Chūzaburō Wakamiya
Also Known As: 若宮大祐, Daisuke Wakamiya, 市川進三郎, Shinzaburo Ichikawa
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: March 13, 1911
Deathday: March 23, 1982
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Hagure kigeki mandara
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-24
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Till Tomorow Comes
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-10
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Ichi ka bachi ka
Overview: The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-16
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Yume ga ippai abarenbō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-01
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Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-15
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The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
Overview: Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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The River Yokobori
Overview: Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just tried to play with her like a sweet candy, but Taka fell in love with him. One day, the father-in-law suddenly dies, and the Kawashima-ya family fortune is rapidly changing. However, the depravity of Kichisaburo does not subside...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-15
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Ôban
Overview: A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-05
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Too Young to Die
Overview: A young couple, composed of a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes hostages. Chaos ensues.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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Two Hearts in the Rain
Overview: Love story of a working-class boy and girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-27
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Strong Women, Weak Men
Overview: After a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko and becomes a hostess.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-30
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Where did Sharaku go?
Overview: Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out the true identity of Sharaku, who disappeared after about 150 portraits of actors he created came out.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-22
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若い川の流れ
Overview: The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and friendship. For the sake of the company's managing director and his wife, Misako recommends her colleague Tensuke Sone to Fusako, the managing director's daughter and best friend. Fusako and Sone meet at the executive director's Karuizawa villa, but for some reason Kensuke becomes angry when he learns that Misako is the one who recommended him...
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-14
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The Twilight Story
Overview: In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-28
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Hymn
Overview: The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-29
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My Way
Overview: Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-07
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The Funeral Racket
Overview: The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-04
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The Maid Story
Overview: Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-16
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The Cola Game
Overview: Explicit drama about a young woman who becomes involved with a group of college students who play "spin-the-bottle" and the women must make love or strip. The woman, Junko, becomes involved with Makoto, leader of the gang, becomes pregnant, has an abortion, then gets involved with an architect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-28
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The President's Son
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-27
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Attack at Daylight
Overview: A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-08
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By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Overview: Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando) can stop them, as long as he gets rid of his silly peace-loving ideals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-23
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Yanagase Blues
Overview: Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-15
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Marital Relations
Overview: The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-13
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Crazy Operation
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-24
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She Came For Love
Overview: Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a secret affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-28
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