Ranko Sawa
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Birthday: July 25, 1903
Deathday: January 11, 2003
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Red Peony of Night
Overview: A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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The Morning Sun Shines
Overview: The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, and documentary footage about newspaper production. Only 25 minutes of footage has survived.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-04-12
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Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Overview: Set in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge to be friends. But when a youth named Henry appears on his motorcycle and offers to take Sunako for a ride, we know that this friendship won't last and that the lives of both girls will change in ways they are barely able to comprehend, and can do little to change.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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Every-Night Dreams
Overview: In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-06-08
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Chuji's Travel Diary: The Chuji Patrol Episode
Overview: The Japanese equivalent of penny dreadfuls glorifying Jesse James, A Diary of Chuji’s Travels gives a unique gloss to the tale of Chuji Kunisada, the legendary bakuto (or gambler, the precursors to modern-day yakuza). One of the two remaining segments of Ito’s original four-hour trilogy, it depicts Chuji’s attempt to save the geisha Oshina, a rebellion against the rigid social structure of Edo Japan. With socialist overtones, it’s a passionate artifact of early Japanese film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1927-12-27
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First Steps Ashore
Overview: Early Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-04-14
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ABC Lifeline
Overview: Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-12-12
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A Woman's Sorrows
Overview: Japanese domestic drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-01-21
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