Kaoru Itō
Also Known As: 伊藤薫
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: July 29, 1922
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
Overview: Part one of two.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-01-18
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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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Learn from Experience, Part One
Overview: Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of Mizoguchi’s "Water Magician), a rich young woman in love with Shintaro (Minoru TAKADA), a rich young man. Unfortunately, Shintaro’s father is in the process of arranging a marriage for him with Yurie (Chieko TAKEHISA), the scion of an even wealthier family. In order to avoid this, the two young lovers flee to Tokyo to live together. When Shintaro comes back to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father browbeats him into attending the long-arranged marriage meeting with Yurie. While Shintaro is back home, Toyomi goes on a vacation trip with her closest chum, Michiko (Yumeko AIZOME). At a class reunion, Toyomi is to distressed (at not having heard from Shintaro for so long), she doesn’t go out on the town with her classmates. Michiko, however, runs into Shintaro and Yurie (also out on the town), and pulling him aside, demands an explanation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Learn from Experience, Part Two
Overview: Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adversity by Michiko -- and gets considerable moral support from not only her own mother but also from Shintaro's mother and siblings. Even more surprisingly, Yurie strikes up a friendship of sorts with her. When Yurie learns that the child is Shintaro's, she convinces Toyomi that it would be best to let Shintaro (and her) raise Kiyoko, so Toyomi can get on with making a proper life for herself. Tearfully, Toyomi agrees. Sometime later, Michiko goes to visit Toyomi -- and sees her at work, as a kindergarten teacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-12-18
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Keshô yuki
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-02-14
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Kodakara fūfu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-02-26
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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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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Overview: Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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The Whole Family Works
Overview: Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and contribute to the family expenses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-03-11
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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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Mother Never Dies
Overview: The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-09-24
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The Burning Sky
Overview: The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of newly-recruited pilots and their daily life, then their subsequent fighting experiences in China. Army supported the production, providing all the authentic airplanes, training and actual actions. They even provided the older biplanes disguised as Chinese fighter planes. Obinata plays the trainer-turned-combat-leader, who is passionate and cool at the same time. All his boys love him, of course. The film is not as intense, full of sugar-coated camaraderie, until young pilots are killed in action one by one. Last twenty minutes are fairly grim, as the message of self-sacrifice is heard loud and clear.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
Overview: Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-12-03
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Enoken's Kondo Isami
Overview: Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Meiji Restoration.
Genres: Music Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-10-11
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Schoolgirl Records
Overview: A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-08-27
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A Woman's Sorrows
Overview: Japanese domestic drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-01-21
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Oath on the Burning Sands
Overview: A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woman (Ri) aside if he is to succeed at building a highway through the "bandit"- (aka anti-Japanese militia-) infested hinterlands.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-12-25
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Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
Overview: Part two of two.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-01-18
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Radio Queen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-08-11
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