Satoko Date
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 11, 1910
Deathday: October 23, 1972
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 1)
Overview: The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-01-17
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The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 2)
Overview: The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-03-07
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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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新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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The Age of Beginnings
Overview: A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets into trouble ending up at the police station slammer overnight. He has no material to write about and, with his assignment unfulfilled, faces a cross editor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-07-15
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When We Came Back
Overview: Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-03
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Oogonju
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-11-04
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Sanshiro of Ginza
Overview: An early film by Kon Ichikawa
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-03-30
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Tokyo Rhapsody
Overview: Film adaptation of the hit song
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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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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Machi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-08-20
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Eternal Heart
Overview: Toshie, a young, conservative secretary-typist has fallen in love with Shozo Narita, a young man she has met through her work.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-04-29
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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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Wife of a Lily
Overview: This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was famous for her seven different voices for men and women of all ages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-03-06
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Kantaro of Ina
Overview: War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-01-03
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Chūshingura - Ninjō-hen; Fukushū-hen
Overview: Directed by Daisuke Itō.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-05-17
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Enoken's Donguri Tonbei
Overview: Enoken plays a frog-oil-hawking conman whose claims to martial prowess land him in hot water with the local samurai gentry - but not before he falls in love with exactly the wrong girl. Another musical comedy period film quick on the heels of the earlier Kondo Isami.
Genres: Music Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-01-31
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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 Monkey King
Overview: A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a mission to prevent a demonic resurrection. As Genjo Sanzo, Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojyo, and Son Goku (Kenichi Enomoto) fight their way to their goal, their path is fraught with internal strife.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-11-06
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Karisome no kuchibeni
Overview: A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-11-22
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Tange Sazen - Dai-ippen
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-01-02
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Walk Cheerfully
Overview: Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him "until he becomes an honest person." Kenji soon finds it's not easy to get rid of one's past.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-03-01
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The Lady and the Beard
Overview: Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-02-07
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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
Overview: When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-10-13
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The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
Overview: A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his new home, too.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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A Flower Blooms
Overview: Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-04-13
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Until the Day We Meet Again
Overview: A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-11-24
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A Mother's Love
Overview: A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-27
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大当りパチンコ娘
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-01-15
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Karayuki-san
Overview: "Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed-race son." - Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-03-11
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The Revengeful Spirit of Eros
Overview: A young couple jump into the sea as part of a suicide pact. The man is rescued and subsequently discovers that his lover is also alive and working in a dance hall. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-07-27
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Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter
Overview: The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its heroine, Yumie Sone. Over two hours long, Seven Seas was released theatrically in two parts, with the first part entitled "Virginity Chapter" coming out in December 1931, while the second part, "Chastity Chapter," followed in March 1932. Near the beginning of the narrative, at a garden party given by the wealthy Yagibashi family in Tokyo, Yumie meets Takehiko, the Yagibashis' playboy son and the brother of Yumie's fiancé, Yuzuru. Yumie, a young middle-class woman, lives with her ailing father, a retired ministry official, an older sister, and a younger sister still a child (played by a very young Hideko Takamine). Takehiko, who has just returned from a trip to Europe, is attracted to Yumie and contrives to have her stay overnight at his family's mansion where he takes advantage of her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-12-23
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Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter
Overview: Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous Sone family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-02-11
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Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Overview: Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-08-23
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Akatsuki no Kyūshū
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-12-14
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Reijin
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-04-26
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Under the Blossoming Peach
Overview: A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief happiness together, but eventually the time comes to say goodbye. The portrayal of the children and the atmosphere of the hot spring resort shine through in this film about a mother by master filmmaker Hiroshi Shimizu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-03-24
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Silver Stream
Overview: Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is now a union leader in opposition of her husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-02-14
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Hideko the Cheerleader
Overview: Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-01-31
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Sky of Hope
Overview: What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-01-14
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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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