Shigeru Ogura
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: March 16, 1904
Deathday: May 29, 1958
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Stick Girl
Overview: Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-04-29
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Koibito-tachi no iru machi
Overview: Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop, is the lover of Douta Kuraishi, the manager of Cabaret Orion.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-02-19
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Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth
Overview: Period film about the legendary detective Umon
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-01-03
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Mr. Thank You
Overview: In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-02-27
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First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
Overview: Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a good-natured man and slow-witted. They are rarely seen together, and others often criticize them for being too boring and uninteresting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-11
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Kiro Ni Tachite
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-05-09
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Mother's Love Letter
Overview: Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-04-18
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Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-12-01
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The Emperor's Hat
Overview: A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-12-01
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Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
Overview: Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-13
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Kuronekokan ni Kieta Otoko
Overview: Comedy-horror film by Masaki Môri.
Genres: Comedy Horror Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-12
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Cordon at Dawn
Overview: 1957 crime film
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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Eclipse
Overview: The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the lawyer Kanda Seiji. In consequence, Shukichi leaves for Tokyo, where he becomes tutor to the son of the rich Iwaki family. The heartbroken Kinue also makes her way to the capital, where she becomes a bar hostess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-11-01
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A Woman Crying in Spring
Overview: Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido, Kenji attracts Ohama, who is travelling to Hokkaido to open a bar. When Kenji visits the bar, he chases away a sailor who was hassling a shy girl, Ofuji, which makes Ohama jealous.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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Flesh Pier
Overview: Director Teruo Ishi's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-12
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Hibari ga oka no taiketsu
Overview: Kyôko Yashiro's film debut for Shintoho.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-15
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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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Mother
Overview: A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-06-12
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Ginza Cosmetics
Overview: A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-04-14
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Woman Diver's Terror
Overview: Chie, who's chosen as 'Ms. Woman Diver', and her friend Yuki, have been missing for several days after they left for Tokyo to be interviewed by a magazine. Later, Yuki is found dead in the sea. Yoshi, Chie's sister, along with sailor Shunsuke, try to find Chie. Soon they learn about a conspiracy with diamonds in a ship sunk in the sea.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-22
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Chocolate Girl
Overview: Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-08-26
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
Overview: Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-05
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Shikeishû no shôri
Overview: 1957 crime film directed by Toshio Shimura for Shintoho.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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Love Letter
Overview: A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-13
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Santōshain to onna hisho
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-18
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The Fencing Collegian
Overview: Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-26
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Speed King
Overview: Japanese film about motorcycle racing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-11
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金語楼の雷社長
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-09-05
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日米花嫁花婿入替取替合戦
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-23
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大当りパチンコ娘
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-01-15
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ノイローゼ兄さんガッチリ娘
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-18
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The Chastity Boy and Miss Brassiere
Overview: Early pinku.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-18
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Shimizu no Jirocho den
Overview: Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-09-25
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Dimple of Tokyo
Overview: Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (the president) run away from the job. Nobuko took Buntaro to her home and introduced him to her own family as friend, "Sachio-san"...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-07-15
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The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Overview: Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous ghost stories throughout Japan.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-12
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Lil's Return from Shanghai
Overview: In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and tries to recreate the world he knew then.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-04
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Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals
Overview: Japanese mystery film.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-10
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Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-28
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珍説忠臣蔵
Overview: A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-03
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Kid Commotion
Overview: Kodakara Sodo (The Treasure That Is Children) is a 1935 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Torajiro Saito. This is a rare example of a silent Japanese slapstick film that has survived to this day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-03-23
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Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
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Genres: History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-14
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
Overview: This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Wife Lost
Overview: A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-06-15
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Dreams of Youth
Overview: Lost silent film
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-04-29
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Young Lady
Overview: Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journaist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to investigate a secret club for wealthy voyeurs. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-12-12
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Modan kaidan: 100,000,000 yen
Overview: A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-07-19
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Okuni and Gohei
Overview: A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until they have fulfilled their duty of hunting down and killing Tomonojo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-10
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Miki, the Swordman
Overview: After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up as bodyguard to Shigezo of Sasagawa leading up to an epic battle.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-02
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Love
Overview: Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son. The sister Machiko is the essential link that will allow everyone to apologize to each other and achieve reconciliation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-11-09
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If You Throw This Child Away
Overview: If you throw this child away
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-08-08
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妖婦 夜嵐お絹と天人お玉
Overview: Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-05-29
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