Fukuko Sayo
Also Known As: Фукуко Саё
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: March 05, 1909
Deathday: December 29, 1989
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Forbidden Lips
Overview: A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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Girl in the Glass
Overview: The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits roll in and we find out what lead her character to this end.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-09
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Man Who Causes a Storm
Overview: Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graphic portrayal of love, betrayal and success, Shoichi brews up a storm with a 'rat-a-tat-tat' on the drums.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
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Inugami-ke no nazo: Akuma wa odoru
Overview: Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-08-10
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Black Weapon
Overview: Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-06-20
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Mune yori mune ni
Overview: Japanese drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-12-06
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Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-11-03
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Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-11-14
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Akitsu Hot Springs
Overview: Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-15
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Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
Overview: A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and sorrows she experiences there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-19
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Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo
Overview: Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-08-08
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How Sorrowful
Overview: The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-09-07
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The Ghost of Iwojima
Overview: The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo Jima" asking the people who were close to him about his character and the painful memories off all those involved.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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Before Dawn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-13
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Once a Rainy Day
Overview: Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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Children of Hiroshima
Overview: Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-06
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I Saw a Phantom Fish
Overview: A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-05-06
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Bad Girl
Overview: Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights at a rundown bar, sharing drinks and cigarettes with the lowlife drunks. She has nowhere to turn and no one to talk to, until she is reunited with her childhood friend, Saburo, who brings warmth to her heart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-16
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Eien no 1/2
Overview: An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza. - Wikipedia
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-11-21
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Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-12
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Love is Lost
Overview: Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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The Virgin Witness
Overview: A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of discipline, she ends up falling in love with the nun who is in charge of her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-29
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Till We Meet Again
Overview: Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-29
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Distant Love
Overview: A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-27
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Autumn Interlude
Overview: The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to marry a stranger by her parent. She ran away from her hometown and arrived at Tokyo in search of her love one. War erupted then and Tatsurou was summoned to service. As be set foot on a snow-capped mountain before his imminent departure, they promised to each other to press on until they meet again. But, soon she was fallen very ill to TB
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-07-31
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Miniature
Overview: Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Tales of Ginza
Overview: In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who painted her own portrait fifteen years prior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-14
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Gate of Flesh
Overview: A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money — falling in love is forbidden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-08-10
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The Snowy Heron
Overview: The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-29
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Tora-san's Lovesick
Overview: After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-10
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Adolescence
Overview: Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-28
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Otona to kodomo no ainoko dai
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-15
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Forever, My Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-05
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Oyuki
Overview: A movie-loving nanny lives and works in the home of a university professor and eventually becomes the family's support system, leading a bright and joyful life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-04
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Ishigassen
Overview: Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a stone battle took place. Takemaru, the only son of the priesthood of Tada Shrine, was weak and was always forced to carry stones. However, neither swimming nor stone-throwing was a secret to his sick mother, Kouko... Seishi Matsumaru, Ryuichi Yoshida, and Ado Matsuyama were adapted from "Tenmangu" and "Ishigassen", directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi of "Waran Hayashi", and photographed by Hanjiro Nakazawa of "The Last Women".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-12-13
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Adventure With Him
Overview: Mitsuo Hayama, who is preparing for his entrance examinations, secretly plans to take a trip with his classmate Akira, alone and undisturbed. Noriko learns of the trip by chance and tells Mitsuo and his friends that she will join them, and they reluctantly agree. However, on the day of the trip, Akira suddenly decides not to join. Mitsuo and Noriko, a man and a woman, begin their journey together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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