Emiko Azuma
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Emiko Azuma (東 恵美子; 19 October 1924 - 8 January 2010) was a Japanese actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: October 19, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 08, 2010
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Funeral Parade of Roses
Overview: In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware of another kind of history between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-09-13
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A Modern Samurai Village
Overview: Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had imagined is in a slum area called Samurai Village, a little settlement, where people live from hand to mouth. To make things worse, a group of vagrants descends on the already crowded ragpickers' village. The sight depresses and saddens little Yumi, but when her father gives up drinking, it makes up for everything in her eyes, and when he runs past liquor shops to avoid temptation, Yumi's laughter rings out merrily again. A unique social drama depicting the growth of a new generation that confronts the world of adults full of vanity in the image of a girl living in poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-24
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Phoenix
Overview: Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attracting a crowded audience.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-14
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The Wild Sea
Overview: Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But the outbreak of violence by radical students and blockade of classrooms make studying impossible and Yoji goes home. Fortunately, he meets Katsuyuki Shinoda, a childhood friend, who works on a whaling vessel. Yoji decides to join him and rediscover a meaning in life. But finding sidework on a whaler is not so easy and Ogaki, a veteran harpooner, curtly turns him down. But finally, deeply touched by Yoji's earnestness, Ogaki reluctantly agrees to take him with them. Rules are very strict, for even one slight slip-up may jeopardize the safety of the entire ship. For a long time, it seems like a living hell, but with patience and courage, he begins to learn the ropes. And the day they sight their first whale, Yoji comes into his own and finds the real meaning of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-15
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君恋し
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-03
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Overview: An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-29
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Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
Overview: First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-26
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Sixteen years old
Overview: Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and lent it to her only Mikayo. Senko was somehow envious of her flashy life... In a tragedy with a girl living in the base as the main character, Katsumi Miki of "Life like a weed" adapted the original story of Muraji Uchiki and directed by Eisuke Takizawa of "Ajisai no Uta".
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-01
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Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
Overview: East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the name suggests. Daikichi was a driver working for the East-West transportation company, and Rokuheita served as his assistant. The Daikichi truck, which was packed with luggage today, has left for its destination. And soon after Daikichi's truck left, Rokuheita heard a cat meowing from behind, so Daikichi stopped the car and turned to check the cargo, and there in a large basket he saw a crying baby...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-29
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Facing to the Clouds
Overview: A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Nakafuji. Reiko's father was a member of the Diet who was assassinated six years ago. Through Reiko, Takema joins Tsūkai-kai, a group of young people who respect her late father's political ideas. With the assistance of Tsukai-kai, Takema eventually uncovers the political scandal related to postwar compensation which led to the murder of Reiko's father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-01
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快傑耶茶坊
Overview: 1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-18
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Japan's Don
Overview: A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-01-22
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Unripe Fruit
Overview: A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-04
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Police Precinct: Nothing Left At The Scene
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-15
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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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Northern City
Overview: Nikkatsu youth masterpiece, which celebrates the love and friendship of young people who have blossomed in a beautiful northern spring with a lot of young dreams. Based on the novel "Memory of Snow" written by Takeo Tomishima.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-20
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Fighting Delinquents
Overview: This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an escalating family feud that ultimately leads to tragedy. Lean, mean, and stylish as always, this tale of youth-gone-wild is both vibrant and touching. Suzuki contrasts tranquil glimpses of traditional regional life with the emergence of the new rock 'n' roll youth culture and the greed and seething cynicism of encroaching Westernism. Also released under the title "Go To Hell, Hoodlums!", this is a melodrama as colorful, shocking, and exhilarating as one would come to expect from Japan's master filmmaker.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-23
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Across a Gold Prairie
Overview: Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning, he wakes up believing himself to be twenty again. In his mind, he has become the youthful young man that he once was. However, reality fails to keep up with his illusion, and everything around him seems to be quite different from what he is used to. So, he decides that he is simply dreaming. As his reality becomes his dream, his unhappy world turns into a life enriched with happiness and expectations for the future. Ayumu is now enjoying his life to the full again.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-10-31
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Fly Boys, Fly!
