Sachiko Chiba
Also Known As: Сатико Тиба
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: February 16, 1911
Age: 114 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 22, 1993
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Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn
Overview: Story of a bandit king part 2.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-02-20
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Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Overview: Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-08-15
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The Actress and the Poet
Overview: Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and his nosy and greedy wife. Enter a young and seemingly high-class couple who just so happens is open to purchasing life insurance from their swift neighbour. In the meantime, life is imitating art across the street, which may end up providing for either a happy ending or a rude split - eventually that is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-03-21
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Man of the House
Overview: This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played shamisen for his songs/recitations), his affair with a geisha (Sachiko Chiba), and the deterioration of his partnership and marriage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-06-01
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The Road I Travel with You
Overview: The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of society's disapproval of their illegitmacy and déclassé family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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Morning's Tree-Lined Street
Overview: As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolitan cityscape. After some fruitless job hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza, this is a neighborhood bar where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
Overview: Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts him deeply towards Kayo. On the other hand, Kayo prays for the happiness of her best friend and marries a very ordinary man. However, at one point, this mediocre but increasingly ferocious husband died in an accident ... A triangular love story develops depicting a woman's heart that sways between love and morals. Based on a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya, there were originally two parts to the film (If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again), both supposed to be 85 minutes, but apparently what we have now is this 103-minute amalgam of the two.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-04-01
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White Heron
Overview: OSHINO, the beautiful daughter of restaurant owners, is in love with SHIRASAGI the painter. But there is another young man, the son of a moneylender family, who is desperately in love with Oshino...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-09-09
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Shimizu Jirocho
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-09-17
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Blizzard Ronin
Overview: The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-01-11
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Tipsy Life
Overview: The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a company founded specifically to take advantage of emergent sound technology. P.C.L. worked in collaboration with a brewer’s firm, Dai Nihon Biru, who met the production costs of the film in full, and whose products are featured in the film in an example of the sophisticated and modern merchandising typical of the studio’s early work. The film is partially set in a beer hall, and its story concerns a beer seller at a train station and her relationship with a music student trying to create a hit song. Director Sotoji Kimura was to become a company stalwart, making such films as Ino and Mon, while actress Sachiko Chiba would emerge the studio’s first real star, appearing in such films as Wife Be Like a Rose.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-05-04
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Romantic and Crazy
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-05-03
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The Girl in the Rumor
Overview: A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but is running into financial trouble, causing him to tamper with his stock; Meanwhile, his long-time mistress yearns for something more serious. Amidst this, the older sister is introduced to a well-off suitor: A university boy, much more intrigued by the less traditional little sister. A doddering grandfather, an officious uncle and busybody neighbors also don't make the lives of the hardworking members of the family any easier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-12-22
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Green Earth
Overview: Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their families, for the company in order to construct a canal. There are young Chinese resisting the Japanese in this area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Iron Brothers
Overview: It's been a long time since the war. Since we haven't been at war with America yet, there is a line in the movie that asks, "How do you say "dried fish" in English?" Brothers who work at a factory that handles iron in Tokyo. After losing his parents, his older brother (Takada Minoru) sends his younger brother (Ito Kaoru) to night school, and the brothers help each other survive. The older brother wants his younger brother to study and attend a higher school (university?). A mysterious woman (Sachiko Chiba) moves into the apartment where the two live. The landlady of the apartment is busy gossiping about her and who she is.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-06-28
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I Am a Cat
Overview: 1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-04-14
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The Day Before
Overview: A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average man, who, in the face of the absurdity of violence, is reduced to apathy or victimhood.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-10-20
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Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf
Overview: Story of a bandit king.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-02-11
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Iemitsu and Hikoza
Overview: A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing somewhat against type).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-03-26
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A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-12-30
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My Nightingale
Overview: Sumida is separated from his wife and daughter when conflict erupts in Harbin. Years later, he finds that his wife passed away and her daughter was adopted by his friends at the Russian opera company.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-03-24
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Radio Queen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-08-11
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Okumura Ioka
Overview: Okumura Ioko story directed by Shiro Toyoda
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-06-25
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Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf
Overview: Story of a bandit king.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-02-11
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Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu
Overview: Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells him that she's pregnant, he begins to worry. His company hasn't paid his backsalary and he doesn't know how he will pay for the new baby. His friend Suihei tells him about a job at a bar, but on his way there, Tokunosuke meets a mysterious man who sells him a newspaper...for tomorrow!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-10-09
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A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
Overview: Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts him deeply towards Kayo. On the other hand, Kayo prays for the happiness of her best friend and marries a very ordinary man. However, at one point, this mediocre but increasingly ferocious husband died in an accident ... A triangular love story develops depicting a woman's heart that sways between love and morals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-05-01
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A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
Overview: Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts him deeply towards Kayo. On the other hand, Kayo prays for the happiness of her best friend and marries a very ordinary man. However, at one point, this mediocre but increasingly ferocious husband died in an accident ... A triangular love story develops depicting a woman's heart that sways between love and morals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-04-01
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