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Ken Uehara
Born: 7th Oct 1909 Tokyo, Japan - Died 23rd Nov 1991
Dept: Acting
Ken Uehara (上原謙, Uehara Ken, 7 November 1909 – 23 November 1991) was a Japanese actor who appeared in approximately 200 films between 1935 and 1990.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 135
Film: 134 (99%)
Television: 1 (1%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Family, Crime, TV Movie, Mystery
Filmography
Original title: 花の季節
1990
Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of the ... view
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Original title: 映画女優
1987
Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi. ... view
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Ken Uehara
Oct 1985 (first aired)
The 35th NHK Asadora about a man who enters the world of popular theater. ... view
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祖父・亀造 (150 ep.)
Original title: 時をかける少女
1983
Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has th ... view
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Masaharu Fukamachi
Original title: おんな６丁目 蜜の味
1982
The night in Ginza was shimmering with neon lights. A grand celebration was being held for the seventh anniversary of the club "Ayako." Among the cele ... view
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Original title: バンコックの夜
1966
Shuichi, a young doctor working at a hospital in Bangkok, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy Chinese trader. ... view
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Original title: エレキの若大将
1965
Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster. ... view
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Michiko Matsubara's father
Original title: 海底軍艦
1963
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World W ... view
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Admiral Kosumi
Original title: クレージー作戦 くたばれ！無責任
1963
Seven employees rise up in rebellion against an irresponsible company. ... view
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Original title: ハワイの若大将
1963
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in Hawaii. ... view
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上田
Original title: 香港、東京、夏威夷
1963
The third and final chapter of MP & GI's Toho Trilogy expands the geographical reach of the franchise, taking stars Lucilla You Min and Takarada Akira ... view
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Okamoto's father
Original title: 忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻
1962
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their hon ... view
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Original title: 日本一の若大将
1962
Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his h ... view
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Original title: どぶ鼠作戦
1962
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity. ... view
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Seki
Original title: 妖星ゴラス
1962
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is en ... view
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Dr. Kôno
Original title: 銀座の若大将
1962
Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing t ... view
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Kingoro Shimagawa
Original title: 世界大戦争
1961
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers. ... view
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Minister of Foreign Affairs
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Original title: モスラ
1961
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population al ... view
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Dr. Harada
Original title: 大学の若大将
1961
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series. ... view
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Mr. Nomura
Original title: 香港の夜
1961
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who me ... view
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Ryuzo Kimura
Original title: 女は夜化粧する
1961
A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a ni ... view
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Original title: お姐ちゃんはツイてるぜ
1960
Punch, Pinch, and Sentchi are three young women in Tokyo whose work and relationships become entangled after a minor accident draws their boyfriends i ... view
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Original title: 大学の山賊たち
1960
A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a ... view
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Original title: 娘・妻・母
1960
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-law ... view
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Sokei Gojo
Original title: ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐
1960
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1 ... view
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Original title: 侍とお姐ちゃん
1960
Punch, Pinch, and Sench become involved in a murder mystery centering on a Chinese billionaire (Mihashi), actually a Japanese yakuza, who claims to be ... view
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Original title: 恐るべき火遊び
1959
Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with the daughter of a wealthy trading company president ... view
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Dr. Yabuki
Original title: 三羽烏三代記
1959
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with ... view
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Original title: 若い恋人たち
1959
Engineer Shuichi defies his wealthy family to live with bar hostess Kazuyo, whose loyalty to her struggling family complicates their love. As class, p ... view
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Doi
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Yusaku Kaneko
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Original title: 社員無頼 反撃篇
1959
Caught in a corporate power struggle, a man uses betrayal and strategy to expose corruption and settle personal scores—only to find true support whe ... view
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Shirō Sumida
Original title: 社員無頼 怒号篇
1959
When a corrupt executive takes over his struggling company and violates his girlfriend, a young salaryman declares war, leaving his job to expose the ... view
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Shirō Sumida
Original title: 若い娘たち
1958
In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a su ... view
Character:
Koutaro Nomura, Tomoko's Father
Original title: 大学の人気者
1958
Romantic melodrama about the loves and adventures of Kageyama (Takarada) and his fellow oarsmen at Meikyo University. ... view
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Kentaro Taki
Original title: 風流温泉日記
1958
At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals. When a guest threatens to expose one maid's ... view
Character:
Sentarō Kuwabara
Original title: 結婚のすべて
1958
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister. ... view
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Saburo Kakiuchi
Original title: 東京の休日
1958
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes o ... view
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Original title: 氷壁
1958
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of t ... view
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Original title: 妖蛇荘の魔王
1957
During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles’ star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita collapses on stage at Cabaret Copacana. Goro Hayat ... view
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Inspector Uemura
Original title: わが胸に虹は消えず: 第一部
1957
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film. ... view
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Original title: わが胸に虹は消えず: 第二部
1957
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film. ... view
Character:
Shuji Aso
Original title: あらくれ
1957
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for ... view
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Tsuru, the first husband
Original title: おしどりの間
1956
After running away from her mother, Ashiko works as a maid at an inn and changes her name, but she finds herself torn between her past and a new relat ... view
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Original title: 霧の音
1956
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Ka ... view
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Kazuhiko Onuma
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Father Takeuchi
Original title: 夜の河
1956
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor. ... view
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Yukio Takemura
