Eiko Miyoshi
Stray Dog
as Harumi's motherA bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot,...
Movie pageThe Hidden Fortress
as Maid (uncredited)In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers...
Movie pageThrone of Blood
as Old Woman at castleReturning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who...
Movie pageGood Morning
as Mitsue HaraguchiA lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of...
Movie pageThe Lower Depths
as Asa, Tomekichi's WifeResidents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and...
Movie pageIkiru
as HousewifeKanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
Movie pageSamurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as OsugiAfter years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns...
Movie pageI Live in Fear
as Toyo NakajimaKiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an...
Movie pageSamurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as OsugiStruggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to...
Movie pageThe Idiot
as Madame KayamaKameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved...
Movie pageMother
as GrandmotherA teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Movie pageNo Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame YagiharaYukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved...
Movie pageTokyo Twilight
as MidwifeTwo sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the...
Movie pageBlack River
as uncreditedA university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The...
Movie pageZoku shachōtaiheiki
as uncredited7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
Movie pageMr. Pu
as uncreditedA math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
Movie pageHusband and Wife
as uncreditedA married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The...
Movie pageShozo, a Cat and Two Women
as Mrs. ShiokawaShozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his...
Movie pageElegy
as uncreditedWataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its...
Movie pageThe Beast Shall Die
as uncreditedA promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following...
Movie pageCarmen's Innocent Love
as Kumako SatakeStrip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing...
Movie pageSamurai Saga
as OkuniEdmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an...
Movie pageWhere Chimneys Are Seen
as RankoGosho’s most celebrated film both in Japan and the West, Where Chimneys Are Seen is perhaps the...
Movie pageOmatsuri hanjiro
as uncreditedEvery year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a...
Movie pageSnow Country
as TeacherIt's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He...
Movie pageA Holiday in Tokyo
as uncreditedMay Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New...
Movie pageThe Skin of the South
as Old lady OnoderaWhen a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development...
Movie pageA Whistle in My Heart
as uncreditedThe story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the...
Movie pageFirst-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
as Mrs. HatokoNatsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a...
Movie pageOkuni and Gohei
as MotherA high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is...
Movie pageMarital Relations
as uncreditedThe story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era....
Movie pageSword for Hire
as uncreditedSoldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind...
Movie pageThe Blue Pearl
as Noe's auntThe Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers;...
Movie pageClothes of Deception
as uncreditedThe story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist...
Movie pageFirefly Light
as uncreditedSet in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose...
Movie pageThe President's Boss
as uncreditedA new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former...
Movie pageThe Woman Who Touched the Legs
as uncreditedA screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following...
Movie pageThe Third President
as uncreditedThe fifth entry in the Company President Series
Movie pageSomewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as uncreditedThis drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in...
Movie pageA Wife's Heart
as uncreditedKiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly...
Movie pageWho Knows a Woman's Heart
as uncreditedIkeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's...
Movie pageBoyhood
as uncreditedWhen a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
Movie pageThe Cock Crows Twice
as uncreditedThree young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
Movie pageNotes of an Itinerant Performer
as OtaneUta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt...
Movie pageThe Unbalanced Wheel
as uncreditedA study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
Movie pageJirocho Begins His Roving Life
as uncreditedJirocho the gambler hits the road.
Movie pageThe Days of Evil Women
as uncreditedThe common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune,...
Movie pageLove Never Fails
as uncreditedTwo youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant...
Movie pageSunflower Girl
as uncreditedYoung Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei...
Movie pageAn Inn at Osaka
as uncreditedAn Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive...
Movie pageEscape Zone
as uncreditedShiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a...
Movie pageThe President Talks Bank
as uncreditedThe president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing...
Movie pageA Case of Honor
as uncreditedThe obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a...
Movie pageWhite Fish
as NanA family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a...
Movie pageJigoku bana
as uncreditedPeriod drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
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