Yumi Takano
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Yumi Takano (高野由美) was a Japanese actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 23, 1918
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Jungle Block
Overview: A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-15
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君恋し
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-03
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何もかも狂ってやがる
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-18
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Break Down that Wall
Overview: A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-23
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Seishun no Sabaki
Overview: University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family at school. One day, his father, Tatsuzo, becomes the guardian of the Yamanaka-gumi.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-14
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Who's The Real Killer
Overview: Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-03
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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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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
Overview: "Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor Yūjirō Ishihara.
Genres: Crime Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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Saigo no sentō-ki
Overview: The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end of the Pacific War, with thrill and speed
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-31
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Song of a Traveller
Overview: A crime film released in 1962
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-20
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The Night is mine
Overview: Four criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape. However, one of them receives a bullet during a skirmish between bandits, and the second is wounded by the police. To help their wounded comrades, criminals lock themselves in a city clinic...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-13
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I Will Challenge
Overview: Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during training, he becomes embroiled in a murder case. His school friend is involved in the case, and Akira also becomes the target of villains...
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-08
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限りなき情熱
Overview: Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry abounds, a tale of love and chivalry blossoms into a beautiful flower of emotion.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-06-01
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This Day's Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-06-26
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Tatsumaki kozō
Overview: Tommy, a tornado boy who arrived at Arima Onsen in search of his father, whom he separated from when he was young, meets a girl named Eiko after driving away a group of thugs causing trouble at a variety show venue. Additionally, a drifter named Nanajo, impressed by Tommy's skills, approaches him with a story about a smuggling ship sinking off the coast of Kobe...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-11
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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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The Balloon
Overview: Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami’s daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throws the family into turmoil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-19
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Love Letter
Overview: A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-13
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Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-11-04
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Skinny and Fatty
Overview: Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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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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The Ditch
Overview: Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-27
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The Wolves
Overview: A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-03
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Ai to shi no katami
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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Dawn of a Canvas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-01
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Four Young Sisters
Overview: Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she loved because he, just like her father is always away from home. But directly after her marriage to another young man, her sister runs after the former boy-friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-01
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Farewell to Southern Tosa
Overview: Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-02
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Hungry Soul
Overview: Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-31
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Ningen Gari
Overview: A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-23
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Wait for Tomorrow
Overview: Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company which offers him an assignment to "Cover Tokyo" with a camera. But he is disillusioned when he is told he must work together with Miharu, a good looking girl in the film company's publicity department. Then the fun begins.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-26
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The Perfect Game
Overview: College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even more serious crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-11
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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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Hungry Soul, Part II
Overview: A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-28
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Children of Izu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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That Guy and I
Overview: Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-10
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Actress
Overview: Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marriage and the breakup of his Arts Society. This is another version of Kenji Mizoguchi's film "The Love of Sumako the Actress" ("Joyû Sumako no koi"), from the same year. Both tells the story of the famous actress Sumako Mitsui (1886-1919), considered the first great modern theater actress in Japan. Mizoguchi himself is said to have preferred Kinugasa's version.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-12-29
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Wind and waves of the South
Overview: Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth of mother's hands. It seemed that joy settled in their house again. But one day a storm caught the fishermen at sea. Father did not return... Father's friends, fishermen, tried to help the widow, who was left with two children. But the money was still not enough. And then Kazuo decided to become a fisherman. After all, he was now the eldest in the family...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-19
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Gyakukōsen
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-14
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The Stream of Youth
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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Umi wa kurutte iru
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-09
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Modern People
Overview: A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subordinate skillfully conceals the corruption and joins the corrupt, shady relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-09-03
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Muhō Ichidai
Overview: The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-20
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群集の中の太陽
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu
Overview: 1965 Nikkatsu youth film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-15
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Jinsei Gekijo
Overview: 1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-23
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Umi no jōji ni kakero
Overview: 1960 action film.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-17
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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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