Overview: Six young pilots who all volunteered to be Kami-kaze or suicide pilots.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-23
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Three Wild Cats
Overview: Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unbridled seduction strategies.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-07
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Chivalrous Pride
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-09-13
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Monument to the Girl's Corps
Overview: In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa Normal School for women. Nothing seemed the least bit out of the ordinary, as Kazuko and her friends enjoyed a day of sports. A year later the war takes a devastating turn, as US forces plan an amphibious attack known as "Operation Iceberg" on the Ryukyu island.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-09-21
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Smashing the 0-Line
Overview: Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-25
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The Possessed
Overview: Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and do anything at all. Shinzo hated Oshima, and he made love with Sawa.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-16
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Night Drum
Overview: Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially greeted by the effusive welcome of his family, spiteful whispers also reach his ear about an adulterous affair carried on, in his long absence, between his wife and a famous drummer. With Hikokuro’s honor imperiled by rumor, his family insists on a formal investigation into the veracity of the gossip. Through the combined testimony of many witnesses, a tale unwinds around the visits of a traveling musician hired to tutor the family heir, the spurned attentions of the man who started the rumor, and the ultimate truth behind the accusations. The conclusion of events prove as much an indictment of bushidō as it is of the reluctant parties involved. Adapted from a 1706 play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon and based on a true case.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-15
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The Song of the Season
Overview: A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-22
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Toki no kagayaki
Overview: Yuka came to work as an intern nurse at a hospital and she met Shunichi again. They were school friends, and she liked him. But, she found out that Shunichi had an osteosarcoma.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-03-18
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Overview: After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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Tokyo Knights
Overview: A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
Overview: An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-18
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
Overview: The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-09
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The Black Scar
Overview: A yakuza frames another yakuza who goes to jail for 5 years. When he is released he goes to seek revenge only to fall in love with the daughter of the man who framed him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-10
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Four Young Sisters
Overview: Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she loved because he, just like her father is always away from home. But directly after her marriage to another young man, her sister runs after the former boy-friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-01
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Shadow of Love
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-05
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The Sweet Interns
Overview: The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-03
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Kagero-za
Overview: A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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Burden of Love
Overview: The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after the other. - Nikkatsu
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-18
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Rebellion of Japan
Overview: Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultimately becoming a right-wing fundamentalist revolutionary. She marries another man, one totally dedicated to the rigorous practices of Noh theatre, in an arranged marriage, but the bond that connects her with Tate is too strong.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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The Incorrigible
Overview: Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-21
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The Glorious Days
Overview: The Glorious Days
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-14
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Tomo o okuru uta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-25
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The Fox With Nine Tails
Overview: Tobimaru is the young emperor of Japan. He meets a mysterious woman named Tomamo. After successfully seducing Tobimaru, she brings great misfortune onto the land. Tobimaru soon discovers that Tomamo is actually a kitsune, and now has the task to unmask and kill her to save his land. (currently a lost media)
Genres: Animation Adventure Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-19
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Suzume Iro Doki
Overview: The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and only handles divorce settlements. She spends her days in a state of despondency, but when her estranged husband and daughter disappear, she embarks on a search, partly out of ambition.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
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Afternoon When Flowers Fell
Overview: A widowed restaurateur is faced with scandal after discovering her late husband had a child out of wedlock. Hearing that two criminals had attempted to take over the restaurant from her late husband, she hires her late husband's best friend, a private detective, to investigate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-07
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Shiroi natsu
Overview: Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while trembling!! Set in a simple rural town's post office, this youthfully bright and humorous story depicts the intricacies of life experienced by a rookie young postal worker. Depicting the subtle intricacies of life experienced by a young protagonist in a simple post office setting. This bright and humorous story evokes a heartfelt sense of empathy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-23
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Kanshō fujin
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-24
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Autumn Interlude
Overview: The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to marry a stranger by her parent. She ran away from her hometown and arrived at Tokyo in search of her love one. War erupted then and Tatsurou was summoned to service. As be set foot on a snow-capped mountain before his imminent departure, they promised to each other to press on until they meet again. But, soon she was fallen very ill to TB
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-07-31
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Distant Love
Overview: A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-27
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The School of Flesh
Overview: A love story about a former noblewoman who greedily enjoys love after breaking up with her unhappy marriage after the war, in pursuit of a wild and pure Japanese man. Three gorgeous 39-year-old single women who are in the same situation get excited about each other’s love affairs. Adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel, with the same title. It's also related to the movie "L'École de la Chair" from 1998, which also is an adaptation of the book and Japanese movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-14
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再会・殺意の方程式
Overview: One day, Mio, a reporter, is shown a manuscript for a contest by Kuribayashi, the editor-in-chief. The manuscript, which she is told will likely make it to the final round, is that of Kashiwagi, who was supposed to marry Kuribayashi's daughter. Hearing the familiar name, Mio learns that Kashiwagi is now married to the daughter of a top company and holds a high position. The two are nostalgic about their reunion, but soon after, a series of murders occur. Mio investigates the case to prove Kashiwagi's innocence, even though he was suspected of murder.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-06
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Yoru no mesu - Hana no inochi
Overview: The film depicts the resilient life of the daughter of a Kyushu boss who becomes a Ginza hostess with Shinichi Mori singing in the background.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-18
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