Ikuko Kimuro
Also Known As: 木室郁子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: November 10, 1935
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Female
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Hitotsu no inochi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-27
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Wind and waves of the South
Overview: Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth of mother's hands. It seemed that joy settled in their house again. But one day a storm caught the fishermen at sea. Father did not return... Father's friends, fishermen, tried to help the widow, who was left with two children. But the money was still not enough. And then Kazuo decided to become a fisherman. After all, he was now the eldest in the family...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-19
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Joshiryōsai
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-06
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Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Overview: Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a young student, Katō Yutaka, who asks her to let him take her picture. The peddlers also meet a jazz band, and when Midori sings a song, teased by the band's star singer Nanjō Haruo, the band members are enraptured by her beautiful voice. She eventually joins the band and quickly becomes a popular jazz singer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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The Happy Dancers
Overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-05-10
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Sararīman monogatari - Taiki bansai
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-20
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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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The Temptress and the Monk
Overview: Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-14
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A Hole of My Own Making
Overview: Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-28
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Forever a Woman
Overview: Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of her life, she meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-23
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Inn of the Floating Weeds
Overview: Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-09
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Youth of the Beast
Overview: When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-21
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Kitakami yakyoku
Overview: Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-22
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Gyakukōsen
Overview: Reiko, a free-spirited college girl not bound by social conventions, ends up having an affair with an older, married man even though she already has a boyfriend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-14
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The Sky Is Mine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-01
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Jigoku no hatoba
Overview: A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement, witnesses two men shooting each other and collapsing on the quay while his assistant Shinsuke is away.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-04
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Breasts and Bullets
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-29
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The Cards Will Tell
Overview: A 1960 crime film
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-16
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少年死刑囚
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-03
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高校四年
Overview: 1957 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-06
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