Joe Ohara
Also Known As: ジョー・オハラ
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: December 10, 1903
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Male
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Night Butterflies
Overview: A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Back Stairways
Overview: A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. Actually, it is anything but harmless. Both the customer and his sister are involved in a jewel robbery in which they have double-crossed two of their accomplices who are now out of prison and thirsting for revenge.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-06
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Princess and I
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-29
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The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
Overview: Propaganda film, presumed lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-09-29
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The Straits of Love and Hate
Overview: A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-06-17
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Sutekina 16-sai
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-08
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Nenneko Shain
Overview: A handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the high-maintenance female manager suddenly panic, and the whole company is in an uproar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-25
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Eriko
Overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-25
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The Woman Champion
Overview: Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-01
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Two Enemy Women Gamblers
Overview: Twelfth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-08
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Capricious Young Man
Overview: An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offered a job with the lord who organized the competition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-05-30
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Advance Patrol
Overview: In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...
Genres: Drama War Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
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The Scent of Pheasant’s Eye: An Episode from the Tales of Flowers
Overview: When Kaoru's sister-in-law Miyoko arrives at the family home, tender feelings start to grow between the two. However, the initial happiness that Kaoru finds in the company of her beautiful sister-in-law is frustrated by her brother Mitsuo, Miyoko's husband, who intervenes in their budding passion. Full of unspoken words, deeply suggestive mise-en-scène, and forbidden glances, Fukujuso is a compelling melodrama that surprises us with its potent homoeroticism, especially considering its year of production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-03-07
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The Water Magician
Overview: Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always encloses money in her letters to him, until one hard winter there is no work to be found.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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Gamera vs. Barugon
Overview: Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.
Genres: Fantasy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-17
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Chikaiteshi
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-14
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Machi no uwasa mo sanjûgo nichi
Overview: A bride suddenly disappears from the wedding venue, and her boyfriend begins searching for her. Things get hectic around the two of them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-15
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A Grain of Wheat
Overview: The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who watch over them. Co-written by newcomer Shigeki Chiba and Kaneto Shindo, the film was directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-14
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Ocean Floor Crime #1
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-05
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