Masao Shimizu
Masao Shimizu (清水将夫 Shimizu Masao, 5 October 1908 – 5 October 1975) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in over 110 films between 1931 and 1971.
Drunken Angel
as OyabunDoctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he...
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Ikiru
as DoctorKanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
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High and Low
as Prison WardenIn the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge...
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Godzilla Raids Again
as Zoologist Dr. TadokoroTwo fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla...
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Sanjuro
as KikuiToshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced,...
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Sansho the Bailiff
as Masauji TairaIn medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was...
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The Life of Oharu
as KikuojiIn Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the...
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Stray Dog
as NakamuraA bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot,...
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Scandal
as JudgeA celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a...
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Gate of Hell
as NobuyoriJapan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
as Professor HakozakiOver more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as...
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The 47 Ronin
as Ecchûmori KatôIn 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the...
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One Wonderful Sunday
as Dance Hall ManagerYuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on...
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Youth of the Beast
as Yôsuke IshiyamaWhen a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with...
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Those Who Make Tomorrow
as Section chief (uncredited)Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become...
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I Live in Fear
as Yamazaki, Yoshi's husbandKiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an...
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Admiral Yamamoto
as KuritaAs Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto...
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The Sands of Kurobe
as uncreditedKitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps...
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The Great White Tower
as uncreditedThe story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors...
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Samurai Banners
as uncreditedKansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He...
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Wife
as uncreditedTen years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success,...
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Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
as uncreditedDirector Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about...
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The Ball at the Anjo House
as Ryûzaburô ShinkawaAfter Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
as Ichirai ZenbaThe upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the...
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Street of Violence
as OkanoAn attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police...
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Children of Hiroshima
as ToshiakiShows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
as TozukaJapan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the...
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Gigantis, the Fire Monster
as Dr. TadokoroA prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
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The Snow Woman
as JiunA master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special...
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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 Straits of Love and Hate
as Kenkichi, Owner of InnA story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
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Young Swordsman
as Shimamura JuzaemonThis Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were...
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Stakeout
as Mr. YokokawaTwo detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they...
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The Night before Pearl Harbor
as uncreditedThe last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of...
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This Happy Life
as uncreditedA small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.
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限りなき情熱
as uncreditedIs it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the...
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
as Prof. YunakaWhen Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor...
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City of Beasts
as IchiharaUniversity student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a...
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Miniature
as NagaseGinko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one...
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The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
as OyamaJiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different...
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The Champion
as Keisuke MiyagawaEikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club...
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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 Wolves
as uncreditedA group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of...
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Shojohou
as Taniguchi EisukeA beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely,...
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Muhō Ichidai
as uncreditedThe movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in...
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Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
as Police Officer SugiyamaStalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a...
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A Woman's Life
as Dr. Daisaku YoshieOne of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle...
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Eagle of the Pacific
as Commander KashimaAdmiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his...
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Wakai toppū
as uncreditedOn his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is...
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Mother Never Dies
as uncreditedThe premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
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Flame of My Love
as uncreditedA woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo,...
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Savage Wolf Pack
as uncreditedA professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a...
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That Guy and I
as uncreditedAsada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's...
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The Elder Sister
as uncreditedFollows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.
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Let's Dance Tonight
as Shotaro SakuradaA drama about the sex industry.
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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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Sunflower Girl
as Setsuko's fatherYoung Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei...
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Reminiscence
as uncreditedKazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of...
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Secret of Naruto
as uncreditedFrom the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima...
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The Rainbow-Colored Flower
as TakenakaEbihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women...
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Story of a Beloved Wife
as uncreditedStory of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi...
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A Hole of My Own Making
as uncreditedNobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The...
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The Sound of Waves
as Lighthouse ChiefOn a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji...
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Shadow of intimidation
as Frank LiuFour henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They...
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
as uncreditedLife and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the...
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Rusty Knife
as Shingo ManoUdaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district...
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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
as Kōki HirotaIn 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the...
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Foul Play
as Tosuke KawasePrivate eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa)...
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The Swan Elegy
as Koichiro KobayashiOne day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she...
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The Fourth Lady
as uncreditedIt was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land...
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Welcome, My Baby
as UdagawaTwo friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage...
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Patterns of Love
as uncreditedOmnibus picture, consisting of three stories.
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Glory on the Summit
as Misa's fatherA treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the...
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Pomegranate Time
as Shintaro SakamotoComedy-drama about university tennis players.
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Lone Rebel
as uncreditedNomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive,...
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Beyond the Green Hills
as uncreditedShinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance...
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Keep Your Chin Up
as ShôichirôKawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys...
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Striving to Live
as uncreditedYasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly...
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A Ripple in a Morning
as President MukaiAtsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in...
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The White Orchid
as uncreditedA Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
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Kojiro
as uncreditedSasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with...
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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
as ToyokuraA crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang...
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Farewell to Spring
as Takurô ShinzekiBittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
as uncreditedAn ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of...
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Judge and Jeopardy
as uncreditedIt is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's...
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Who's The Real Killer
as uncreditedHarsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
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Forbidden Lips
as uncreditedA youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a...
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The Wild Reporter
as uncreditedSeven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a...
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Love in Ginza
as uncreditedHanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with...
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Once More
as PolicemanA romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a...
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On This Earth
as Tatsuzo, Wakako's dad1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura
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No Time for Tears
as uncreditedCoach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher...
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Season of the Sun
as uncreditedThe film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days...
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Confession of a girl: Purity
as uncreditedThe film depicts the life of a high school student today, touching on issues of purity, sports,...
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Little Snack
as uncreditedRebecca an incredibly successful image "upgrader" who specializes in bringing out the best...
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The Wild Sea
as SakakiYoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro,...
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Tiger of the Sea
as uncreditedA group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
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The Young and Bad
as uncreditedNot too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his...
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Adolescence
as Nobuyuki, Kyoko's fatherParent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
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Mother Country
as uncreditedIn 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife...
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Shitto
as Kanzo NagataJapanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.
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Jinsei Gekijo Yokubo hen: sanshu kirako
as uncredited1954 Theater of Life adaptation.
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The Stand in Hakone
as uncreditedA period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high...
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Turbid youth
as uncreditedShigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around...
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
as uncreditedIkeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's...
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人生とんぼ返り
as uncreditedAfter learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the...
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Crimson Wings
as Ryozo KadaAt about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown...
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Four Young Sisters
as Shojiro NozawaThree girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from...
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Break Down that Wall
as uncreditedA man is wrongfully accused of murder.
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Summer Storm
as uncreditedA woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.
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Karate Sanshiro
as uncreditedShunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging...
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The Guitarist and the Rancher
as uncreditedRambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old...
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The Rambler under the Southern Cross
as uncreditedIn the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back...
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Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
as uncreditedA youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in...
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