Masako Tsutsumi
Also Known As: 堤眞佐子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: August 10, 1917
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 04, 1976
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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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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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Yoki na onna
Overview: 1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-02-14
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Subterranean Heat
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-02-01
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Paradise of the Virgin Flowers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-06-11
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The Abe Clan
Overview: “19 vassals of Lord Hosokawa ask permission to commit harakiri with him, as a demonstration of their loyalty. Only Yaichiemon Abe is refused permission, forced instead into the vassalage of his lord’s successor. Humiliated and derided, Yaichiemon eventually commits harakiri without permission. His eldest son is then punished for Yaichiemon’s suicide, and when he resists, is sentenced to death. The entire Abe clan rebels upon the son’s execution, and the clan is annihilated.” --Alan Poul, Japan Society
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-03-01
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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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Five Men in a Circus
Overview: The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the two daughters of the aging and irascible ringmaster-circus owner. The high points are the sound (and score) and cinematography featuring a lot of vertiginous panning (appropriate - as high wire trapeze artists are also an important element in the film). A fascinating side-light on 30s Japan.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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Nightingale
Overview: An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-11-09
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Kodakara fūfu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-02-26
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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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Ichiyo Higuchi
Overview: Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-05-31
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The Giant
Overview: Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be found by a monk. The criminal decides to turn a new leaf based on their conversation and goes on to become a town's mayor. He hears news of a mistaken arrest and identity. The revelation of truth is the start of a series of miseries.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-02-02
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Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô
Overview: Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-01-05
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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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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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A Woman's Sorrows
Overview: Japanese domestic drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-01-21
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Drifting
Overview: Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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Enoken's The Magician
Overview: Enoken plays a magician real powers come from his magical hat. A jealous theater owner sends girls, then goons, to keep Enoken from performing his grand show!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-10-25
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Akireta renchû
Overview: The first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a background story to do their popular manzai-routines on film. Here, Entatsu and Achako start out as rivals for the affection of a young woman but ultimately pair up to face a bigger rival. Entatsu chooses to become a boxer to get his chance at punching the rival out of the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-01-11
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Mother of the Red Hands
Overview: The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone in a fishermen's village. She is a strong-minded girl and very popular among young children. I guess that this story is one of the origins of girl's manga in the 1950s in which I belonged to the first generation of Japanese story manga.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-09-03
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Hikoroku Laughs a lot
Overview: Hikoroku Laughs a lot
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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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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A Dangerous Hero
Overview: A film by Hideo Suzuki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-30
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Roppa no Hōjiro Sensei
Overview: Original work by Hyakken Uchida.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-03-20
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Elephant from "Zoo Story"
Overview: The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of "Zoo Story" by author Fukuda Saburo. During the Tokyo air raids of World War II, Zen-san, an elephant keeper at Ueno Zoo, is faced with the heartbreaking task of euthanizing Tonki, a beloved elephant, due to food shortages and wartime pressures. Unable to carry out the order, Zen-san secretly feeds Tonki, but the elephant is ultimately shot by the military police. The film poignantly captures Zen-san’s despair and the devastation of war, as he reflects on his powerlessness amid the chaos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-09
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