Ineko Arima
Also Known As: Seiko Nakanishi, Инэко Арима
Biography: Ineko Arima (born April 3, 1932) is a revered Japanese film actress. With a career spanning from 1957 to the present, Arima has graced the silver screen under the guidance of legendary directors like Yasujirō Ozu and Kon Ichikawa. Her notable filmography includes roles in Late Chrysanthemums, Black River, Tokyo Twilight, Equinox Flower, and Love Under the Crucifix, showcasing her remarkable talent. Beyond film, she has also made her mark on television, notably in NHK Taiga dramas like Ten to Chi to and Tokugawa Yoshinobu. Arima's contributions have been recognized with honors in Japan, including the Medal with Purple Ribbon (1995) and the Order of the Precious Crown (2003).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
Birthday: April 03, 1932
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Gender: Female
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Overview: After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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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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Tokyo Twilight
Overview: Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-30
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Black River
Overview: A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-23
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The Outsiders
Overview: A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Takeda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-26
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I Lived, But...
Overview: An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this). Surprisingly (or perhaps not), it focuses less on Ozu's accomplishments as a film-maker than on his impact on the lives of the people he worked with..
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-29
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Zero Focus
Overview: One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-19
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Don't Ever Die, Mama!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-26
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The Snow Flurry
Overview: After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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Love Under the Crucifix
Overview: The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a feudal prince, also a Christian who is already married, and that creates problems. Further, when the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-03
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A Matter of Valour
Overview: Chushingura has been made into a movie several times before, but this time it will be presented in a widescreen version with all natural colors and a new look. Written by Masato Ide and directed by Tatsuo Osone. This is a magnificent scroll of images that depicts on a grand scale the triumph of the Genroku era that shook the citizens of Edo, the peaceful capital of Japan. The top stars of the film, shinpa, shingeki, and kabuki worlds at the time of production were lavishly cast, and a huge budget was invested to create a large set for this highly acclaimed and moving epic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-10
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白磁の人
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-15
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Mune yori mune ni
Overview: Japanese drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-12-06
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Wedding Season
Overview: Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a number of women, including his true love, Inako Arima.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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Dreaming Awake
Overview: Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his students, Daisuke. The brash, headstrong young man is fixated on with the Second World War. He feels a sense of frustration at the irrational sacrifice of young people's lives during the war six decades earlier. Daisuke finds that he can vent his frustrations to Kimuro, who experienced the war firsthand. Kimuro's wife, Emiko, is also troubled by memories of the war. She lost a loved one in the war and has never gotten over it. And Kimuro himself also has something from the past that he has yet to face. He believes that the burden of his unresolved past will eventually be the death of him. When Daisuke's neurosis causes him to quit school, life changes for all three of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-18
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Fountainhead
Overview: A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-26
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Confessions Among Actresses
Overview: In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them has experienced a traumatic event which contributes to their particular enjoyment of becoming someone else in dramatic roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-17
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Life of Matsu the Untamed
Overview: A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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Late Chrysanthemums
Overview: With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-15
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Botchan
Overview: 1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-14
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Run, Genta, Run!
Overview: A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-22
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Farewell to Spring
Overview: Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-28
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Mother's First Love
Overview: A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-17
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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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Tokyo Profile
Overview: A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the crowded streets of Ginza.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-07-08
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His Scarlet Cloak
Overview: The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's beauty attracts numerous would-be lovers among whom is the local governor, a timid creature, who is dominated by his high-born and beautiful wife, who dresses in a scarlet battle-tunic, a sign of his family's military merit around which he fabricates fantastic tales of his prowess in war. During the traditional festival when the villagers are released from observance of all social customs and restrictions, it is permissible for any man to attempt win the favors of the one he loves. However, the timid but romantic governor goes to the length of having the miller arrested to clear the way for his seduction of Osen. But Osen fights off his advances with an old hunting gun and dashes out of the mill. Jimbei, meanwhile, has escaped from jail and dashes home to finds the governor in his bed. Convinced that his wife has been violated, he decides to take an eye for an eye.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-23
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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Overview: The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money from his employer to redeem her. Hunted criminals, the two young lovers take flight to Yamato, but, as in Chikamatsu's other domestic tragedies of love and duty (known as sewamono), they must be pursued and their passion destroyed by death. Favourite Uchida themes, such as the indenturing of a prostitute , and his characteristic emphasis on performance and theatrical artifice re-emerge here; but the daring device of having Chikamatsu appear as a character - not unlike having Shakespeare interpolated into a film adaptation of one of his plays - is just one of many surprises this remarkable film holds. “Extraordinary” (Donald Richie).
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-13
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The Lovers
Overview: Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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A Full Life
Overview: A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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When a Woman Loves
Overview: Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-24
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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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As the Clouds Scatter
Overview: A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-09
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Drunkard's Paradise
Overview: A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-04
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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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The Adorable Trio
Overview: Japanese romantic comedy film.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
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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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Closed Ward
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-04-07
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The Shrikes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
Overview: In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-03
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Love du Jour
Overview: The proprietress of a long-established sushi restaurant in Asakusa is a war widow who has raised three children. A film that lightheartedly depicts a generational battle between a mother who is anxious about the issue of an heir and her modern children.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-14
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Their Father's Wife
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-05-27
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Itsuko to sono haha
Overview: An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-02-17
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Sunflower Girl
Overview: Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When the women go on strike over the issue, Setsuko finds herself caught in the middle. When the heir to the company, Ryosuke Tanabe, proposes marriage to Setsuko, she is honored, but realizes that her real affection is for Hitachi.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-26
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The Master of Funerals
Overview: Alumni of Ibaraki High School learn that one of their classmates is killed in an accident on the tenth anniversary of their graduation, necessitating an unexpected reunion and “on-campus funeral”. They spend a strange night together, during which the secrets of his life are revealed and they rededicate themselves to his memory, with a new outlook on life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-20
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White Cliffs
Overview: 1960 Toei film.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-05
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