Toshiko Yabuki
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: January 07, 1931
Deathday: October 12, 1990
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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A Woman's Life
Overview: A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-16
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The Abalone Gals
Overview: South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playland and the girls, who had been abalone divers, now become geisha, and the old ways of the island are all topsy-turvy. One of the girls, more sensitive than the rest, sees that here, too, people are motivated only by greed and decides to leave and try to find a better life elsewhere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-26
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If You Were Young: Rage
Overview: If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to try. Then one hits upon a plane - to work together to save for a dump truck and thus become independent contractors and be their own bosses at last. Ultimately life presents obstacles: jail for one, violence at the hands of the police for another and a girlfriend and subsequent children for the third. An early Kinji Fukasaku gem that imports the freewheeling style of the French New Wave and the hip detachment of American noir.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-27
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Only Child
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-06
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A Wanderer's Notebook
Overview: Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-29
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The Class of the Sewage Canal
Overview: The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-19
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Have You Seen the Barefoot God?
Overview: 2 almost inseparable friends. The talented painter recognized by all decided to leave the town where they live and become an artist and the shy poet who only sees his future in his mother's business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-26
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The River Fuefuki
Overview: In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-19
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Hunting Rifle
Overview: Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Yearning
Overview: War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-15
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Taro the Dragon Boy
Overview: Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a young boy who has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-17
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A Japanese Tragedy
Overview: At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-17
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