Daijirō Natsukawa
Also Known As: 夏川大吾
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 31, 1913
Deathday: July 16, 1987
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Mother is Strong
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-12-17
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Oyuki the Virgin
Overview: When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women prove to be morally superior to their betters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-10-05
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Hotaru no hikari
Overview: Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their student life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-04-14
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Sanada Ten Braves
Overview: 1954 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-12
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The Downfall of Osen
Overview: In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi and Osen, while swindling some Buddhist monks out of their temple treasures. When Kumazawa is arrested, Osen agrees to help Sokichi finance his dream of going to medical school. They live in a humble room, and eventually the only way Osen can find enough money for them is to prostitute herself during the day, without Sokichi knowing. (Will Gilbert)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-01-20
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A Man's Recompense: Part 2
Overview: Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with his childhood friend Michiko Kuwano, but his mother (Fumiko Okamura) is against her, so he gives up easily and ends up being married to Kinuyo Tanaka.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-08-24
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A Man's Recompense: Part 1
Overview: Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with his childhood friend Michiko Kuwano, but his mother (Fumiko Okamura) is against her, so he gives up easily and ends up being married to Kinuyo Tanaka.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-08-13
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The Golden Demon
Overview: A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becomes a miser.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-06-10
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Passion Fire
Overview: The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was approaching Hida Takayama, the district head Shimizu Uzen fled to Edo. Local officials like Yoshida Bunsuke and Yoshizumi Hironoshin showed their allegiance by welcoming them. The commander at the time, Umemura Hayami, was a former member of the Tengu Party and had previously been pursued in the town. He took refuge in a restaurant named Kabuya, and owing to a tip-off from a woman named Oraku, he was almost captured for her lover, Yoshizumi. Oraku and Yoshizumi probably feared revenge from that previous encounter, but Umemura had come back to Hida because he couldn't forget Oraku.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-12-10
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Poppy
Overview: Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to Munechika, a rising young diplomat. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. But she falls in love with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono is himself bound by an engagement to Sayoko, the daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue. The self-centered Fujio is ready to forsake everything for Ono, but he is prevailed upon to go ahead with his marriage to Sayoko. Fujio then offers the watch to Munechika who, perceiving Fujio’s true feelings, hurls the watch into the sea.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-10-31
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The Lights of Asakusa
Overview: Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-12-02
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Minamoto Yoshitsune
Overview: A historical scroll depicting the story of the tragic fate of the young samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune, based on the novel by Genzo Murakami. The action of the first part takes place in the late Heian period, when the Taira clan came to power, and Genji was oppressed. The great dream and ambitions of Genkuro Yoshitsune in his youth are depicted, he joins forces with his older brother Yoritomo to raise an army to defeat the Taira clan, and the second part depicts the fall of the clan, persecution and murder.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-30
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牢獄の花嫁
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-29
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Boy Aviation Pilots
Overview: Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering the service, while the other finds a job in civilian aviation through his instructor's good offices.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-07-24
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Hirado Pirates
Overview: In the 9th year of the Tempo era, after a long sea voyage, Moritaya Seizo returned to Hirado, who earned huge amounts of gold by piracy. Along the way, he picked up Ichinojo Kaneko, a Ronin who survived the disaster at sea. Seizo and Orin, the daughter of merchant Yohei, are in love with each other and want to get married. However, Kashiwakura Gaiki, the samurai of the domain, wants to kill Seizo for the sake of his son Shozaburo, who is in love with Arin, and Kurando Matsuura, the owner of the castle, wants to seize all the gold for himself...
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-07
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Half Virgin
Overview: Miyake has a boyfriend, Daijiro Natsukawa, who is a novelist, but considering her future marriage, Miyake is also looking for a job for her, but Saburi, who was in her private car, does not come to his company. mosquito? She is told that she has to work.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-04-28
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Hideko the Bus Conductress
Overview: Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-09-17
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The Comb of Oroku
Overview: Once a wealthy local land owner, Toranosuke has long since fallen on hard times. Social ostracism befalls those who neglect communal duties and Toranosuke's life goes down hill by being exiled from the village. The story evolves around brother and sister Umakichi and Oroku left alone by their father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-05-09
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The Invisible Man Appears
Overview: Jewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace called the "Tears of Amour."
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-09-26
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Tsukigata Hanpeita
Overview: During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt government and end the bloodshed between the Choshu and Satsuma clans which would ultimately lead to the alliance of these 2 clans and restoration of the emperor to full power. Based on the play that made Sawada Shojiro famous, this is the story of Tsukigata Hanpeita, a forward looking samurai from Choshu, who along with Katsura Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma of Tosa worked to bring their dream of a new era in Japan.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-29
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Harbor Rats
Overview: A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were oppressed by arrogant captain and his officers. The crews caused an uprising. A manager of stevedore ordered his employee leader to suppress an uprising...
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-21
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Renai muteki kantai
Overview: A 1937 Japanese film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-01-21
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Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-04-17
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Wood and Stone
Overview: Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness. No.10 in the list of "The 10 best films of 1940" by Kinema Junpo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-08-01
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Penitentiary Brothers
Overview: Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-26
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Song for a Bride
Overview: An Ishiro Honda film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-11
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Spring Thunder
Overview: Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her cronies, organizing music concerts and so on. However, things change when her father's business fails and she was suddenly thrown out into the world without any foundation. Eiko has no one to support her after she loses her social status, and her only tutor, Shinnosuke (Natsukawa Daijiro) was the only one who was sincere. Eiko is a stickler for using everything she can get her hands on, and she quickly moves into Shinnosuke's house.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-04-13
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Child of the Streets
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1924-06-01
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Warm Current
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-29
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Taki no shiraito
Overview: A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-10-01
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New Woman Question and Answer
Overview: Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko (Kuniko Miyake), one of the seven best friends from the same women's college, is getting married. The man she's marrying is her sister's lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-06-01
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The Glow of Life
Overview: A country girl Teruko falls in love with the aristocrat Yanagisawa. When she once asks him what the meaning of life is, he responds that it is to live freely. Unfortunately, he does that by abandoning her. Teruko tries to commit suicide, but luckily is saved. Yanagisawa returns and apologizes to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1919-09-13
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Fill the Cup with Blood
Overview: Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn between the organization and his old friends.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-08
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