Also Known As: Yachiyo Ôtori
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: April 21, 1933
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Gender: Female
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Overview: A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the attractive joy of first love, and separation is like parting with life. The mother-daughter duet with Isuzu Yamada attracted a lot of attention at that time. Haruko Wanibuchi, demonstrated rare attractiveness and pure charm by playing a heroine living in a beautiful and pure first love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-23
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Overview: A unique youth masterpiece depicting the awakening of male and female sexuality with a refreshing touch of the breath of youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-09-10
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Overview: This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other words, he was the Japanese Robin Hood. In this film Kunisada (Chiezo Kataoka) arrives to a small town terrorized by an evil gang. He insists that he is not Kunisada, as the word is Kunisada has been executed, but of course the audience know better. Sonny Chiba plays an unusual supporting role as a helpless young man unable to defend himself from the gangsters. He does, however, get to play taiko drums and dance with Junko Fuji (who makes her film debut here). Chiba's father, an old judge who helps Kunisada, is played by Takashi Shimura. The film hardly anything exceptional, but it's a pretty decent jidai geki / yakuza drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-30
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-28
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Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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Overview: Lord Gennosuke and Princess Yoshi are to be betrothed to one another, however Gennosuke is already in love with Suzue who is from a lower caste. The order has been sent from up on high that if Gennosuke won't change his mind then Suzue must be dealt with one way or another. When spearmaster, Fuwa Mondo, a Ronin and all around happy guy stumbles into the plot, things get a little hokey-pokey.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-17
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Overview: Japanese film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-26
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Overview: The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-15
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Overview: Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at a printing factory, and they come to learn the bitterness and sadness of love. The two live humbly by the River Kanda, but are viewed coldly by people around them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-06
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Overview: Japanese film based on the song by Harumi Miyako.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-06
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Overview: A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insoluble feelings of alienation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-30
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Overview: A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-15
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Overview: The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale detective drama in which two newspaper reporters investigate the mysterious death of a teacher in Hokuriku and the dark suspicions that lurk behind it.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-26
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-27
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Overview: Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-23
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Overview: A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-31
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Overview: Japanese-Italian adaptation of Puccini's opera.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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Overview: A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo, whose father entrusts her to him with his dying wish. To honor his promise to Osayo's deceased father, Yatappe brings her to safety, and from a distance keeps a watchful eye on her well being.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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Overview: The president of the Hong Kong Almond Cola company, Liu's grandfather, signed a purchase and sale agreement with Showa Nakajima from Japan, and shortly before leaving for Japan, someone attacked him. Before he died, before he lost consciousness, he transferred all the rights to the company to his close confidant Murota and told him to transfer them to his daughter, whom he left in Japan 20 years ago. Murota, who inherited Liu's will, went to Japan. However, the gang of James Howe, the head of the Hong Kong trading world, was waiting for him, seeking to obtain the rights to Almond Cola…
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-13
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Overview: A young wife is frightened that her husband and her father's second wife may be in cahoots with each other and are after her fortune. And then, finally, a murder occurs.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-05-29
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