Yo Shiomi
Also Known As: Ё Сиоми
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: July 07, 1895
Age: 129 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 01, 1964
Popularity:
Known For:
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Overview: Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-14
Popularity:
Phoenix
Overview: Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attracting a crowded audience.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-14
Popularity:
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-12-30
Popularity:
The Devil of Edo
Overview: Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-05-06
Popularity:
Oogonju
Overview:
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-11-04
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
Overview: Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-12-20
Popularity:
Avalanche
Overview: The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-07-01
Popularity:
The Eagle of the Pacific
Overview: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-21
Popularity:
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
Overview: The debut film of Shin Toho Productions
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-02-25
Popularity:
The Beautiful Hawk
Overview: One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-10-01
Popularity:
Keshô yuki
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-02-14
Popularity:
Karisome no kuchibeni
Overview: A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-11-22
Popularity:
Banzuiin Chōbei
Overview: A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-05-29
Popularity:
憧れのハワイ航路
Overview: Akogare no Hawaii kôro
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-04-01
Popularity:
Kantaro of Ina
Overview: War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-01-03
Popularity:
Green Earth
Overview: Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their families, for the company in order to construct a canal. There are young Chinese resisting the Japanese in this area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-04-01
Popularity:
Maboroshi Tantei: Chiteijin Shūrai
Overview: First "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-14
Popularity:
I'm Not the Criminal
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-12
Popularity:
The Last Embrace
Overview: Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in an avalanche, Yukiko leaves the mountains in despair and takes a job in a bar where she becomes deeply involved in the personal lives of several of the patrons. One day she thinks she sees Shinkichi alive, but it turns out to be a gangster named Hayakawa, a man on the run who bears an astonishing resemblance to Yukiko's lost love. Against her better judgment, she is drawn to help Hayakawa, though clearly danger follows him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-11
Popularity:
The Moon Has Risen
Overview: Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-08
Popularity:
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
Overview: Part one of two.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-01-18
Popularity:
A Ripple in a Morning
Overview: Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-01
Popularity:
Omokage no machi
Overview: A 1942 film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-11-13
Popularity:
Invisible Man
Overview: When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Mystery Horror Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-29
Popularity:
The Girl in the Rumor
Overview: A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but is running into financial trouble, causing him to tamper with his stock; Meanwhile, his long-time mistress yearns for something more serious. Amidst this, the older sister is introduced to a well-off suitor: A university boy, much more intrigued by the less traditional little sister. A doddering grandfather, an officious uncle and busybody neighbors also don't make the lives of the hardworking members of the family any easier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-12-22
Popularity:
Wedding Day
Overview: Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-03-20
Popularity:
Summer Storm
Overview: A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-01
Popularity:
Kaguya Hime
Overview: Toho's production of the classic Japanese fairytale.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-11-11
Popularity:
音楽大進軍
Overview: A 1943 film.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-03-18
Popularity:
China Night
Overview: Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part Shanghai travelogue, it was part of a popular series known as "Chinese Continental Friendship" made by the occupying Japanese in China.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-01-02
Popularity:
Nangoku taiheiki
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-08-11
Popularity:
Iemitsu and Hikoza
Overview: A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing somewhat against type).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-03-26
Popularity:
Learn from Experience, Part One
Overview: Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of Mizoguchi’s "Water Magician), a rich young woman in love with Shintaro (Minoru TAKADA), a rich young man. Unfortunately, Shintaro’s father is in the process of arranging a marriage for him with Yurie (Chieko TAKEHISA), the scion of an even wealthier family. In order to avoid this, the two young lovers flee to Tokyo to live together. When Shintaro comes back to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father browbeats him into attending the long-arranged marriage meeting with Yurie. While Shintaro is back home, Toyomi goes on a vacation trip with her closest chum, Michiko (Yumeko AIZOME). At a class reunion, Toyomi is to distressed (at not having heard from Shintaro for so long), she doesn’t go out on the town with her classmates. Michiko, however, runs into Shintaro and Yurie (also out on the town), and pulling him aside, demands an explanation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-10-01
