Nobu McCarthy
Also Known As: Nobu Atsumi
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: November 13, 1934
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 06, 2002
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Pacific Heights
Overview: A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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The Geisha Boy
Overview: Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-02
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The Wash
Overview: Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who is a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the transition to leave her husband and go to this fellow.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-17
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Wake Me When It's Over
Overview: The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's just the beginning of this wacky Air Force adventure!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-10
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Five Gates to Hell
Overview: A group of nurses, doctors and nuns are taken hostage in Vietnam and sent up river to a castle hideout so they can cure an ailing war general.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-23
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Last Chance
Overview: Dreams collide in a small cafe in the California desert when a man and a woman must decide whether or not to gamble on an uncertain future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Tokyo After Dark
Overview: An American serviceman stationed in Tokyo, who's engaged to a local singer, faces both a military court-martial and a trial in the Japanese courts after an accidental shooting in which a teenager is killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition
Overview: In the middle of the desert, a solipsistic Japanese-American woman, along with her elderly and paralysed friend Barbara, runs the Desert Rose Cafe. Things liven up with the arrival of a mafia henchman (whose boss is hiding out at a nearby ranch), a battered Japanse man (who turns out to be a terrific chef, but who also triggers Barbara's memories of internment during WWII), and an attack on the mob boss' camp.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-29
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Two Loves
Overview: American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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Lost Flight
Overview: The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."
Genres: TV Movie Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-13
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Farewell to Manzanar
Overview: Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most of them U.S. born) following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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Walk Like a Dragon
Overview: California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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Gaijin: Ama-me Como Sou
Overview: In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other plans for her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-09-02
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The Karate Kid Part II
Overview: Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-year exile. There he must confront Yukie, the love of his youth, and Sato, his former best friend turned vengeful rival. Sato is bent on a fight to the death, even if it means the destruction of their village. Daniel finds his own love in Yukia's niece, Kumiko, and his own enemy in Sato's nephew, the vicious Chozen. Now, far away from the tournaments, cheering crowds and safety of home, Daniel will face his greatest challenge ever when the cost of honor is life itself.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-18
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Slaying the Dragon
Overview: A highly critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American actresses and clips from classic films such as "The Thief of Bagdad", "The Good Earth", and "The World of Suzie Wong", interspersed with Asian/feminist sociological commentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-04
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T.J. Hooker - Blood Sport
Overview: Hooker and his team become the protection detail of a Senator, and an old friend of Hooker's, after Hooker saves his life during a routine prisoner transfer in Hawaii while the Senator pushes his anti-terrorist bill.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-21
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