Shizuko Hoshi
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Japan
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Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Female
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M. Butterfly
Overview: In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Overview: The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in the United States.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-06
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Dangerous Company
Overview: The true story of Ray Johnson, a convict who spent most of his life in and out of prison until he finally decided to turn his life around.
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-09
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My Husband Is Missing
Overview: A young wife journeys to North Vietnam in an effort to find her husband, an American flier reported missing in action, and is joined by a cynical Canadian correspondent on the trail of a human interest story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-05
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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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Charlotte Sometimes
Overview: Michael, a young mechanic, is forced to choose between a daring tryst with an alluring stranger and the habitual comfort of his bittersweet obsession: his beautiful young roommate.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-11
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Wataridori: Birds of Passage
Overview: This important tribute to the issei (first generation Japanese Americans) integrates the stories of three people who describe a collective history through their personal memories.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Visas and Virtue
Overview: Europe, 1940. For thousands of Jews, a Japanese diplomat and his wife defy Tokyo and the Nazis, and offer visas, for life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-01
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The Last Ninja
Overview: A successful art dealer is sought out by law enforcement after terrorists take some scientists hostage. Finding no possible solution, a law enforcement agent approaches the dealer (Beck). Mr. Cosmo, the agent believes the dealer to be linked to the ninja responsible for tracking down criminals and serving them justice. Mr. Cosmo hopes that the ninja's seemingly supernatural skills will remedy this impossible hostage situation.
Genres: TV Movie Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-07
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Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Overview: The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola Gay at Hiroshima, during World War II.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-06
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Baby Sister
Overview: Sultry college dropout Annie Burroughs moves in with her older sister Marsha and proceeds to break up the relationship between Marsha and her live-in boyfriend David Mitchell so Annie can begin a sensuous love affair and have David all for herself.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-06
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Overview: In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-06
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Come See the Paradise
Overview: In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-17
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Sylvester
Overview: Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn him into an Olympic jumping champion.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-15
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