Chieko Baisho
Chieko Baisho (倍賞 千恵子, Baishō Chieko, born June 29, 1941) is a Japanese actress and singer. In Japan, she is well known for her performance as Sakura in the "Otoko wa Tsurai yo" series from 1969 until 1995. In addition, she has acted in many films directed by Yōji Yamada since the 1960s. She won the award for best actress at the 5th Hochi Film Award for "A Distant Cry from Spring".
Howl's Moving Castle
as Sophie (voice)Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and...
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Weathering with You
as Fumi Tachibana (voice)The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to...
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Plan 75
as Michi TsunotaniIn a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be...
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The Hidden Blade
as Mrs. KatagiriSet in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his...
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Jungle Emperor Leo
as Lyre (voice)Tezuka Osamu's most famous work "Jungle Emperor Leo" has been made into an animated version a...
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Kabei: Our Mother
as Hatsuko NogamiSet in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father,...
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
as SakuraTorajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his...
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A Distant Cry from Spring
as Tamiko KazamiThe quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the...
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
as SakuraKuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
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The Yellow Handkerchief
as Mitsue ShimaThe story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about...
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Sing, Young People
as Yuko NakajimaA story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of...
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Station
as Michio KirikoA detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in...
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
as SakuraAfter winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to...
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The Little House
as Taki NunomiyaFollowing the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers,...
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It's Tough Being a Man
as SakuraTora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but...
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
as SakuraTora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan...
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Tora-san's Lullaby
as SakuraAfter Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved...
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Tora-san, the Intellectual
as SakuraTora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years...
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
as SakuraDuring his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers...
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Unico in the Island of Magic
as The West Wind (voice)A young unicorn named Unico must fight an evil magician and save everyone who's trapped under...
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Tora-san Goes North
as SakuraWhen his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian...
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Talk of the Town Tora-san
as SakuraAfter a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect...
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The Lovable Tramp
as Aiko KazamiSaotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship...
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Honokaa Boy
as BeeLeo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with...
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461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son
as Natsuko SuzumotoKazuki Suzumoto is divorced and he lives with his 15-year-old son Kouki. Kouki is in a...
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Tora-san's Love in Osaka
as SakuraWhen his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to...
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
as SakuraTraveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
as SakuraTora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes...
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Tora-san Makes Excuses
as uncreditedTora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi...
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The Fantastic Adventures of Unico
as The West Wind (voice)When Unico, a young unicorn, is banished from his family by a pantheon of manipulative gods, his...
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A Heartful of Love
as Tomoe KakutaHiroshi, a 30 year-old businessman, has traveled back in time 20 years. He encounters Kazumi, a...
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
as SakuraIn his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he...
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Let's Have A Dream
as AikoA Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but...
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Samurai from Nowhere
as ChigusaMisawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of...
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The Rainbow Seeker 2
as uncreditedSequel to The Rainbow Seeker where Ryo meets Katsu on a small island in the south of Japan....
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Tora-san's Lovesick
as SakuraAfter Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs...
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The Rainbow Seeker
as uncreditedA young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in...
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I, the Executioner
as HarukoPolice investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage...
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Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
as Sakura Suwa (Torajiro's sister)The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the...
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Tora-san, My Uncle
as SakuraTora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents...
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Hope and Pain
as uncreditedThe adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
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Glory on the Summit
as uncreditedA treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the...
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
as SakuraTora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account,...
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Where Spring Comes Late
as TamikoThe story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a...
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Tora-san's Song of Love
as SakuraTora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's...
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
as SakuraTora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late...
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
as SakuraDuring his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to...
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The River Yokobori
as TakaTaka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya,...
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
as SakuraIn Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san...
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Tora-san's Love Call
as SakuraTaking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
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Tora-san's Forbidden Love
as SakuraTora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who...
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
as SakuraOn the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
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The Greatest Challenge of All
as uncreditedAfter an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many...
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The Sunshine Girl
as uncreditedA young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
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Tora-san, the Expert
as SakuraTora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets...
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Our Marriage
as Saeko HibinoWhen two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
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Only the Cat Knows
as YukikoMasaru and Yukiko have been married 44 years. They have three children who live independently...
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
as SakuraIn Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself....
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Dolls floating down the river
as FumikoA touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of...
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Tora-san's Runaway
as SakuraAfter an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro...
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Foster Daddy, Tora!
as SakuraAfter a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her...
