Akemi Nishi
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 13, 1930
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Soldiers' Girls
Overview: Women endure hardship and struggle to keep away from prostitution in the immediate aftermath of WWII. The "Special Comfort Women Association" (RAA) creates a shelter for women to avoid falling into prostitution. Young Fumiko and Yuko will try their luck there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-04
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I am the Judge
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-11
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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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Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū
Overview: Comedy movie
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-15
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Demon King of Yoja Manor
Overview: During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles’ star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita collapses on stage at Cabaret Copacana. Goro Hayatori, deputy director of Hayatori Hospital, grows suspicious of Akuri, founder of the new religion “Reihi-kyo,” who had predicted these incidents. Together with his fiancée Mitsuko Nogata and friend Chief Kamimura, he investigates Akuri. It’s revealed that Akuri conspired with Dr. Sakurada, a psychiatrist, using a brainwave-disrupting ray to cause Tsubota and Tsukita’s collapse. Disguised as “Busujima,” Sakurada operates from a nearby villa. Meanwhile, Dr. Stanley from Monotor Republic plans to assassinate conglomerate Maurice and enlists Sakurada to create a half-animal man. Soon after, Akuri predicts Tsubota’s death as Sakurada aims to showcase the creature’s power for profit.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-22
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An Inn at Osaka
Overview: An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-20
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Female Detective
Overview: With the object of discovering the male accomplice of Hideko, a bad girl, Michiko, a police-woman, disguises herself and infiltrates a gang. Then in a reformatory, under the name of Suzuko, she finds a certain girl who is familiar with Hideko and from her she approaches a woman, named Keiko. One day, at a beer-hall, the police-woman meets Keiko who just finished a secret narcotics transaction and asks her about Hideko. However, with the sudden appearance of Saburo, one of the gang, her search fails, and an exciting pursuit begins. Later Keiko is found dead.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-19
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Death Row Woman
Overview: Arrested for the murder of her wealthy businessman father, convicted on false evidence and sentenced to death, Kyoko is determined to prove her innocence.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-13
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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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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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太陽娘と社長族
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-05-18
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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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カックン超特急
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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Tōkaidō yajikita chin dōchū
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-27
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Kaachan
Overview: Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-09
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Shojo henreki
Overview: Pinku from 1966.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-15
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Female Slave Ship
Overview: The year is 1945, months prior to Japan's ultimate defeat in WW2, and military lieutenant Sugawa is sent on a critical mission to deliver micro-fiche war plans to Tokyo from his base in Malaysia. But while flying over Chinese waters his plane is shot down and he is taken aboard a ship bound for Shanghai to deliver its merchandise - a ship filled with Female Slaves kidnapped from Japan. Will he abandon the women to pursue his main objective? Or will he fight foes, spies and pirates to save these women against all odds?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-03
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Shôjo no hanpatsu
Overview: Pinku from 1965.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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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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Super Giant Continues: Kingdom of the Poison Moth
Overview: The 9th and final Super Giant film, in which he fights a group plotting to assassinate a Middle-Eastern prince for his country's treasure.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-24
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Satsujinhan nanatsu no kao
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-09
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