Chieko Naniwa
Japanese actress.
Throne of Blood
as Old Ghost WomanReturning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who...
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The Crucified Lovers
as OkôIn 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is...
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Sansho the Bailiff
as UbatakeIn medieval Japan, a woman and his children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
as Meshiya no KamisanIn 1928, schoolteacher Hisako Oishi takes a post on the island of Shodoshima teaching a group of...
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Equinox Flower
as Hatsu SasakiWataru Hirayama outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter...
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The Woman in the Rumor
as OsakiYukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises...
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
as OsugiThe fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and...
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A Geisha
as uncreditedEiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive...
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An Osaka Story
as uncreditedA poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi...
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
as OsugiIn the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of...
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Miyamoto Musashi
as OsugiIn this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the...
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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
as OenThe adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is...
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The End of Summer
as Sasaki TsuneThe family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and...
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The Shop Curtain
as uncreditedBased on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
as OsugiIn the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the...
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
as MadamIn this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a...
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
as OrinShozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his...
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Kunisada Chuji
as uncreditedKunisada Chuji is a common folk hero who looks out for poor people in the country who are at the...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
as OsugiThe remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to...
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Shogun and His Mistress 2
as uncreditedIn the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It...
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Osaka Tough
as uncreditedThe film takes place in a dark area of the giant city of Osaka and tells about a group of people...
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Nami kage
as uncreditedAyako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
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Three Yakuza
as uncreditedA tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits...
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Snow Country
as Blind masseuseThis movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of...
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Women in Prison
as Mitsuko Kaneoka, prisonerThe woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There...
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Lullaby for a Tough Guy
as uncreditedA ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.
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The Woman Gambler's Supplication
as uncreditedEleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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Snow Country
as OtatsuIt's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He...
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An Impudent Man
as uncreditedNaomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange...
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The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
as uncreditedJidaigeki by Tai Kato
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Price of Beauty
as Natsu MorishitaMelodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
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Gentle Breeze
as uncreditedA young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis.
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お役者変化
as 母そよDuring the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar,...
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Temptation on Glamour Island
as Shige SasakiComedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer,...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
as uncreditedThe disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic,...
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Fine Man
as uncreditedA young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he...
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Marital Relations
as uncreditedThe story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era....
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Woman Gambler Is Coming
as uncreditedSixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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Girls of the Night
as KumejuIn the late 1950's prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this...
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18 Roughs
as Seichii's MotherExperienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
as uncreditedPopular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is...
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Evil Man of Edo
as uncreditedA classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying...
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Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
as uncreditedMasuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in...
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Ghost of Saga Mansion
as uncreditedA woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost...
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Three Rogues
as uncreditedTwo lone wolf yakuza (Hideki Takahashi and Kunie Tanaka) rob a gambling den, then split up when...
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Sazae-san's Marriage
as uncreditedSazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken...
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The Body
as uncreditedThe sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job...
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Sazae's Engagement Trip
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.
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Tsukigata Hanpeita
as uncreditedDuring the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the...
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Sound in the Mist
as Chieko NaniwaIn the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko...
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In Search of Mother
as ObahPeriod piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a...
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Room for Let
as O-MinoWhen Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old...
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お役者小僧
as お幸The phantom thief, known as the "Actor Kid", who was creating a stir in the Daimyo's mansion,...
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The Fencing Master
as Old womanThe Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is...
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Hawk of the North
as uncreditedDuring the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close....
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Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
as SuenoFourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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The Third Will
as YoshikoA story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives,...
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Sazae And Aunt Apron
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip
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Good Rascals
as OmonA group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.
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City of Love
as Umeko YoshiiAiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and...
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The Swamp
as OtokiA man’s wife dies in a swamp. Her ghost returns to haunt him.
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On Wings of Love
as Umeko YoshiokaOn Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was...
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快盗三人吉三
as 小紫の局On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a...
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Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
as Midori, the motherJapanese comedy film.
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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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Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki
as uncreditedFifth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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The Garden of Women
as uncreditedA student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's...
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Chance Meeting
as YoneAya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo...
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Flower Shop Curtain
as uncreditedThe movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant...
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The Sentimental Idiot
as uncreditedA young man steals money for a cabaret singer.
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The River Yokobori
as KinTaka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya,...
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Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
as uncreditedThe Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child,...
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八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
as お金Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a...
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次郎長社長と石松社員 安来ぶし道中
as uncreditedShimizu Jirocho, the president, manages two businesses: Izumo Kanko-sha and the group inn...
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The Paper Crane
as uncreditedA wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from...
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Yakuza Official
as uncreditedBunkichi disguises himself as a yakuza to solve a mysterious death.
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
as OtoshiA comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to...
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Her Son Came Back
as uncreditedKind hearted yakuza Hanjiro of Asama risks his life in saving his henchman Genjiro and his family.
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濡れ髪権八
as およしA foot soldier from Tottori domain named Shirai Gonpachi showcased exceptional swordsmanship...
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Taikouki
as NakaBased on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period...
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