Setsuko Wakayama
Also Known As: 若山セツコ
Biography: Setsuko Wakayama was a Japanese actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: June 07, 1929
Deathday: May 09, 1985
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Godzilla Raids Again
Overview: Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon that killed the original, authorities attempt to lure Godzilla away from the mainland. But Anguirus soon arrives and the two monsters make their way towards Osaka as Japan braces for tragedy.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-24
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Overview: Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-14
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Enomoto's Heaven and Hell
Overview: Keita, after his death, was taken to the court of heaven as Defendant No. 1361, where his past was projected. He was formerly a favorite of the Meriken Circus troupe, yet he sinned by exposing a certain woman. During the screening, he realizes what he has done, and fate gives him a chance to redeem his sins.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-10-12
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Bengawan Solo
Overview: War film by Kon Ichikawa
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-10-19
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Love's Cheerleader
Overview: Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-06-19
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Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido
Overview: A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-08
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Four Seasons of Women
Overview: Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-02-27
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Mole Alley
Overview: 33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writing Ogata's manuscript, he would buy dorayaki as a gratuity and devour it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-05-07
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Battle of Roses
Overview: A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-10-28
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The Blue Mountains: Part I
Overview: Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-07-19
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Jirocho Rises in Fame
Overview: The rise of the famed gambler.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-12-04
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Gigantis, the Fire Monster
Overview: A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-21
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祇園物語 春怨
Overview: The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the backdrop of the city's dance festival.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-04-21
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旗本退屈男謎の伏魔殿
Overview: In Kyoto, a samurai named Boredom Otoko, Sosuke Saotome, appears and helps a woman being chased by a spy named Genshichi. Unfortunately, the woman is shot and killed. Later, Genshichi explains that the woman was a member of a band of thieves, and because she was let go once, the police officer, Genjuro Mazaki, was demoted to a desk job. Consumed by guilt, Boredom Otoko...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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Beyond the Hills
Overview: Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-07-08
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Overview: Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-22
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Snow Trail
Overview: Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-08-05
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The Angry Street
Overview: The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of the University of Tokyo, and the high life of jazzy dance halls. Sudo (Hara Yasumi) and Mori (Uno Jukichi) are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Over the course of the film, Sudo becomes involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sister, Masako (Wakayama Setsuko). In this world of bad boys and girls, Masako is the pillar of strength and moral virtue who finally enables Mori to straighten out.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-05-14
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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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A Visage to Remember
Overview: During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor Inagaki (Sugai Ichiro), at his seaside home. There he meets the professor's lovely young wife, Sachiko (Hamada Yuriko), and is unsettled by the striking resemblance she bears to his wife, who died three years earlier. Attracted to Sachiko, he does his best to hide his feelings. The couple, however, senses a deep-seated melancholy in him. Attributing it to the loss of his wife, they urge him to marry their niece, Kaoru, but he is not interested. Shortly after, Fumiko , Sachiko's older sister, realizes that Sachiko and Kawasaki have feelings for each other, but she keeps her counsel. One day Kawasaki, Sachiko, and Kaoru go boating when a storm forces them to stay overnight at a hotel. Unable to sleep, Kawasaki takes a walk along the beach where he finds Sachiko, also unable to sleep. He declares his love for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-04-04
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The Blue Mountains: Part II
Overview: Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-07-26
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Samurai Saga
Overview: Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-28
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Wakai musumetachi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-04-07
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Her Captive Gamblers
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-03
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Jirocho's Home-Coming
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-23
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Jirocho, the Hunted
Overview: A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-15
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Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Overview: Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-03
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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Overview: Jirocho the gambler hits the road.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-09
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Escape at Dawn
Overview: Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love with a prostitute named Harumi, she convinces him to desert the army and live with her.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-08
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On Wings of Love
Overview: On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film released in Tohoscope.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-13
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Swords and Brocade
Overview: A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-06-22
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Sazae-san Sequel
Overview: An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-09
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Sazae-san
Overview: An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-12
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Four Love Stories
Overview: Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-04-01
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Swift Current
Overview: The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction site in what is now Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture, and the human relationships involved in building the dam. A masterpiece by director Senkichi Taniguchi, who has worked on numerous films starring Mifune.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-23
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Yasugorō shusse
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-15
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Twice on a Certain Night
Overview: Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-08
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君死に給うことなかれ
Overview: Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his best friend who has gone off to war with his sister Reiko to marry her, but he is not ready to abandon his love for Kumiko, a nurse at his mother's hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-10-20
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Violence
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-25
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Shojohou
Overview: A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that has endured the winds and snow of love! Eisuke Taniguchi (Shimizu), president of Towa Electric Works, has three beautiful daughters. The eldest, Kozue (Todoroki), is an intelligent and dynamic modern girl, the second, Yoko (Otowa), is a modest girl with Japanese tastes, and the third, Hanayo (Wakayama), is a mischievous girl who has not yet lost her schoolgirl temperament. All three have feelings for Kiichiro Matsuzaki (Uehara), the president of a magazine company. He was married to Kozue, the eldest daughter, by agreement between their parents, but it was Yoko whom he loved, so he asked her to end her engagement to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-12-02
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