Shin Saburi

Born: 1909-02-12

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Shin Saburi (佐分利 信, Saburi Shin; February 12, 1909 in Hokkaidō, Japan – September 22, 1982) was a Japanese film actor noted for his leading roles in a number of films by the director Yasujiro Ozu including Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941), Tea Over Rice (1952), Equinox Flower (1958) and Late Autumn (1960). Description above from the Wikipedia article Shin Saburi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Equinox Flower

as Wataru Hirayama
Released: 1958-09-07

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter...

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Late Autumn

as Soichi Mamiya
Released: 1960-11-13

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry,...

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The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice

as Mokichi Satake
Released: 1952-10-01

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic...

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Island of Hell

as Priest Ryonen
Released: 1977-08-27

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

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There Was a Father

as Yasutaro Kurokawa
Released: 1942-04-01

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite...

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The Masseurs and a Woman

as Shintaro Omura
Released: 1938-07-07

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The...

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The Castle of Sand

as Ex-Finance Minister, Shigeki Tadokoro
Released: 1974-10-19

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in...

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Island of the Evil Spirits

as Daizen Osakabe
Released: 1981-10-03

Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he...

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as Shojiro Toda
Released: 1941-03-01

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced...

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May Love Be Restored

as Jishu Tagami
Released: 1980-04-29

A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.

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The Incident

as uncredited
Released: 1978-06-03

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a...

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August without Emperor

as Gozo Ohata
Released: 1978-09-23

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese...

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Japan's Don

as Kazumasa Sakura
Released: 1977-01-22

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...

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Wakaki sugata

as Karasawa, army doctor
Released: 1943-12-01

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Magnitude 7.9

as uncredited
Released: 1980-08-30

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.

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Fountainhead

as uncredited
Released: 1956-02-26

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

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Settlement of Love

as Narasaki
Released: 1956-03-28

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child....

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Glowing Autumn

as uncredited
Released: 1978-12-23

A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by...

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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

as Kazumasa Sakura
Released: 1978-09-09

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to...

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The Three Undelivered Letters

as Mitsumasa
Released: 1979-10-06

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to...

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Burden of Life

as Kimimasa Hashimoto
Released: 1935-12-10

Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his...

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Fossilized Wilderness

as uncredited
Released: 1982-04-17

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The Cast-Off

as uncredited
Released: 1959-05-13

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high...

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Uzu

as uncredited
Released: 1961-01-15

1961 Japanese movie

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The Wicked

as uncredited
Released: 1980-06-28

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the...

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The Tree of Love

as uncredited
Released: 1938-09-15

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret:...

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A Man's Recompense: Part 1

as uncredited
Released: 1937-08-13

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an...

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Warm Current

as Yuzo Hibiki
Released: 1939-12-01

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a...

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Sinking the Unsinkable

as uncredited
Released: 1944-03-23

Japanese Warmovie

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The Fossil

as Tajihei Itsuki
Released: 1975-10-04

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a...

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Japanese Godfather: Ambition

as Kazumasa Sakura
Released: 1977-10-29

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...

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The Waves

as uncredited
Released: 1952-04-03

Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952...

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Southern Wind

as uncredited
Released: 1939-02-15

Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The...

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Three Women of the North

as uncredited
Released: 1945-08-05

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town....

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Army

as Captain
Released: 1944-12-07

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his...

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Zoku aizen katsura

as uncredited
Released: 1939-05-05

1939 Japanese movie

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Vermilion and Green

as uncredited
Released: 1937-04-17

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

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Akutoku

as Kaji Sosuke
Released: 1958-02-19

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a...

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A Man's Recompense: Part 2

as uncredited
Released: 1937-08-24

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an...

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Frozen River

as uncredited
Released: 1976-04-24

A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with...

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I Want to Be a Shellfish

as Lieutenant-General Yano
Released: 1958-10-31

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan,...

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The Fixer

as uncredited
Released: 1979-10-27

Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly...

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Tokyo Omnibus

as uncredited
Released: 1959-10-30

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow...

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First Love Questions and Answers

as uncredited
Released: 1950-01-15

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The Family

as Daisuke Manpyo
Released: 1974-01-26

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for...

