Chieko Higashiyama
Tokyo Story
as Tomi HirayamaThe elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village...
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Early Summer
as Shige MamiyaA 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
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The Idiot
as Satoko, Ayako's motherKameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved...
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Spring Dreams
as GrandmaWhen a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Otaka (Ôishi's mother)Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for...
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The Blue Sky Maiden
as Shizue HirookaYuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family...
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
as Hama, Tokusuke's wifeUtsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke,...
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Fireworks Over the Sea
as MitsuA fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains...
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Apostasy
as uncreditedIn the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a...
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The Tale of Genji
as Lady KokidenGenji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em...
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The Snow Flurry
as TomiAfter surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
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A Woman's Life
as Shizu TsutsumiOne of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle...
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The Wandering Princess
as Nao SugawaraPu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of...
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The Radish and the Carrot
as uncreditedOne day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled...
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Battle Troop
as uncreditedThree IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono)...
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
as Strange BeautyIn the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of...
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Virtue in Spades
as uncreditedAdaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.
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The Kii River
as Toyono, Hana's grandmotherEpic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and...
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The Most Valuable Madam
as uncreditedlchiro, the president of Mihara & Co., is henpecked by his wife Momoko, a clever and beautiful...
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Sing, Young People
as Okada's grandmotherA story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of...
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Aiyoku no sabaki
as uncreditedMotoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls...
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Broken Drum
as NobukoWhen the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his...
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The Angry Street
as uncreditedThe Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including...
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The Maid's Kid
as uncreditedIn order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in...
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Port of Flowers
as OkanoThe sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at...
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Sisters of Nishijin
as uncreditedA family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
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The Princess Sen
as uncreditedDuring the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with...
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
as uncreditedThe stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the...
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This Year's Love
as uncreditedHikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love...
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Sincere Heart
as IchiA young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see...
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Shisha to no kekkon
as uncreditedA case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a...
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Nippon no obaachan
as uncreditedTwo obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast...
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Shogun and His Mistress 2
as Eiho, nunIn the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It...
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When a Woman Loves
as RelativeStory of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
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The Portrait
as uncreditedThe mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an...
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Here's to the Young Lady
as Yasuko's motherA matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of...
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Women's House
as uncreditedAfter Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno,...
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The Woman’s Reflective Pool
as UnnamedTozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's...
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Ningen moyo
as uncreditedA love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.
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Marriage
as Fumie's motherIn postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in...
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Love and Death
as uncreditedYuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend,...
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The Girl I Loved
as Mother OkinA young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to...
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The Gentle Japanese
as uncreditedA survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a...
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Spring Snow
as uncreditedThe Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's...
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Carmen's Innocent Love
as MaidStrip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing...
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I Saw a Phantom Fish
as uncreditedA village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.
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The Garden of Women
as SchoolmasterA student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's...
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Itohan Monogatari
as OwasaBased on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and...
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Sweet Secret
as uncreditedA dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom...
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Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
as uncreditedBorn to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to...
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An Heir's Place
as uncreditedThis film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of...
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I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
as uncreditedA Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray...
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Oyaji Daiko
as uncreditedThe Tsuru family is a family of nine, headed by Kamejiro. Kamejiro is the president of a...
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