Itoko Wakaura
Also Known As: 和歌浦糸子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
Adult: No
Gender: Other
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Pfc. Story - The Divine Tempest
Overview: First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-09
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越後獅子祭
Overview: 1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-26
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The Beloved Imposters
Overview: 1958 Mito Kumon movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-11
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Female Fox Palanquin
Overview: One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya, revealing herself to a beautiful woman. She told the owner, Shigebē, that she had come to collect a life he owed from twenty years ago and then left. The same night, Maruiya Genbē also received a visit from the woman's palanquin, and nearby, a man named Manbē was murdered. The detective Hayanawa Gohē concluded the murder was the work of a fox spirit, but another detective, Den Shichi, skeptical of this theory, noticed footprints on the tatami and decided to investigate further.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Overview: The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money from his employer to redeem her. Hunted criminals, the two young lovers take flight to Yamato, but, as in Chikamatsu's other domestic tragedies of love and duty (known as sewamono), they must be pursued and their passion destroyed by death. Favourite Uchida themes, such as the indenturing of a prostitute , and his characteristic emphasis on performance and theatrical artifice re-emerge here; but the daring device of having Chikamatsu appear as a character - not unlike having Shakespeare interpolated into a film adaptation of one of his plays - is just one of many surprises this remarkable film holds. “Extraordinary” (Donald Richie).
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-13
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Private Second Class
Overview: First film in a series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-15
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Female Specimen
Overview: Pinku from 1966.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Sisters and I
Overview: Two sisters, Kyoko and Hisako, run a restaurant in Kyoto. But an incident with the latter's fiancé puts their relationship, and the future of their cuisine in jeopardy...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-14
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Assassination
Overview: Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-04
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Maria of the Ant Village
Overview: Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-07
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Every Wife Cannot Stand Still
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-18
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Den nana torimono jō bijo koumori
Overview: The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima Kuze to extract five gold coins to the Shogun family in Edo, and put it into Ryujin Maru. However, Tajima, who was the chief retainer of the shogunate, said that he was a member of the board, tetsugoro Funabashi, kumiyumi no Kami ichibei, and his son, masakichi, and others, and in the middle of the night, he killed all the members with poison in the night of the storm, threw Masayoshi, who was a fellow of the city, and masakichi, who escaped from the death of poison, into the sea and sank the boat to eliminate evidence.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-29
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As the Clouds Scatter
Overview: A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-09
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A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Overview: Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-17
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