Masami Taura
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: October 06, 1932
Deathday: January 14, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Wedding Day
Overview: Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as a writer and Sakie, his daughter, finding a suitable match, while the family is struggling with the losses of war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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Early Spring
Overview: A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-29
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Kenkagarasu
Overview: Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-10
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A Japanese Tragedy
Overview: At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-17
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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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Sunny house
Overview: On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the war, and she was left alone with four children and works as a day laborer. The eldest daughter Haruko, who is already nineteen years old, works in a clothing store, the second daughter Natsuko works in a restaurant, a schoolboy Akio is studying carpentry, and even the youngest Fuyuko helps her mother by working as a nanny in a neighboring house. Nearby lives a widowed electrician Tokuji Yamada with two boys - Norio and Tatsuo. He has a widowed daughter, Sakiko, who, along with a small child, ran away from home, as she is going through hard times. At Haruko's suggestion, Mitsu and Tokuji get married, and it would seem that happiness smiles on their new family, but it turned out to be short-lived…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-02-17
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The Tattered Wings
Overview: A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-31
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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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One Step to Happiness
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-11
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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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Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
Overview: The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences of a middle-aged couple with a child! A cheerful work depicting the problems between three generations of men and women in a bright and healthy manner.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-08
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春のみづうみ
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-11
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Flying in the Air
Overview: The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-09
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The Garden of Women
Overview: A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Overview: This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-23
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Hunting Rifle
Overview: Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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北上川悲歌
Overview: Japanese "kayo" film based on the song by Tsuzuko Sugawara.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-31
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The Izu Dancer
Overview: Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-13
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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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Next Door to Happiness
Overview: The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the father leaves with another woman, returns after he is rejected, and leaves again with the family's money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-07
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Ai to chie no wa
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-11
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Mother's Ambition
Overview: The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When the residence is released to them, Mrs. Ishida wants to turn it into a Western style hotel to recoup their fortunes, but returns to Shibuya, swindled and sober.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-17
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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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A Woman's Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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Every Wife Cannot Stand Still
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-18
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Different Sons
Overview: In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden unemployment later in life causes friction among the siblings of the Akagi family. Kensuke, a salaryman at a top company, refuses to support his parents while his brother, Shoji, determines to care for them despite only working as a taxi driver. The concern over money affects Noriko's own love life as she courts a wealthy salaryman to the chagrin of her mechanic boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-12
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Aces Wild
Overview: Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother of the Otorigumi, returned from South America for the first time in 15 years. When he stepped on the soil of his native land, his first thought was to visit Otanuki Fudo, the guardian deity of the Otorigumi, but the Otorigumi had fallen and Otanuki Fudo was on the verge of eviction for the construction of an expressway. Keisuke and Joji put on the striped suits left to them by their late boss, and set out to rebuild the clan...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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