Eiko Kujo
Also Known As: Kyoko Kujo, Kujyo Kyoko, Eiko Terayama, Torayama Eiko, 九条今日子, 九条映子, 九條映子
Biography: Kujyo Kyoko (October 22, 1935 - April 30, 2014) was a Japanese actress, theater, film producer from Azabu, Tokyo. The stage name of the actress was Eiko Kujo (Kujo Eiko). Real name is Eiko Terayama (Torayama Eiko). Husband Shuji Terayama. After graduating from Mihoda Gakuen Junior High School · High School, she debuted on the stage of Shochiku Opera Group under the name of Eiko Kujo. After that, she moved to Shochiku movie and appeared in Yoshitaro Nomura's film "Yellow cherries" (1960) etc etc. In 1967 Shuji Terayama, Tadanori Yokoo and others founded "Drama Laboratory / Ceiling Arts", and Kujo is responsible for the production. Also made a movie. In 1970 she got divorced from Terayama (except Terayama's surname). After Terayama died in 1983, she was in charge of the copyright management of the Terayama work and gave lectures all over the country. In recent years I gave a lecture at Hirosaki Gakuin University in 2009. She served as Representative Director of Terayama World Limited Company. Misawa City Shuji Terayama memorial hall honorary director. Misawa City Tourism Ambassador. On April 30, 2014, she died at his house in Tokyo due to rupture of esophageal varices due to cirrhosis of the liver. 78 year old died. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Production
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: October 22, 1935
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 30, 2014
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Hiroi Ten
Overview: A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-14
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The Cage
Overview: Finished shooting in 1962, the movie’s cast was almost the same as its crew. With a bunch of experimental symbols such as skinny human body, clock and goat flow from one scene to another, the film explores the question of whether a man is a prisoner of time.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Tomorrow's Sun
Overview: A playful short film made in the style of a trailer for a fictional feature film that seems to be a spoof of films that were popular in Japan at the time.
Genres: Romance Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-13
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Donto ikōze
Overview: Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-08
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Youth in Fury
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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Hattari Seinen Shinshi
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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The Days of Evil Women
Overview: The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-30
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Tokyo Omnibus
Overview: The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-30
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Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Love and the Shop Curtain
Overview: Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 Tokyo Olympics. Maki, the son of the owner of the Benten Hotel, likes Yuri and wants to get closer to her. So, he asks Milton, an American exchange student, to stay at her inn so he can get closer to her. But Yuri is in love with Shin, a cook at her inn. And although Shin likes her too, the two are constantly bickering. Complicating matters more, is that every other available girl also likes Shin including Chikako, who lives at his boarding house, and Chikoma, who is a geisha. One day when Yuri gets a phone call, she suspects that her mother might be having an affair. But it turns out that Otami reunited with her old flame Tomo, who also used to work as a chef at the inn but left because he feared that their class backgrounds were too different. When Shin learns that Yuri is going to marry...will history repeat itself?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-28
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Yellow Cherries
Overview: The film is based on the 1959 hit song of the same name by the Three Cats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-18
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