Kayako Sono
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: October 07, 1929
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 27, 2010
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The Pornographers
Overview: Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-12
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The Blossom and the Sword
Overview: Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-11-17
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Oar
Overview: Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-15
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Ai no uzu shio
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-22
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A Class to Remember
Overview: A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-06
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For Kayako
Overview: A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-11-10
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正義だ！味方だ！全員集合！！
Overview: Chotaro and Nakanishi, a duo of unemployed advertisers, drifted to Isehama, a port town near Yokohama, but a gang was making its presence felt in the town and the shopkeepers in the shopping arcade were troubled by it. Chotaro poses as a journalist and uses his words of wisdom to suggest that pen is mightier than the sword, so they create a mini-comic magazine and launch a campaign to expel the gang.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-12-27
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Oh, My Comrade!
Overview: Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One day Fukuzo guides Harumi, an old woman, to the Yasukuni Shrine where the souls of fallen soldiers are enshrined. Finding she has no place to go, Fukuzo carries her to his shack by the sea.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-19
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
Overview: Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds her other classmates working. This lounge bar is run by Junko Miyazono.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-22
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Mr. Lady Cinderella at Dawn
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-10
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Dodes'ka-den
Overview: This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-31
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大安旅行
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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The Pretty Jade
Overview: Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-17
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The Ghostly Trip
Overview: The 10th film in the travel series. The original work and screenplay is by Kazuo Funahashi, the director is Shoji Segawa, and the cinematography is by Keiji Maruyama.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-06
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The Wild Trucker
Overview: The comical adventures of two long-distance truck drivers, Momojiro and Kinzo, continue. Momojiro and Eizo help bring home the father of two young children in time to celebrate New Year’s together.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-12-27
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The New Class of the Sewage Canal
Overview: First film produced by Nikkatsu Children's Films.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-03-13
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Onna no Katei
Overview: The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-04-10
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How to Make a Big Hit
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-05
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Downtown Blues
Overview: The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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Delinquent Boss: Smooth Talking, Good Fighting
Overview: This is the Twelfth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-18
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Hooligans on Buggies
Overview: Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-29
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King of the Widow-Killers
Overview: The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by fighting with women. However, when he returned to his hometown in Kyushu for his father's memorial service, his gambling partner Masa not only confiscated Hiroshi's store and bankbook, but was also saddled with debts in Hiroshi's name. Although Hiroshi was angry, he made a decision and decided to start over using his body. Starting with a female designer, he battles an antique art dealer, Master Nagauta, a female doctor, and many others, and finally battles a rich man's widow.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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Travel with Ghost
Overview: Ghost comedy film.
Genres: Music Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-01
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Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
Overview: Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-18
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The Great Killing
Overview: A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-06-03
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Follow the Girls
Overview: Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-19
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New Year Trip
Overview: A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-03
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Oh, My Comrade!
Overview: Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One day Fukuzo guides Harumi, an old woman, to the Yasukuni Shrine where the souls of fallen soldiers are enshrined. Finding she has no place to go, Fukuzo carries her to his shack by the sea.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-19
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
Overview: The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on the path to fame and fortune. One of the smartest and strongest of all the gang bosses, he went on to survive the end of the samurai era and become a successful businessman. But first, he must survive against all odds in order to build his reputation and develop his strength. Powerful portrayals of the group are led by the great Tsuruta Koji with help from the likes of Matsukata Hiroki.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-19
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Overview: Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-01
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Foster Daddy, Tora!
Overview: After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-12-27
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Showdown of Men 2
Overview: Part two.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-10
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Baian the Assassin
Overview: Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, his nighttime persona is that of a highly skilled assassin. For money, he eliminates those whose existence is considered harmful, quietly disposing of them. One night, Baian is mistaken for another doctor by the young swordsman Kosugi Jūgorō and is attacked. He manages to avoid harm, but the doctor Kosugi originally intended to target is connected to the assassination target assigned by Baian’s boss, Hanzaemon Otowa. Baian and his companion Hikojiro begin investigating their target, Chōbei Izuyaya, the owner of a candle shop...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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Hanayagi Genshu Gokuchūki II
Overview: Hanayagi Genshu, who spent a winter in Tochihara Women's Prison due to an injury to the Hanayagi style Iemoto, is allowed to be paroleed. In Asakusa, she reunited with her prison companion, Sayoko Nakano. Genshu, Sayoko, and Setsuko Kanno gather at a yakitori restaurant to reminisce about their prison days. This is the second drama of her prison record that was broadcast in 1984 and caused a sensation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-01
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Fools at Work
Overview: A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-19
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Comedy actors: Cooper and Gable
Overview: This film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue, which tells the story of a comedian who teams up with a strange man he meets while traveling, and the two become very popular in Asakusa while performing their unusual acts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-21
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The Protector
Overview: Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her father falls ill. Under a great deal of pressure to continue the five generation long run of the business, Mine is put to the ultimate test when a former gangster sets his sights on closing her down.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-13
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Kaiun ryokō
Overview: 1971 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-03-03
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The Preacher of Love
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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喜劇・大安旅行
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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