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Company President
Original title: 続 へそくり社長
1956
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements. ... view
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Original title: 虹いくたび
1956
Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they h ... view
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Original title: へそくり社長
1956
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter. ... view
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Yuzo Kaneda
Original title: のんき裁判
1955
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, ... view
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Original title: 女の一生
1955
The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan. ... view
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Kujō, Nobuko's husband
Original title: 女性に関する十二章
1954
Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result of ... view
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Kurumada Tatsuo
Original title: 母の初恋
1954
A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man. ... view
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Original title: 晩菊
1954
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days c ... view
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Tabe
Original title: 山の音
1954
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman. ... view
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Otto, Shuuichi
Original title: にっぽん製
1953
A love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo player against the backdrop of Japan in the early pos ... view
Character:
Akio Kanasugi
Original title: 白魚
1953
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon th ... view
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Koyama
Original title: 日本の悲劇
1953
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with ... view
Character:
Masayuki Akazawa
Original title: 妻
1953
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and th ... view
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Toichi, Mihoko's husband
Original title: 煙突の見える場所
1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial ... view
Character:
Ryukichi Ogata
Original title: 夫婦
1953
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife. ... view
Character:
Isaku Nakahara
Original title: 東京のえくぼ
1952
Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (t ... view
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Buntaro Kinokuniya
Original title: 朝の波紋
1952
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan. ... view
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Character:
Minotu Fujisaki
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Managing Director Nakahara
Original title: めし
1951
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband. ... view
Character:
Hatsunosuke Okamoto
Original title: 歌う野球小僧
1951
A musical comedy about a spirited orphan who forms a youth baseball team and gets caught up in a mix of sports, singing, and crime when he tries to re ... view
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Tohari
Original title: 悲歌
1951
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his discipl ... view
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Naohiko Watari
Original title: 夜来香
1951
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi. ... view
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Original title: 處女峰
1950
A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that has ... view
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Kiichiro
Original title: 雪夫人絵図
1950
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness. ... view
Character:
Masaya Kikunaka
Original title: 宗方姉妹
1950
Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose wh ... view
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Hiroshi Tashiro
Original title: 女医の診察室
1950
A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more surprised to discover that he has a wife and child. W ... view
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Dr. Kawamura
Original title: 新釈四谷怪談 後篇
1949
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil ... view
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Tamiya Iemon
Original title: 新釈四谷怪談 前篇
1949
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely d ... view
Character:
Tamiya Iemon
Original title: 人間模様
1949
A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president. ... view
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Kinuhiko Daiwa
Original title: 虹を抱く処女
1948
Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka's house. Hidaka, who is a poor musician suffers fr ... view
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Kotaro Hidaka
Original title: 三百六十五夜
1948
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and d ... view
Character:
Kawakita Koroku
Original title: 花ひらく
1948
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her. ... view
Character:
Saburo Seki
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Original title: 結婚
1947
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat. ... view
Character:
Tsumoru Sugawara
Original title: 必勝歌
1945
An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort. ... view
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Makoto Ichino, Navy
Original title: 陸軍
1944
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition. ... view
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Nishina
Original title: 君こそ次の荒鷲だ
1944
A boy aviator endures rigorous training and a sad fate, and grows into a strong man with his eyes set on becoming an eagle. ... view
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Original title: 歓呼の町
1944
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye. ... view
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Shingo Furukawa
Original title: 生きてゐる孫六
1943
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness. ... view
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Original title: 花咲く港
1943
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan bac ... view
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Tomekichi
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Mita
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Original title: すみだ川
1942
Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big st ... view
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Original title: 花
1941
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes mar ... view
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Original title: 元気で行かうよ
1941
In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means “waiter” liter ... view
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Original title: 歌女おぼえ書
1941
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and ... view
Character:
Shôtarô Hiramatsu
Original title: 兄とその妹
1939
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting t ... view
Character:
Michio Arita
Original title: お加代の覚悟
1939
A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs. ... view
Character:
Shunsaku
Original title: 女性の戦ひ
1939
Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to ma ... view
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Original title: 家庭日記
1938
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ fami ... view
Character:
Ichiro Tsuji
Original title: 愛染かつら
1938
A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run a ... view
Character:
Kozo Tsumura
Original title: 浅草の灯
1937
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pr ... view
Character:
Shichirō Yamagami
Original title: 婚約三羽烏
1937
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu. ... view
Character:
Ken Taniyama
Original title: 朱と緑
1937
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees. ... view
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Original title: 淑女は何を忘れたか
1937
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a ... view
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Movie Star
Original title: 新道 後篇・良太の巻
1936
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the per ... view
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Original title: 新道
1936
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told ... view
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Original title: 人妻椿
1936
The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to loo ... view
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Original title: 男性対女性
1936
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era. ... view
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Original title: 有りがたうさん
1936
In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo. ... view
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Mr. Thank You