Toshimasa Inoue
Also Known As: 井上敏政
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Gender: Other
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Five Scouts
Overview: An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A company commander calls on five men. They are to reconnoiter, but on their way they are attacked. Only four of them return. While his companions mourn the fifth straggles back. Soon after comes the order to move out for a general attack. The men know that this time there will be no returning." (Donald Richie)
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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The Tiger of Malaya
Overview: A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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A Pebble by the Wayside
Overview: Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home. An intelligent teacher wants to send him to middle school, but instead the father apprentices him to a clothing store to which he is in debt. The mother dies and the boy is forced to quit work when his father insults the store owner. Later the boy goes to Tokyo, but only to continue his hardships. First he is forced to do a maid's job at a boarding house and later is used by an old woman to steal at funerals. Finally he is rescued by the teacher, whom he meets in Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-09-21
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Horror of the Fifth Columnist
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-04-16
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History - Part I
Overview: History film directed by Tomu Uchida.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-05-15
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Explosion!
Overview: "Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama which is too bizarre to be serious propaganda. [The plot revolves around a public contribution campaign to buy airplanes.] The mayor's aviator son promises to fly over the village in salute, and much of the narrative concerns the preparations for this great event. Tasaka throws in a few songs, some village humor and satire, and tremendous camera mobility, finally wringing every possible effect from his climax." John Gillett, British Film Institute
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-02-15
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Wide and Fertile Land
Overview: In a village in Manchuria, a group of Japanese settlers struggle against the elements to create wet rice paddies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-02-01
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