Chiyoko Shimizu
Also Known As: 清水千代子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Female
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Morning Fog
Overview: Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a prefectural hospital. The film depicts the daughter's attempt to grow from adolescence to adulthood in a family of one mother and one daughter, and her emotional exchange with her mother against the backdrop of the harsh natural environment.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-18
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Overview: Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-14
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Forbidden Lips
Overview: A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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Joshiryōsai
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-06
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Red Sword Sheath: Code Of Honour: Recieving Orders
Overview: Japanese crime film
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Who is in the Background?
Overview: Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which Asahi Kobayashi plays an active role in the death of a divine ghost in a skillful disguise. Takuya Nikaido appears in Kobe and approaches the mystery of the fake bill case.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-06
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Intimidation
Overview: Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-23
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The Rambling Guitarist
Overview: Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of a sinister gunman, Taki's mysterious past catches up with him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-11
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The Rambling Guitarist
Overview: Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of a sinister gunman, Taki's mysterious past catches up with him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-11
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The Warped Ones
Overview: A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-03
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The Gambling Monk
Overview: One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-13
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Hungry Soul
Overview: Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-31
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I Am Waiting
Overview: A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-22
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Tower of Lilies
Overview: A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-09
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Shōjo
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
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Shiroi natsu
Overview: Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while trembling!! Set in a simple rural town's post office, this youthfully bright and humorous story depicts the intricacies of life experienced by a rookie young postal worker. Depicting the subtle intricacies of life experienced by a young protagonist in a simple post office setting. This bright and humorous story evokes a heartfelt sense of empathy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-23
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Gazing at Love and Death
Overview: A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save her life was to sacrifice an eye and part of her face. The operation seems a success. Later, however, her other eye becomes affected. She feels she must let the boy go, and yet she depends so much upon his devotion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-19
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Wakai toppū
Overview: On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her and they head towards Yokohama in Yoshiko's car. In Yokohama, there is an uproar because Kenji's father, Shozo Hase, a customs officer, has been accused of stealing confiscated drugs. The story unfolds with thrilling action as Kenji bravely confronts the gang of villains who framed his father and kidnapped him, all while seeking justice and vindicating his father's innocence.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-20
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Flowering Maidens
Overview: The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the same generation. Youth masterpiece created based on the hit Kazuo Funaki.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-24
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