Hisano Yamaoka
Also Known As: Хисано Ямаока, 山岡比佐乃
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ōta, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: August 27, 1926
Deathday: February 15, 1999
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Aru kankei
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-21
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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.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-14
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Kusa wo karu musume
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-25
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The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
Overview: Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-20
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Nishi Ginza Station
Overview: This short comedy concerns the extramarital affair of a drugstore owner. It is based on a popular song by the star of the film, Frank Nagai.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-29
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Cell No. 8
Overview: A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-15
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Women and Miso Soup
Overview: Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-04
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Confession
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-21
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Night Guy
Overview: Tokyo at night. It has another face, different from the daytime. Gorgeous neon lights and dressed-up women decorate the city at night. And then, there are men who live off of these women. This movie depicts the conflict of sex and desire between a procurer, called a "night arranger," and women who live in the neon city seeking money and pleasure.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-15
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Kaei
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-09
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The Scarlet Camellia
Overview: A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-21
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The Political Game
Overview: This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. Noritaka Sakamoto was in charge of photography, and Kentaro Haneda was in charge of music direction. It depicts how an honest candidate aiming for a clean election campaign gradually collapses in the face of various realities. Kiyokawa, the mayor of Higurashi City, died at his lover's house. Yoshihiko announces that he will conduct a clean election campaign, but his sponsors and backers are reluctant.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-05-03
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Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu
Overview: 1965 Nikkatsu youth film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-15
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Overview: Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-14
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Elegant Beast
Overview: A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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Forbidden Lips
Overview: A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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Lullaby to Kill
Overview: Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-04-02
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Wakai tsume ato
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-09
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Wild Ducks and Green Onions
Overview: The four-member con group, including the intellectual boss Nobukichi Ishiguro (Masayuki Mori), who is called an "aristocrat con man" for his elegant appearance; the amorous Kyuhei Maruki (Tadao Takashima); the inventive Yosuke Mori (Hideo Sunatsuka); and the amorous Mami (Mako Midori), set one bizarre trap after another in their quest for the perfect crime in this wry crime comedy.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-16
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Dawn of a Canvas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-01
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Streetlights
Overview: A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-13
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Totteoki no Seishun
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-06
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The Tempters: Smile After Tears
Overview: Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and his friends decide to form a cool rock band, but a tragic discovery about his family weighs on Shoken heavily.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-29
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Remembering the Cosmos Flower
Overview: Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick with paranoia, is quick to ostracize the ailing Akiko. With only her best friend and her mom in her corner, Akiko suffers awful discrimination at school and at home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-03
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Heat Wave Island
Overview: Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution, and murder in which many poor farmers had found themselves trapped after World War II.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-29
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The Sleeping Beast Within
Overview: When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive consequences.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-09
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Lost in the Wilderness
Overview: The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1970, Uemura also accomplished several "firsts". He was the first man to reach the North Pole solo, climb Denali solo, and float down the Amazon river solo. In the film, Uemura returns to Tokyo after a stint in Siorapaluk in Northern Greenland. In Tokyo, he reconnects with an old friend and, over coffee, shares his life story - from his days as a college dropout to his successful expedition to the top of Everest.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-06-07
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When the Cookie Crumbles
Overview: Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-09
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Kanshō fujin
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-24
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旗本退屈男 どくろ屋敷
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-03
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Blood-Red Water in the Channel
Overview: Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten. He became the new "teen star." And Suzuki: "the director to watch."
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
Overview: Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-12
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The House of the Sleeping Virgins
Overview: About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-31
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Time Within Memory
Overview: Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-24
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Living by Karate
Overview: Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-16
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Inn of the Floating Weeds
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-09
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Just for You
Overview: Yumi Ishikawa (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen and a popular geisha. Orphaned when a child, Yumi she was raised by Shizuko, the madame of a geisha house. Yumi is impulsive, out-going. And although she cannot claim to be good at Japanese dancing or playing musical instruments so necessary to a geisha, she is a whizz at go-go and will dance the hula at parties. But before becoming a full-fledged geisha, Yumi must go through the ceremony of the "mizuage", when a budding geisha surrenders her virginity to an experienced man who makes her a woman. Takida, a rich money-lender, is chosen for Yumi's mizuage but she offers herself first to Keiichi (Ryo Tamura), who she really loves although she knows that his world and hers are too far apart for a successful marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-25
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Koto—The Lake of Tears
Overview: A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings, only to find her peaceful life turned upside down when a master musician takes personal interest in her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-13
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A Geisha's Diary
Overview: A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-28
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The Storm over Arabia
Overview: A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on location overseas, which was groundbreaking at the time.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-24
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Crossroad
Overview: Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt to perfect his crime, he drives to a remote quarry to bury his wife’s body, but along the way, he finds another dead body in the back of his car! Given no choice, Ise dumps both bodies. Meanwhile, Yoshie begins her search for her missing brother, Yoshihiko. After surprising twists and turns, Ise faces his fate.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-14
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That Wonderful Guy
Overview: Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-06
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Samurai Rebellion
Overview: The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-27
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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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Take Care, Red Riding Hood
Overview: A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-04
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The President's Son
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-27
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Ningen Gari
Overview: A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-23
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Green Fruit
Overview: Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-22
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The Man of Victory
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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Wild Geese
Overview: Otama, daughter of a poor candy vendor, becomes the mistress of a man whom she believes to be a widower and owner of a prosperous dry goods store. The man is in fact married with children, and is a despised loan shark who takes money from the poor without qualms. Totally enraptured with Otama, this usurer establishes her and her father in separate houses and generously gives them gifts including silk taken as interest from Oshige, a poor cloth dealer who does business with the sewing teacher, Otama's neighbor. Otama's satisfaction with her situation gradually crumbles as she discovers the truth about her benefactor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-05-21
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Nikoyon monogatari
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-09-11
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Yassamossa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-02-25
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Onna no Naka no Kaze
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-09
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Knock Down
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-20
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The Story of Jiro
Overview: Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-04
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
Overview: A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-02
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At the End of the Clouds
Overview: A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-09
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Sixteen years old
Overview: Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and lent it to her only Mikayo. Senko was somehow envious of her flashy life... In a tragedy with a girl living in the base as the main character, Katsumi Miki of "Life like a weed" adapted the original story of Muraji Uchiki and directed by Eisuke Takizawa of "Ajisai no Uta".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-01
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The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
Overview: This typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture at Hokkaido University, who takes on a conspiracy involving a mysterious accidental death at a construction site.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-12
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Forever, My Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-05
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The juvenile
Overview: A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-18
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Jinsei Gekijo
Overview: 1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-23
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