He apprentices to a money-lender, and he's soon ruthless and wealthy. Several years later, Miya's in misery, her husband mistreats her. She goes to Kan-ichi to beg forgiveness; he pushes her away. He's now pursued by Akagashi, herself a cold-hearted loan shark. Can anything free Kan-ichi's hard heart from the golden demon
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-21
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Green Sex
Overview: A film about two boys and two girls, and how they each come to sex, each in his or her own way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-09-07
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The All-Out Game
Overview: When Daisaku Hotta (Kosaburo Onogawa), the cheer leader of Tonan High School, hears that Rikiya Kudo (Saburo Shindo), the captain of the Judo team and Shiro Usami (Kei Wakakura) of the boxing team are about to fight, he breaks it up that are apt to erupt so suddenly on campus. Rikiya is an honor student, recommended to the Toa University by his school and is almost certain of being accepted next spring. Shiro is long on brute strength but short on brains. Naturally, they waste little love on each other, so there is very little ground for any understanding between them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-12
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Lily Festival
Overview: Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to live in an apartment building that also houses seven elderly women. The film examines the ladies' sexual desires as the man proceeds to woo each of them. Kazuko Yoshiyuki portrays one of the female residents. The film was adapted from a novel by Houko Momotani and was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-26
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A Geisha's Diary
Overview: A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-28
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Art of Assassination
Overview: A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking the life of a wealthy businessman...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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The Sea Anemone
Overview: The story of a sexy girl with a passion for attracting men and counting the money she entices from them with her body.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-30
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The Black Trademark
Overview: Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-07
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Child Bride
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-11-12
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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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Warning from Space
Overview: Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien takes the form of a popular singer.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-27
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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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Warm Current
Overview: The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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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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Woman Gambling Expert: Odd/Even Gambling Trip
Overview: 14th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-09
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Love and Life
Overview: Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-27
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A Man Worth the Money
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-26
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That Complicated Guy
Overview: Melodrama based on a novel by Yukio Mishima.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-22
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Invitation to Jail
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-02
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New Couple's Guide: The Young Wife is Popular
Overview: A coming-of-age story that depicts the crisis of love in marital life in a light-hearted way, centering on the family of a young scholar whose young wife is a female doctor who has made a name for herself in sex medicine.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-08
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Morning Whistling
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-13
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Ah Special Attack Corps
Overview: Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-10
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The Women Divers
Overview: A youth movie depicting the love between college students.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-12
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The Frolic of the Beasts
Overview: The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though her husband is cheated with her heart. Koji Umeya, who was working part-time at a shop, was able to see the unparallel rag, and brought her to the cheerful site. Furthermore, Kenji will cause serious injury to the spot. Koji who came to the end of her uniform and started her bizarre living in Izu villa home.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-06-11
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While Yet a Wife
Overview: A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is tormented by the fact that she is ruining her husband's future, and decides to divorce him as the only thing she can do for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-02
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わが愛を星に祈りて
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-26
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Kokoro no nichigetsu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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Kill Before Being Killed
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-15
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