Miyuki Kuwano
Also Known As: Миюки Кувано
Biography: Miyuki Kuwano (桑野美雪) was born on July 17, 1942 in Yokohama, Japan. She is an actress, known for Three Outlaw Samurai (1964), Equinox Flower (1958) and Red Beard (1965). She is the daughter of Michiko Kuwano.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: July 17, 1942
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Female
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Wild Spirit
Overview: It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally helped a man named Hanji from the Kurokane family and was received by the family as a guest. And soon Eijiro is involved in a showdown between the yakuza families.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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Red Beard
Overview: Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-03
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Late Autumn
Overview: A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-13
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Umineko ga tonde
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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Pineapple Butai
Overview: The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-27
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Equinox Flower
Overview: Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-07
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Kawa wa nagareru
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-03
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Zoku aizen katsura
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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Flower in a Storm
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-01
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A Roaring Trade
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Secret Love
Overview: A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko Awaji.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-18
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Three Outlaw Samurai
Overview: Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-13
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Cruel Story of Youth
Overview: A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-03
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Our Failures
Overview: Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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Samurai Desperadoes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-27
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A Fallen Woman
Overview: The daughter of a Prime Minister turns down the proposal of a young teacher when she falls for the wrong man. Despite the continual degradation by the man she loves, she is unwilling to leave her awful relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-28
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Love New and Old
Overview: A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-11
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At the Side of the Bridge
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
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Kyū-chan ondo
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
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Love's Family Tree
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-22
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Kyūjin ryokō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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あらくれ荒野
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-11
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At the Side of the Bridge 2
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Kobushi no hana no sakukoro
Overview: Japanese drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-24
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When It Rains, It Pours
Overview: Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-06-11
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Love and the Shop Curtain
Overview: Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 Tokyo Olympics. Maki, the son of the owner of the Benten Hotel, likes Yuri and wants to get closer to her. So, he asks Milton, an American exchange student, to stay at her inn so he can get closer to her. But Yuri is in love with Shin, a cook at her inn. And although Shin likes her too, the two are constantly bickering. Complicating matters more, is that every other available girl also likes Shin including Chikako, who lives at his boarding house, and Chikoma, who is a geisha. One day when Yuri gets a phone call, she suspects that her mother might be having an affair. But it turns out that Otami reunited with her old flame Tomo, who also used to work as a chef at the inn but left because he feared that their class backgrounds were too different. When Shin learns that Yuri is going to marry...will history repeat itself?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-28
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Night and Fog in Japan
Overview: Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-09
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Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-30
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Escape from Japan
Overview: As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a robbery.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-03
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Love and Desire in the Night Mist
Overview: A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-01
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Tomorrow's Sun
Overview: A playful short film made in the style of a trailer for a fictional feature film that seems to be a spoof of films that were popular in Japan at the time.
Genres: Romance Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-13
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Hikkoshi yatsure
Overview: Manao Horiuchi movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-09
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With Wife, Children, and Friends
Overview: Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes to Tokyo in 1926 from faraway Kagoshima to join the Tokyo police force. His closest friend is Nihei, a farmer's son from Tohoku who becomes the steadying influence on headstrong Henmi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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The Shape of Night
Overview: Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing demeanor and constant demands for money lead Yoshie down a dark path.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-01
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Sword of Vision
Overview: Yagyu Jubei proves his skills in this early adventure film.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-04
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Incidental Murders
Overview: The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and Sanko are unaware that Tatsuko is the heiress to a fortune. Two strong-arm brothers, Kosaka and Takeshi, learn of her identity and join the gang in an effort to shake down the tycoon for ten million yen. Upon joining forces, their first move is to rid themselves of the driver whose identity is known to the police because of a cap which he left behind at the scene of the crime. Upon obtaining the ransom money, the brothers murder the two kidnappers and go to the port city of Kobe. The younger brother, Takeshi, has fallen in love with the prisoner and refuses to allow her to be killed and they take her with them from one hideout to another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-22
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Towering Waves
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-30
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Cash Calls Hell
Overview: Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assassinate three strangers given to him on a list. However, upon meeting his first potential victim, Oida has second thoughts. Yet, even as he tries to back out, the body count starts climbing. Oida must now try to alert the people on his list of their impending danger, and find out why they are being targeted in the first place.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-15
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King of the Highway
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-18
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High Teen
Overview: Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when put in charge of the third year class C, reputed to be the most incorrigible in the whole school, he is faced with surly opposition from the start. However, Terasaki perseveres. His greatest headaches are three students ... Sanae, who develops a "crush" on him, Nakanishi, who seeks to forget his unhappy home life in rugby, and Nire his pal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-26
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Tokyo Omnibus
Overview: The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-30
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The Hidden Treasure
Overview: Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-05
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The Radish and the Carrot
Overview: One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-03
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Sweet Sweat
Overview: This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to keep her family together. Her 17-year-old daughter Takeko becomes increasingly upset by her mother's constant drinking and yakuza boyfriend, and runs away from home. Kyo's performance was highly praised.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-19
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Hungry Soul
Overview: Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-31
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Farewell to Summer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-19
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Aozora yoitsu mademo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-05-05
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Hungry Soul, Part II
Overview: A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-28
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A Case of Honor
Overview: The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-20
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The Honest Fool
Overview: Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is married, but he goes on a mission to please her, and is blinded. Then her husband dies and she remarries before Yasugoro can confess his love.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-15
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Mother Country
Overview: In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-29
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Girls Behind the Bars
Overview: Story of girls in a Japanese reform school.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-04
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Melody of Crime
Overview: Pro boxer Aoshima Toru is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given three months to live. He uses his prize money to pay the medical expenses for a young boy with polio. But when Toru learns from his fiancee Itsuko that his own mother has died, things take a turn for the worse.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-15
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At the Side of the Bridge 3
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-06
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At the Side of the Bridge 4
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-27
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駿河遊侠伝 度胸がらす
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-21
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Inochi hateru hi made
Overview: 1966 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-26
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Netsuai sha
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-29
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Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
Overview: A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-13
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The Girl Who Creates Tomorrow
Overview: A story set in a small harmonica factory in Kita-Senju that celebrates the love lives of young workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-07
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Koi no gashū
Overview: Taiji (Kawazu Yusuke), who works at Noble Cosmetics, wants to marry his girlfriend Tomie (Kuwano Miyuki), but is having a hard time saving up the money. On a night train, he casually takes a photo of a middle-aged man and a young woman sleeping close together in seats diagonally opposite each other. In reality, the man is Aizawa (Sano Shuji), the section chief at the government agency where Tomie works. Tomie tells Taiji that she is pregnant and wants them to get married soon, so Taiji sends Aizawa the same photo. This is to ask him to buy it...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-21
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