Kei Suma
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: September 04, 1935
Deathday: December 07, 2013
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Gender: Male
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The Political Game
Overview: This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. Noritaka Sakamoto was in charge of photography, and Kentaro Haneda was in charge of music direction. It depicts how an honest candidate aiming for a clean election campaign gradually collapses in the face of various realities. Kiyokawa, the mayor of Higurashi City, died at his lover's house. Yoshihiko announces that he will conduct a clean election campaign, but his sponsors and backers are reluctant.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-05-03
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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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A School Behind Bars
Overview: "A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture - the only public school in Japan that is located inside a prison. The school's students are all prisoners ranging in age from 20-70. The students are carefully selected after taking an entrance exam and being selected by the school's admission board.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-11
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BU・SU
Overview: Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work in the geisha house run by her aunt. The daughter of a once great geisha, Mugiko is entitled by blood to train in the geishas ancient art of classical Japanese song and dance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-10-29
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Pickpocket
Overview: Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're observed by a middle-aged cop, who generally lets Kaido go free. Rei is unsettled when Kaido takes on a young street punk, Kazuki, as an apprentice -- with instructions to make Kaido stop drinking. Kazuki, however, would like to go into business with Rei.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-03
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The Rainbow Seeker
Overview: A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films to the residents of his small town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-28
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Basara: The Princess Goh
Overview: Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-11
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Freesia: Bullet Over Tears
Overview: In the near future of a Japan, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional executioners are permitted to kill criminals by the requests from their victims. People who are to be executed are notified of the execution time and date in advance and they are allowed to have their own guard.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-01
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Luminous Woman
Overview: A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-10-24
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Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
Overview: A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-11-26
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Summer of Ubume
Overview: Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has been pregnant for twenty months. Sekiguchi investigates further with the help of his friend Enokizu, a detective with the unusual ability to see people's memories. They are hired by the impossibly pregnant woman's sister to find the woman's missing husband and lay this whole matter to rest. In the end, they need the help of Kyogokudo to exorcise the family curse.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-15
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Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape
Overview: Karin has lived alone in a secluded mountain village with her consumptive mother since her father died. Her worried grandfather advises her to send her mother to a sanatorium and be adopted by him, although she refuses to accept. On the Buddhist All Soul’s Day Festival in August, a messenger from her grandfather pays a sudden visit to her house.
Genres: Mystery Family Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-11
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Dream Street
Overview: A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-08-05
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Investigation of a Typical Love
Overview: The screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of "Tragedy of W" and "Revolver". The man is a detective who doesn't take on anything other than background checks for marriage and looking for cats. One day, a request for a job that belongs to him comes in. It is from Masako, a married woman who suspects her husband of having an affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-21
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Overview: During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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Tora-san Goes North
Overview: When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-15
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
Overview: A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as “daddy”.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-26
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Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Overview: Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight when she replaces her in a film and gains instant fame and fortune. But the going is not always easy, and she soon seeks help from unexpected quarters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-02
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Overview: In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-24
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