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
as SakuraWhen Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor...
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Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
as SakuraAfter a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
as SakuraTora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased...
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Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
as uncreditedDirector Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio...
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
as SakuraTora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984),...
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Tora-san Takes a Vacation
as SakuraMitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for...
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Tora-san to the Rescue
as SakuraTora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged...
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Ballad of a Workman
as Miyoko Ishikawa, Toshiyuki's girlfriendA demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to...
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
as SakuraDuring his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully...
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Tora-san Confesses
as SakuraWhen Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a...
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Tracing the Gray Summer
as Sonia (voice)Animated film about the Seveso disaster, which took place north of Milan, Italy in 1976.
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Song of Love
as Haruko TachibanaThe life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.
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Home from the Sea
as Tamiko IshizakiOn a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting...
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Two Iida
as Michi AizawaBased on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The...
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Stage-Struck Tora-san
as SakuraTora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an...
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Tora-san's Pure Love
as SakuraWhen Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on...
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A Trap
as Kiriko YanagidaWhen her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman...
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The Village
as Hideko KonoThis appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on...
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Karate Cop 2
as uncreditedKarate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple...
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Tora-san's Matchmaker
as SakuraAfter failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush...
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
as SakuraWhen cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by...
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It All Began When I Met You
as KotokoSix love stories following the love lives of ten different people.
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Tora-san's Promise
as SakuraTora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he...
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Tora-san's Easy Advice
as SakuraMitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to...
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Zatoichi: The Last
as MitsuA blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back...
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Tora-san Loves an Artist
as SakuraTora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he...
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My Voiceless Friends
as uncreditedA man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country...
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Tokyo Newcomer
as Old WomanA young Chinese Go board game player arrives in Japan for training. He doesn't speak Japanese...
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Gamblers' Luck
as uncreditedA group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of...
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
as SakuraA playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy...
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Shichinin no keiji
as Miyoko SekiguchiMiyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are...
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Women Who Do Not Divorce
as uncreditedKeiichi (Kenichi Hagiwara) is a weather man. He gets involved with two married women, Yoshiko...
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
as SakuraWhile Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young...
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Drunkard's Paradise
as uncreditedA father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving...
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Tora-san, the Matchmaker
as SakuraTora-san helps out a runaway bride.
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
as SakuraTora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her...
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Vagabond Schemer
as TsuruyoThe return of a man to Japan from Borneo creates chaos in a village.
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Arc
as RinaSet in the near future, Rina lives a wandering life and she meets Ema. Ema becomes a mentor for...
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Lover's Duet
as Eiko TakayamaA melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of...
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The Soundless Cry
as uncreditedShinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His...
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Thousand Cranes
as uncreditedApril 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
as Hisako Ōishi (voice)TV adaptation of the novel "Twenty-Four Eyes", combining animation with a few live-action scenes.
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Mama, I Need You!
as uncreditedAfter finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother...
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The Million Dollar Pursuit
as MissBurned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag...
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The Image of Mother
as OshinoA resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a...
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As the Clouds Scatter
as uncreditedA provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he...
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55th anniversary performance of Tora-San: Rakugo, Talk and Tora Jiro Returns
as uncreditedThis special performance was held to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the release of the film...
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Oh, My Comrade!
as uncreditedFukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo....
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Topsy-Turvy Journey
as uncreditedA drama from director Masaharu Segawa.
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
as SakuraCarrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While...
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The Sun of Love and Tears
as Kazumi KitamuraThe golden duo of Yukio Hashi and Chieko Baisho. A film rich in a variety of songs, dances and...
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Our Happiness Alone
as Yoshiko SakawaMototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother,...
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The Night We Danced
as uncreditedFollows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.
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In Broad Daylight
as Yoshiko KoshiishiAfter his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old...
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Our Wonderful Years
as FumikoThe story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from th 1920's to the 1960's.
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Dislikes
as uncreditedAn old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has...
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Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie
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Suzuran
as Moe Tokiwa / Moe HidakaIn 1924, a time when both steam engine trains and early Showa Era's first train stations are...
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Mansaku no hana
as 伊吹絹代The story follows the Nakamori family in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, where half of the year is...
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Older brother
as TokoThe series tells about the life of construction foreman Eiji and his sister. Both have a love...
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Kōfuku Sōdan
as uncreditedA light-hearted comedy about love, fortune telling and songs of life that begins when a couple...
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