Fumiko Murata
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: November 28, 1907
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Female
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Red Love, Green Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-17
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Innocent Sinner
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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Love for Eternity
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-05
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与太郎戦記 女は幾万ありとても
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-18
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A Wife Confesses
Overview: Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-29
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When Women Lie
Overview: Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-30
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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: Pregnancy 2
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-26
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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 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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Manji
Overview: The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-25
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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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A Night to Remember
Overview: Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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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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Eriko
Overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-25
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Play It Cool
Overview: This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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Two Wives
Overview: After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven couples tautens right up to the nearly unbearable tension of the climax...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-15
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Overview: Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-05
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Kisses
Overview: Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at the beach.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-23
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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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A Woman's Testament
Overview: The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-14
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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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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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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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The Great White Tower
Overview: The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-15
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Hoodlum Soldier
Overview: A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.
Genres: Action War Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-18
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Gamera, the Giant Monster
Overview: A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-27
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On This Earth
Overview: Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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Black Dead Ball
Overview: A talent scout who had his eyes set on a star left-handed pitcher in the high school baseball world falls to his death at his hotel. Was it a homicide or suicide? His junior colleague pursues the mystery of his death.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-08
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The False Student
Overview: A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-08
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Black Report
Overview: After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-13
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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 Woman's Life
Overview: One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-18
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Love River
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-22
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The Women Divers
Overview: A youth movie depicting the love between college students.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-12
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Shin Jinsei Gekijo
Overview: 1961 Theater of Life adaptation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-31
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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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Gomen asobase Hanamuko sensei
Overview: 1958 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-22
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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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