Sayoko Makino
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: April 29, 1958
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Down with The Big Boss
Overview: In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-24
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Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Overview: Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives off of the money earned by his girlfriend and is more interested in trying to look cool than anything else. He meets Yumeko (Chikako Aoyama), an innocent but dangerous narcoleptic runaway, after she steals his car, and she soon moves in with him. Following the assassination of a high-ranking member by the Kazama Family, Junko is called on to be the lookout while the family gets revenge. However, the other men quickly "zoom", or escape from their duty, leaving the task to Junko. Will he take out Kazama, or will he zoom?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-11
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Overview: During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living National Treasure ceramist. At his home, Tora-san makes a good impression on the old man's maid, who apparently falls in love with Tora-san.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-07
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Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Overview: When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his family that he plans to marry her. His plans are foiled when the geisha informs Tora-san that she is engaged.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-08
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Tora-san, My Uncle
Overview: Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-27
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Tora-san's Song of Love
Overview: Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-06
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
Overview: Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking he's found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest's divorced daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-28
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Overview: In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-08-04
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
Overview: In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman's daughter, but winds up acting as a go-between for her and a young law student.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-03
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Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Overview: Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san to help find him, he falls in love with her, and secretly hopes the husband will not be found.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-12-28
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
Overview: Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in work. Tora-san follows her to Shikinejima, and attempts to bring her back to her home. In doing so he encounters a school-reunion group who are traveling to meet their elementary school teacher, which is a reference to the film Twenty-Four Eyes by Keisuke Kinoshita. Tora-san joins them and falls in love with the teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-28
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Overview: During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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Tora-san Goes North
Overview: When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-15
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
Overview: A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as “daddy”.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-26
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Overview: In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-24
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Overview: During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-08-05
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