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Rainy Night Duel

as Masazumi Asaji
Released: 1956-01-29

Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman....

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Nichijô no tatakai

as uncredited
Released: 1944-08-03

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Flower Shop Curtain

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-27

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant...

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The Trio's Engagements

as Shin Miki
Released: 1937-07-18

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted...

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Izu no musumetachi

as uncredited
Released: 1945-08-30

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Freedom School

as uncredited
Released: 1951-05-05

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is...

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Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets

as Isoroku Yamamoto
Released: 1956-07-21

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the...

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Marching Song

as uncredited
Released: 1937-10-21

A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

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Temptation

as Ryukichi
Released: 1948-04-01

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor...

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Dancing with a Mask

as Tsuneoka Shinichiro
Released: 1943-10-28

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

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The Woman’s Reflective Pool

as Manabe
Released: 1951-01-03

Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's...

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Family Meeting

as Takayuki Shigezumi
Released: 1936-04-03

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

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Lady Doctor Kinuyo

as Yasuo Asano
Released: 1937-04-29

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their...

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Mother and Child

as Terao
Released: 1938-07-01

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and...

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The Golden Demon

as Jôsuke Arao
Released: 1937-06-10

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy...

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Rise, Fair Sun

as uncredited
Released: 1973-10-27

Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the...

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The New Road: Akemi

as uncredited
Released: 1936-11-30

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow...

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South Wind 2

as uncredited
Released: 1942-10-22

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is...

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Family Diary

as Shuzo Ubukata
Released: 1938-09-29

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both...

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On This Earth

as Ichiro Amano
Released: 1957-11-22

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

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The Flower is not False

as uncredited
Released: 1941-04-17

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had...

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Goodbye, Hello

as Gosuke Aota
Released: 1959-01-03

Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa

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Thirst

as uncredited
Released: 1958-06-01

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The New Road: Ryota

as uncredited
Released: 1936-12-16

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow...

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The Refugee

as uncredited
Released: 1955-05-03

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is...

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Dôkoku

as uncredited
Released: 1952-10-16

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Record of a Woman Doctor

as uncredited
Released: 1941-11-23

A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free...

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Our Planes Fly South

as uncredited
Released: 1943-09-10

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Hiroba no kōdoku

as Kotaro Haraguchi
Released: 1953-09-15

Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta

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The Spy Has Not Died Yet

as uncredited
Released: 1942-04-23

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Let's Go in Good Spirits

as uncredited
Released: 1941-05-01

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were...

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The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

as uncredited
Released: 1951-11-16

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

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Divorce

as Daisuke Sakuma
Released: 1952-05-29

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Homecoming

as uncredited
Released: 1950-11-25

A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former...

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Men vs. Women

as uncredited
Released: 1936-08-29

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of...

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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

as uncredited
Released: 1953-02-19

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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Hunting Rifle

as Josuke Misugi
Released: 1961-01-03

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger...

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Dawn Chorus

as uncredited
Released: 1941-06-12

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Woman in the Mist

as Doctor
Released: 1936-05-14

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed...

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Weeds with flowers

as uncredited
Released: 1939-06-15

Weed with Flowers

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A Brother and His Younger Sister

as Keisuke Mamiya
Released: 1939-04-01

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger...

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When a Woman Loves

as Reisaku Niizu
Released: 1959-09-24

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

as uncredited
Released: 1952-11-06

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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Housewife Camellia

as uncredited
Released: 1936-10-04

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime...

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娘十八嘘つき時代

as uncredited
Released: 1949-02-04

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Ah Youth

as uncredited
Released: 1951-06-15

Aa seishun 1951

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South Wind

as uncredited
Released: 1942-09-17

Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the...

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Kinuyo's First Love

as uncredited
Released: 1940-03-31

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's...

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Ashita Koso

as 画家・重宗恒有
First aired: 1968-04-01

The 8th NHK Asadora. Starring Yumiko Fujita in a family drama. The first Asadora filmed in color.

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Ashura no Gotoku

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-01-13

Kuniko Mukōda's masterpiece, a poignant and subtle portrait of the jealousy and suspicion that...

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