Terumi Niki
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Biography: Terumi Niki (二木 てるみ Niki Terumi, born May 11, 1949) is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. Since a child, she has been a member of the Japanese Theatrical Company Gekidan Wakakusa, of which she has joined in 1953. She played the young girl Otoyo in Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard (1965).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 11, 1949
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Gender: Female
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Red Beard
Overview: Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-03
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Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Nenneko Shain
Overview: A handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the high-maintenance female manager suddenly panic, and the whole company is in an uproar.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-25
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Enraptured
Overview: A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a classical theatre student in the hope that the latter will marry Senya..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-18
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Ryûri no kishi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-21
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Evil Dead Trap
Overview: A talk show hostess takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-14
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Zero-Fighters
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-04
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Hibari no san'yaku: Kei tsuya yuki no jôhenge
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-17
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The Man Behind the Scissors
Overview: The Man Behind the Scissors centers around two serial killers: mastermind Yasunaga and helper Chinatsu. The two risk being found out when the police question them as witnesses to a gruesome murder they themselves may have committed. A quirky and perplexing police thriller centered around two murderers who thrive on slicing up schoolgirls. Calculated serial psycho Yasunaga (Tokokawa) and Chinatsu (Aso), his sweet female sidekick, find themselves being questioned as witnesses to a murder when their next potential victim turns up dead...with their M.O.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-19
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Devil's Flute
Overview: Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the backdrop of wealth, this film is loaded with twists and turns and surprises at every corner.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-01-20
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Ofukuro
Overview: Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by Shizuka's desire to live together in familiar Tokyo. Mineko is the exact opposite of Eiichiro. A literary masterpiece depicting the fateful sorrow and humor of a mother and child
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-10
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Song of the Spring Pony
Overview: Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant. Bunzo loves Keiji so much that he does every thing to protect his grandson. Sonoda Keiko, a new young teacher comes to the school when a new term starts. She wants Keiji to go back to school. After two years absence from school, Keiji tries to attend the class but he cannot continue. All pupils hold an exhibition of Keiji’s paintings in the village shrine to make him happy. He is very pleased and gives his paintings to them and to Keiko, he gives a painting entitled "Spring Pony". When this picture is awarded a prize in the National Friendship Painting Compettition, it is like a new beginning for Keiji’s family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-03-22
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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
Overview: Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obsessed with her; Tamie is a hard worker who asks for money from customers to support her mother and daughter Teruko; Tane, who dreams of the day they can be together, gives money to her lover Takeda; Machiko, an apres girl, is selective about her customers in the name of romance. They are women working in the red light district at "Fujimura."
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-21
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Aokigahara
Overview: Set within the Aokigahara forest on Mount Fuji, a famous location for suicides. Follows the love and life between a man and woman.
Genres: Drama Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-12
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Tsukiyo no kasa
Overview: Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two people come together, they will talk about selling kimonos, if three people come together, they will discuss food shopping, and when four people come together, there will be laughter. Focusing on four housewives who gather at the edge of the well, it depicts the daily life of each household.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-21
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Kaachan
Overview: Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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The Ambitious
Overview: The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-14
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Policeman's Diary
Overview: Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-02-03
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Stormy Virtue
Overview: Yuri is looking forward to marrying her fiancé Minoru. However, a few days before the wedding she falls victim to his brother Takehiko, and against her will, she becomes Takehiko's wife. The day after the wedding, Yuri begins her silent revenge by not talking to her husband. She retains her love for Minoru and never gives herself to Takehiko's embrace again. She also contributes large sums of money from Takehiko's fortune to charity.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-03
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Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
Overview: Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-20
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Island of Fury
Overview: Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-08
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Mifune: The Last Samurai
Overview: An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-02
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There Goes Our Hero: After the Ball Game
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Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-12-13
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There Goes Our Hero: The Heat of the Pennant Race
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Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-05-03
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There Goes Our Hero
Overview: The Seibu Lions baseball team makes it to the next round of a baseball tournament thanks to the heroic efforts of its star player, Tabuchi, but the next stage will involve hard work and cooperation.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-11-03
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Karafuto 1945 Summer
Overview: The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces invaded Karafuto. On August 20, the postal telegraph office in Maoka suspended operations and nine of the twelve telephone operators committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide while the city was being invaded.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-17
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The Swan Elegy
Overview: One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering between two men, learns from her father that she is the child of her deceased mother and uncle. In this ambitious work, Sayuri Yoshinaga takes on the role of a girl who loves two men at the same time. The latest work from the golden duo of director Katsumi Nishikawa and actress Sayuri Yoshinaga, who created many masterpieces such as “The Izu Dancer”.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-29
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The Key
Overview: Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with her lack of passion during lovemaking. All this changes after they meet the young Mr. Kimura
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-18
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My Departure
Overview: Drama depicting two men and a woman, each with their own issues, who head for Fukui, and their maturity and rejuvenation through travel. Recently retired Nishina Kosuke goes to meet his first love, who he got to know as a pen pal 42 years ago. For Kagawa Yuika, raised by a single mother, Fukui is a place seeped with memories of her father. And, violinist Kuga Hikari is trying to break through a slump.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-27
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Overview: From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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Megumi no Sekai
Overview: A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is hurt to the core when the truth of an article is questioned.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-19
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Kanshō fujin
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-24
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