Popularity:
Dancers of Awa
Overview: Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin. His brother (Kazuo Hasegawa) vowed vengeance on the day of his brother's death. So every year the villains are worried during the Awa Dance Festival (which is part of the Obon festival), but nothing has ever happened, until seven years later...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-05-21
Popularity:
Namiko
Overview: An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western sources that give sole directing credit to Eizo Tanaka, it was actually co-directed by six different directors, Tanaka, Kazue Kimura, Kazuo Takimura, Ryoji Mikami and Hidekuni Ouchi.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-05-19
Popularity:
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
Overview: A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to rescue them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-29
Popularity:
Seishun wo warera ni
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-28
Popularity:
Mother of the Red Hands
Overview: The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone in a fishermen's village. She is a strong-minded girl and very popular among young children. I guess that this story is one of the origins of girl's manga in the 1950s in which I belonged to the first generation of Japanese story manga.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-09-03
Popularity:
Flowers Blooming In the Storm
Overview: Jidaigeki from 1940
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-07-03
Popularity:
Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
Overview: Part two of two.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-01-18
Popularity:
Living Image
Overview: A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-10-12
Popularity:
Machi
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-08-20
Popularity:
Okumura Ioka
Overview: Okumura Ioko story directed by Shiro Toyoda
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-06-25
Popularity:
The Giant
Overview: Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be found by a monk. The criminal decides to turn a new leaf based on their conversation and goes on to become a town's mayor. He hears news of a mistaken arrest and identity. The revelation of truth is the start of a series of miseries.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-02-02
Popularity:
Mado Kara Tobidase
Overview: The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an agricultural and livestock industry, and has his father Ritaro (Hiroshi Shiomi), younger brother Yuji (Keiju Kobayashi), wife Fujiko (Kiko Todoroki), and four children (three of whom are Obinata's sons). They lived in a large family of 8 people, including 2 children and 2 daughters. The Fujieda family next door is Chieko (Ayako Okamura), whose husband, a captain, died in a shipwreck at sea, her daughter Mariko (Kyoko Kagawa), and her son Michio (Oohinata's son), who has a leg disability and is undergoing rehabilitation. ) We were a family of three. Through the interaction between the Tokuyama family and the Fujieda family, the importance of family and the kindness of people are reflected on the screen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-03-26
Popularity:
The Samurai of Edo
Overview: This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restoration, and therefore, shows audience the dynamic change from Edo to Meiji. Before the war, the director, Eisuke Takizawa, together with the writers, formed a scenario writer group "Narutaki-gumi and they shot many historical masterpieces.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-23
Popularity:
Kanshō fujin
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-24
Popularity:
Eleven High School Girls
Overview: With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt unexpectedly in each other's hearts that "this teacher will surely be our confidant," and looked at each other and nodded their heads. This was the beginning of their collective affection for the new Ms. Shiono. The school for girls is a sacred place where the hearts of hundreds of innocent girls should ferment beautifully and freely for the day when they will become wives and mothers to come. How can we abandon them in such a state? Even after the nightmarish war was over, the nightmare remained at Shuei Girls' School.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-08-21
Popularity:
青春蛮歌
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-30
Popularity:
Chorus of the Century--Patriotic March
Overview: A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early days as a clarinetist in the Imperial Japanese Navy band to his later years when his music, in particular the famed “Warship March” (Gunkan kōshinkyoku), surged in popularity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-04-21
Popularity:
右門捕物帖 片眼狼
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-01-08
Popularity:
Osanaki mono no hata
Overview: Two brothers move to their grandfather's house after their father is drafted and play war games with their new classmates.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-06-17
Popularity:
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
Overview: Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English. Despite facing opposition from his family and nationalist factions, he founds Keio University, becoming a key figure in Japan's modernization amid political turmoil.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-01
Popularity: