Rieko Sumi
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: March 07, 1928
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 12, 2005
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Yume de aritai

Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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The Song Lantern

Overview: The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the actors of the Japanese classical theater No, friendship, hatred and love…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-18
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Sound of the Mountain

Overview: An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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Outlaw island

Overview: The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous for its bullfights. Today there is also a bull market in the village, and there are extremely many people here. The black bull "Great Tengu", which Gonzo from Misaki offered, cost 50,000, but was forcibly taken away by a Bakuro soldier, who possessed extraordinary strength and physique, for less than half the price. However, the violent soldier was in love with Tsunayo, the hostess of the inn and the organizer of the bullfight. One day, a young man from the city, an Ihara police officer, arrives in the village. And soon the real problems will begin…
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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Gang's Upward Strategy

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-18
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Ken

Overview: Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-14
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Mr. Minami is Very Embarrassed

Overview: Directed by Edagawa Hiroshi, this film stars Funakoshi Eiji and Kawakami Yasuko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-05-19
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The Venus' Tear

Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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The Missing Heir

Overview: Ginpei, in an act of desperation to get money for his gravely ill mother, was laughed at and ended up fighting with the companions of the castle patrol Matsunomura Genba, including Onimatsu. He was later reconciled by the family elder Ishikawa Yoriimo, who also gave him some money. Returning home happily, Ginpei found that his mother had already passed away. Okin, the daughter of a soba shop owner, comforted the heartbroken Ginpei, who in gratitude became affiliated with the Ishikawa household. Ginpei, a ruffian but ordinarily a quiet and honest man, became favored by Yoriimo's wife Chiyo and their child Harunosuke, and he began to accompany Yoriimo to the castle. Inside the castle, the family elder Otsuki Gyobu was in cahoots with Yoshitada's favorite concubine, Osada no Kata, and together with the treacherous Genba, they were plotting to establish Osada no Kata's child, Seinosuke, as the heir.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-02-22
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Yabanjin no Nekutai

Overview: Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into an orgy of male-female sexual misconduct, and when he dropped off Roze, whom he had met there, he saw her sister, Kaoru, forgetting her impurity. One day, he went to an orgy where he met Roze, and he could not forget the purity of her older sister, Kaoru. A few days later, Gen went to the party again and was mistaken for the boss's brother.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-01
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The Betrothed

Overview: Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-05-28
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Shogun's Holiday

Overview: During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) to the fishmonger Isshin Tasuke (Kazuo Hasegawa) to help him understand the world. Tasuke, who does not know that Takechiyo is the shogun's heir, trains him harshly. Tasuke's wife Naka (Michiko Ai) is concerned about his harsh teaching style, but Takechiyo gains strength day by day and adapts to his new life. Soon, Takechiyo begins secretly talking about love with a city girl named Otoyo (Hitomi Nozoe), but...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-12
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Danchi fujin

Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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The Sentimental Idiot

Overview: A young man steals money for a cabaret singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-18
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Kigeki: Hanayome sensô

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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-30
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Hana no yukyo-den

Overview: 1958 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-31
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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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A Night to Remember

Overview: Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Beyond the Hills

Overview: Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-07-08
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坊ちゃんの特ダネ記者

Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-03
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紋三郎の秀

Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-15
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The Rainbow-Colored Flower

Overview: Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish teenage war orphan who tries to offer herself for money but is instead taken in by Ebihara, Koyabu, a middle-aged woman who has spent much of her life as the kept woman of a wealthy man, and Teruko, the modest daughter of Ebihara's former teacher who comes to rely on him after the death of her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-10-14
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Dare yori mo kimi o aisu

Overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-20
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Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree

Overview: Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the tutor for Mariko, the second daughter of the bourgeois Todo family. The eldest daughter of the Todo family, Tomoe, is a typical bourgeois lady who secretly loves Fuyuhiko Kanae, an architectural engineer who is designing her villa. For Reiko, the life of the Todo family is completely different, but when she meets the bright and intelligent Fuyuhiko, she feels more than just affection for him, going beyond Reiko's circumstances. Meanwhile, Fuyuhiko also begins to love the neat and beautiful Reiko. The relationship between the two develops rapidly, but Reiko's heart is complicated. This is because Reiko has an older sister, Ginko, who works in a red-light district...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-11
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The Forest of No Escape

Overview: Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-23
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Nonki saiban

Overview: A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-24
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A Woman’s Road

Overview: Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-14
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Morishige's Honeymoon

Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-14
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The Third Shadow Warrior

Overview: In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-21
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A Woman's Gamble

Overview: Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin, an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling, as she sets out to become Japan's number one dealer.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-26
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Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan

Overview: It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars Ichikawa Raizo and Katsu Shintaro are magnificent as the two finest young swordsmen in the clan. As they vie for the hand of a beautiful woman their loyalty comes into question during an attack on their lord. When one of them masters the secret technique taught to him by Miyamoto Musashi, it leads to bloody violence that can tear the clan apart! Filled with superb swordplay this rare classic is not to be missed!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-26
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Thoroughbred Women Gamblers

Overview: Fourth 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: 1967-12-08
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A Gang of Five

Overview: A group of five law enforcers search Edo for a missing sword.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-15
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Gonpachi

Overview: Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-28
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Black Dividend

Overview: Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love with Ibuki, reveals her firm's plans to him. She resigns when Ibuki blackmails her employer but Ibuki gains another spy in Ayuko Ichinoi...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-21
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Akiko

Overview: Akiko lives with her brother Toshio in suburban Tokyo working in different companies. One day, Toshio loses 500,000 yen which he was holding for his section chief, and as he is unable to return the money, tries to kill himself. Akiko determines to obtain the money by selling her chastity and soon becomes the mistress of Hasegawa, for 500,000 yen. Hasegawa gives her the money but does not make advances. Before she became Hasegawa's mistress Akiko was in love with Wake, who works in the same Company. Gradually Akiko begins to develop a liking for Hasegawa and in turn, her love for Wake gradually weakens...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-20
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Strange Triangle

Overview: A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however. For she is pregnant and so he agrees to live with her. But he misses very much the other younger girl whom he saw a lot of, and with the older woman's consent, sees the younger one and on her request, asks her to move in with them. This is the beginning of a very strange triangle which they all live through to a not unhappy ending.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-31
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Jirocho in Disgrace

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-14
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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 Midday Trap

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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-19
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Girls Born in August

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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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The Enforcer

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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-14
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The Snowy Heron

Overview: The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-29
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By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him

Overview: Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando) can stop them, as long as he gets rid of his silly peace-loving ideals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-23
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Our Chief, Our Doctor

Overview: It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him the nickname ‘the pork cutlet prince’ (‘Tonkatsu Taisho’, the film’s Japanese title) from the affectionate residents of the tenement in which he lives. When a local hospital, run by a female doctor, plans to expand, the future of the tenement is called into question.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-02-15
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I, the Executioner

Overview: Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-13
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Yanagase Blues

Overview: Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-15
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Hot Spring Policeman

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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-21
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Doctor's Day Off

Overview: Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-01
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Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido

Overview: Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent in Hakodate, Hokkaido, and meets along the way a young bear-hunter with whom she begins an adventure.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-14
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New Couple's Guide: The Young Wife is Popular

Overview: A coming-of-age story that depicts the crisis of love in marital life in a light-hearted way, centering on the family of a young scholar whose young wife is a female doctor who has made a name for herself in sex medicine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-08
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Ripe and Marriageable

Overview: 1959 youth comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-17
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Love River

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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-22
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Mother

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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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Shin Jinsei Gekijo

Overview: 1961 Theater of Life adaptation.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-31
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Boss of Hades

Overview: 1957 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-22
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Tokyo Eyes

Overview: A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the daughter of a company president, creating a miniature picture of the youth of Tokyo that revolves around these four characters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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Ocean Floor Crime #1

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-05
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Prize of Flesh

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Original Language: ja
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The Ginza Three Boys

Overview: The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Wakai yatsura no kaidan

Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-27
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