Masami Shimojō
Japanese film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 100 films. Hoping to become a film director, Shimojō traveled to Tokyo in 1935 but ended up joining a theater troupe, debuting on stage in 1936. He made his film debut in 1940, but continued on stage well after World War II, primarily as a member of Gekidan Mingei. He was most known, however, for playing the uncle of Torajiro Kuruma in the long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kids Return
as Yakuza ChairmanShinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing...
Movie page
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
as TatsuzoTora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account,...
Movie page
Tsugumi
as DoctorTsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents...
Movie page
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
as UncleTora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who...
Movie page
Village of Eight Gravestones
as KudoThe heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries...
Movie page
The Sands of Kurobe
as uncreditedKitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps...
Movie page
The Heart
as Employment agentIn the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon...
Movie page
Tora-san Goes North
as UncleWhen his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian...
Movie page
Oracion
as uncreditedSet on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is...
Movie page
Stage-Struck Tora-san
as Kuruma TatsuzōTora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an...
Movie page
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
as uncreditedWhen his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to...
Movie page
Tora-san's Island Encounter
as UncleTora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984),...
Movie page
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
as UncleIn Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san...
Movie page
Tora-san's Lullaby
as uncreditedAfter Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved...
Movie page
Tora-san Makes Excuses
as uncreditedTora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi...
Movie page
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
as UncleIn his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he...
Movie page
Foster Daddy, Tora!
as uncreditedAfter a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her...
Movie page
Tora-san to the Rescue
as uncreditedTora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged...
Movie page
I'll Never Cry!
as uncreditedThe rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in...
Movie page
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
as TatsuzoTora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased...
Movie page
Tora-san's Matchmaker
as uncreditedAfter failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush...
Movie page
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
as UncleDuring his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to...
Movie page
The Great White Tower
as uncreditedThe story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors...
Movie page
Tora-san's Song of Love
as UncleTora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's...
Movie page
Tora-san, the Intellectual
as TatsuzoTora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years...
Movie page
Street of Violence
as ZenjiAn attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police...
Movie page
Tora-san Plays Cupid
as TatsuzōTora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes...
Movie page
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
as TatsuzoTora-san helps out a runaway bride.
Movie page
Break Down that Wall
as Aioi Station detective AA man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Movie page
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
as Tatsuzo KurumaDuring his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully...
Movie page
Youth A Go Go!
as Gozo MasudaKenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The...
Movie page
Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter
as uncreditedFujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life...
Movie page
Tora-san Plays Daddy
as UncleA playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy...
Movie page
Talk of the Town Tora-san
as TatsuzoAfter a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect...
Movie page
The Shadow of Fear
as uncreditedIn the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by...
Movie page
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
as uncreditedAsian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II
Movie page
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
as uncreditedTora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan...
Movie page
Tora-san, the Go-Between
as UncleIn Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself....
Movie page
The Village
as uncreditedThis appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on...
Movie page
Tora-san's Promise
as uncreditedTora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he...
Movie page
Tora-san, the Expert
as uncreditedTora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets...
Movie page
I Love The Sun
as uncreditedA coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.
Movie page
Love in Ginza
as uncreditedHanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with...
Movie page
Blood and Sea
as uncreditedThe Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking...
Movie page
Tora-san, My Uncle
as TatsuzoTora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents...
Movie page
Tora-san's Pure Love
as TatsuzoWhen Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on...
Movie page
Tora-san Goes Religious?
as UncleTora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late...
Movie page
Dorodarake no seishun
as uncreditedShigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around...
Movie page
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
as UncleDuring his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers...
Movie page
Moscow, My Love
as Nogava, Yuriko's uncleA young talented dancer from Japan is invited to study ballet art at a school at the Bolshoi...
Movie page
The Seasons of Love
as InukaiA family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman...
Movie page
Jungle Block
as Azusa's lawyerA young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted...
Movie page
Many Happy Returns
as Original 'Kyoso'Kazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers...
Movie page
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
as UncleTora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her...
Movie page
Lost Love
as Michiyuki TakasugaShimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to...
Movie page
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
as YoshiokaA crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang...
Movie page
Morning Fog
as uncreditedKyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in...
Movie page
Whirlpool of Flesh
as Shozo KageyamaDuring the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is...
Movie page
Punishment of a Lawless Villian
as uncreditedIn the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong...
Movie page
Akio Jissoji’s Museum of Wonders - Volume of Thoughts
as uncreditedA bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange...
Movie page
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
as TatsuzoWhen cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by...
Movie page
Ah! Nomugi toge - Shinryokuhen
as uncreditedSequel to "Nomugi Pass"
Movie page
Dai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu
as uncreditedStrife between competing lumber mills.
Movie page
Skinny and Fatty
as Mr. OyamaTwo young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends.
Movie page
Tales of the Bizarre
as uncreditedInspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show...
TV Show page
Professional Killers
as uncreditedA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
TV Show page
Life of a Flower
as Miura HokuanThe story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.
TV Show page
Natsuko no Sake
as 山田信助Natsuko, who was a copywriter, starts to cultivate rice called Tatsunishiki, which is a phantom...
TV Show page
Enban Sensou Bankid
as Isao UzakiEnban Sensou Bankid is the title of a tokusatsu series of classic made by Toho. The series,...
TV Show page
Kyukei no Koya
as uncreditedBased on novel 1962 "Kyukei no Koya" by Seicho Matsumoto. A serial murder occurs around the...
TV Show page