Reikō Tani
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 15, 1902
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Mr. Thank You
Overview: In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-02-27
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A Story of Floating Weeds
Overview: An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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Mother's Love Letter
Overview: Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-04-18
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Tokyo Chorus
Overview: In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-08-15
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Passing Fancy
Overview: In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take her in.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-09-07
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Surging Waves
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Utsukushiki Rinjin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-05-23
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Dragnet Girl
Overview: A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-04-27
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The Strength of a Moustache
Overview: Kato's splendid mustache is an obstacle when it comes to finding a job. However, he gets a job as a security guard at a construction site. The president of the construction company tries to grow a mustache like Kato's and, failing, orders Kato to shave off his. Considered a lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1931-10-16
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Street Without End
Overview: Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-04-26
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A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
Overview: Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-09-21
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The Dancing Girl of Izu
Overview: "The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eventually has to part with the family after spending memorable time together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-02-01
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Burden of Life
Overview: A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-12-10
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The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
Overview: This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict. 'Virtually plotless, and feeling more like comic sketches than fully developed stories,' writes Arthur Nolletti, Jr, 'these light comedies, or farces, take a wholly trivial matter (often a socially embarrassing situation) and use it as a springboard for a succession of gags.' Much of the films' distinction comes from the wit of Gosho's direction, the imaginative use of the new sound technology and the charm of the acting, particularly of the heroines (Kinuyo Tanaka in Bride; Hiroko Kawasaki in Groom). Yet in both films, Gosho finds room for some shrewd observation of character and environment, subtly exploring the values and assumptions of the suburban petit bourgeoisie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-01-14
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Don't Tell Your Wife About It
Overview: A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive lace handkerchief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-05-20
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Lady Doctor Kinuyo
Overview: Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is ancestral. Although Kinuyo and Yasuo love each other, they have different thoughts toward treatments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-04-29
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Song of the Flower Basket
Overview: Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-01-14
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The New Road: Akemi
Overview: The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told from the perspective of Akemi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-11-30
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Overview: After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-03-01
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Every-Night Dreams
Overview: In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-06-08
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There Was a Father
Overview: Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Children in the Wind
Overview: On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-11-11
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Spring Comes from the Ladies
Overview: A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-01-29
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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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Love
Overview: Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son. The sister Machiko is the essential link that will allow everyone to apologize to each other and achieve reconciliation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-11-09
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If You Throw This Child Away
Overview: If you throw this child away
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-08-08
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