Chieko Nakakita
Chieko Nakakita was a Japanese actress known for her roles in the films of Akira Kurosawa and Mikio Naruse. She was married to Toho producer Tomoyuki Tanaka.
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as TomokoKeiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow....
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No Regrets for Our Youth
as LadyOver more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as...
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One Wonderful Sunday
as MasakoYuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on...
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Sound of the Mountain
as Aihara FusakoAn ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely...
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The Quiet Duel
as Takiko NakadaA young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the...
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Yearning
as Mrs. KagaWar widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many...
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Floating Clouds
as Kuniko TomiokaA married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young...
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Repast
as Keiko YamakitaMichiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
as Mrs. Kane (uncredited)Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two...
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Drunken Angel
as MiyoDoctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he...
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47 Ronin
as uncreditedAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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Those Who Make Tomorrow
as Yoshiko Okamoto, Elder SisterTwo sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become...
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Flowing
as YonekoOtsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter...
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The Lost Alibi
as Kuniko IshinoSuspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised...
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Early Spring
as Sakae TominagaA young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...
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The Three Treasures
as TenazuchiThe legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to...
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The Lovable Tramp
as Kinuko SaotomeSaotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship...
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Farewell Rabaul
as MichiyoA squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they...
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The Last War
as OharuA Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the...
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Life of a Country Doctor
as uncreditedA skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and...
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Untamed Woman
as Osuzu, Oshima's older sisterA woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a...
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Pretty Devil Yoko
as Yoko's motherEasily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in...
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Desperado Outpost
as uncreditedWhen Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
as uncreditedConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook...
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Lightning
as RitsuThe story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Kiku TotsukaSanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million...
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The Most Beautiful
as Student worker (uncredited)The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during...
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Mother
as Noriko KuriharaA teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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A Whistle in My Heart
as uncreditedThe story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the...
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Daredevil in the Castle
as Kyoku of YaeDuring the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family...
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White Beast
as uncreditedThe critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring...
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Blood on the Sea
as uncreditedFour fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.
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Lord for a Night
as uncreditedLord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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The Thin Line
as uncreditedTashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in...
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Girls of the Night
as Yoshi TakagiIn the late 1950's prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this...
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Love Letter
as MaryA sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love...
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Get 'em All
as NobuGang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother...
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Three Women of the North
as uncreditedThe story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town....
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Little Peach
as SumikoAnzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her...
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Incident at Blood Pass
as uncreditedIn the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait....
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
as Katsuko, Yoshiko's sisterThree humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
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Blood and Diamonds
as uncreditedA group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
as uncreditedOnce an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing...
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Husband and Wife
as Mrs. AkamatsuA married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The...
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Sudden Rain
as Toki KurobayashiA husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
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Nippon Irresponsible Guy
as uncreditedSequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".
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Forbidden Affair
as uncreditedRyô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student...
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Tora-san's Song of Love
as HisakoTora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's...
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Samurai Saga
as (uncredited)Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an...
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Moment of Terror
as uncreditedWhen an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the...
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Love Never Fails
as uncreditedTwo youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant...
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Wife
as Eiko MatsuyamaTen years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success,...
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A Woman's Life
as uncreditedA woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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The Weed of Crime
as uncreditedToho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as NatsukoThis drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in...
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Procurer of Hell
as Mineko ItamiTobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells...
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The Vampire Moth
as Tsuruko HigetaThe story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.
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A Wife's Heart
as KaoruKiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly...
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The Ditch
as uncreditedToku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He...
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The Other Woman
as Toshiko FuruyaIn "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have...
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An Innocent Witch
as uncreditedAyako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her...
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Eleven High School Girls
as uncreditedWith his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning...
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Happy Go-Lucky
as Sakiko, the landladyAn irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.
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Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
as uncreditedA timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
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The Storm
as uncreditedA widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
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Once More
as KimuraA romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a...
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Farewell, My Beloved
as uncreditedDuring the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko...
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Women Doing Time
as uncreditedPart 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
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Happiness of Us Alone
as uncreditedThe story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a...
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Red-Light Bases
as HarueStory about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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Omatsuri hanjiro
as uncreditedEvery year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a...
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Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie
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Adolescence Part II
as Kayo KonishiA story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
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Ashita Koso
as たつThe 8th NHK Asadora. Starring Yumiko Fujita in a family drama. The first Asadora filmed in color.
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