Miiko Taka
Also Known As: Miiko Shikata
Biography: Miiko Taka (July 24, 1925 - January 4, 2023) was an American actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 24, 1925
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 04, 2023
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Sayonara
Overview: Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-25
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Walk Don't Run
Overview: During the housing shortage of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-29
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The Power
Overview: One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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Paper Tiger
Overview: A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-05
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The Art of Love
Overview: Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-30
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A Global Affair
Overview: Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arnold's 1964 comedy also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Sterling, John McGiver and Lilo Pulver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-30
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Cry for Happy
Overview: Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-03
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Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders
Overview: China, 7th century. On their way to a provincial center Judge Dee and his three wives spend the night at a Taoist monastery. Soon the judge discovers that the secluded place holds a secret - the former abbot died of unnatural causes. After a number of mysterious events and more cases of murder Dee tracks down the true villain.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-29
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Operation Bottleneck
Overview: WWII Burma...Six paratroopers undertake an extremely dangerous mission against the Japanese. It will ultimately cost them their lives, except for one "lucky" survivor.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-07
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Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
Overview: A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a veterinarian's office, and working with all the animals begins to affect his outlook on life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-12
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The Challenge
Overview: Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman. At the behest of the businessman, Rick undertakes samurai training from the other brother, but joins his cause. He also becomes romantically involved with the samurai's daughter.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-23
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A Family Upside Down
Overview: An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-08
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The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Overview: A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-27
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Lost Horizon
Overview: While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-14
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The Big Fix
Overview: Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-06
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