Mieko Takamine
Mieko Takamine (高峰三枝子, Takamine Mieko) (2 December 1918 – 27 May 1990) was a Japanese actress and singer.
Mieko Takamine was born the eldest daughter of famous chikuzen biwa player and teacher Chikufu Takamine. She gave her acting debut in the 1936 film Kimi yo takarakani utae, produced by the Shochiku studios, to which she would remain affiliated throughout her career, although she would also occasionally appear in productions of other companies after the war. Her first released record as a singer was the theme song for the film Hotaru no hikari (1938), and she soon established herself as a "singing movie star".
Takamine starred in films of Japan's most notable directors, including Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse and Keisuke Kinoshita.
In 1976, Takamine won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 19th Blue Ribbon Awards for her role in The Inugamis (1976). In 1985, she was awarded the Medal of Purple Ribbon and a special Mainichi Film Award for her longtime achievements as a performer
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8616 |
| Birthday | 1918-12-02 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Takamine Mieko, Миэко Такаминэ, 高峰三枝子, Mieko Takamine, |
1951
Five Men of Edo
6/2
During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at eve...
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Five Men of Edo
1961
A Good Man, A Good Day
0/0
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to ma...
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A Good Man, A Good Day
1953
Omatsuri hanjiro
8/1
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather t...
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Omatsuri hanjiro
1962
Yume de aritai
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Yume de aritai
1962
Red Bud and White Flower
7/1
A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.
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Red Bud and White Flower
1956
A Samurai's Honor at Pawn
8/1
A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves.
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A Samurai's Honor at Pawn
1957
The Wanderer
8/1
After killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and the landowner Tamegoro, plans to steal the proceeds fro...
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The Wanderer
1952
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
0/0
Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1948
The Beauty of the Evening Sky
0/0
A platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he was a boy for the rest of his life.
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The Beauty of the Evening Sky
1945
Gekimetsu no uta
8/1
Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again...
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Gekimetsu no uta
1964
Homecoming
0/0
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, du...
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Homecoming
1962
Kono ni uruwashi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kono ni uruwashi
1950
When We Came Back
0/0
Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
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When We Came Back
1941
The 47 Ronin
6.9/79
In the early 18th-century, Lord Takumi-no-kami Asano, feuding with Lord Kira, tries to kill his opponent in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The...
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The 47 Ronin
1938
Hotaru no hikari
0/0
Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who wil...
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Hotaru no hikari
1954
一本刀土俵入
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一本刀土俵入
1990
Flower Season
10/1
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...
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Flower Season
1940
Nobuko
6.2/4
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
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Nobuko
1976
The Inugami Family
6.987/38
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pittin...
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The Inugami Family
1969
Futari no Koibito
7/1
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Futari no Koibito
1941
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
6.889/36
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
1973
Rebellion Reward
0/0
The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a photographer who uses his camera as a blackmail weapon...
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Rebellion Reward
1967
Pomegranate Time
0/0
Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
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Pomegranate Time
1945
Theater
0/0
Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.
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Theater
1957
Utau yajikita kogane dōchū
0/0
1957 Japanese movie
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Utau yajikita kogane dōchū
1953
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
0/0
Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1954
The Garden of Women
6.636/11
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
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The Garden of Women
1942
South Wind
0/0
Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm Curr...
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South Wind
1941
The Flower is not False
4.5/1
Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu Hirosh...
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The Flower is not False
1942
Moon of the Plateau
0/0
An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....
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Moon of the Plateau
1937
The Trio's Engagements
7/1
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
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The Trio's Engagements
1962
Love Under the Crucifix
7.1/17
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the...
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Love Under the Crucifix
1962
San'nin musume kanpai!
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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San'nin musume kanpai!
1957
Elegy of the North
6.111/9
Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes dangerously obses...
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Elegy of the North
1961
Love's Family Tree
0/0
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Love's Family Tree
1952
治郎吉格子
0/0
Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked like a merchant retrieved the wallet for...
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治郎吉格子
1955
Ejima and Ikushima
0/0
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku...
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Ejima and Ikushima
1947
Rira no hana wasureji
0/0
In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities. Howe...
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Rira no hana wasureji
1947
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
0/0
A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.
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Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
1960
Castle of Flames
7.2/5
In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon finds...
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Castle of Flames
1951
Dancing Girl
6.364/11
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the famil...
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Dancing Girl
1967
Aruhi watashi wa
0/0
The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between pa...
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Aruhi watashi wa
1954
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Phantom Mansion
0/0
Bored Hatamoto film #17
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Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Phantom Mansion
1937
The Lights of Asakusa
6/6
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...
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The Lights of Asakusa
1953
憧れの星座
0/0
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憧れの星座
1962
At the Side of the Bridge 2
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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At the Side of the Bridge 2
1952
Kare o korosu na
0/0
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Kare o korosu na
1947
Once More
6.8/5
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor. Over...
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Once More
1950
Escape from Prison
10/1
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Escape from Prison
1938
So Goes My Love
8.5/2
Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns...
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So Goes My Love
1951
Freedom School
7/1
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house. Co...
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Freedom School
1962
Naite waratta hanayome
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Naite waratta hanayome
1953
Wife
7.182/11
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...
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Wife
1945
Ikeru isu
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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Ikeru isu
1978
Queen Bee
7.6/8
To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating ba...
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Queen Bee
1980
An Ocean to Cross
9/1
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The fil...
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An Ocean to Cross
1945
A New Breeze
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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A New Breeze
1942
South Wind 2
0/0
In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who propose...
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South Wind 2
1951
Minami kaze
0/0
1951 Japanese movie
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Minami kaze
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
7/7
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of t...
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The Sands of Kurobe
1953
Dreaming People
0/0
Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is marryin...
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Dreaming People
1978
The Phoenix
6.1/8
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai...
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The Phoenix
1988
Memories of You
6.5/2
A mother discovers that her 14-year-old daughter Yumi has leukemia and only six months to live. She decides to keep the information secret and pushes...
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Memories of You
1984
Appassionata
6.333/3
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awa...
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Appassionata
1980
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
0/0
Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.
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The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
1964
Here Because of You
5.5/6
An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing...
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Here Because of You
1958
Points and Lines
6.2/4
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the trut...
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Points and Lines
1957
Street of Ronin
6.5/6
Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period. Star...
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Street of Ronin
1963
Bright Sea
9/1
On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university ye...
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Bright Sea
1938
The Masseurs and a Woman
6.917/30
A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniat...
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The Masseurs and a Woman
1945
Victory Song
5.667/6
An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.
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Victory Song
1937
The Golden Demon
6/5
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becom...
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The Golden Demon
1937
Renai muteki kantai
0/0
A 1937 Japanese film.
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Renai muteki kantai
1937
Vermilion and Green
5.3/3
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
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Vermilion and Green
1965
Song of Farewell
0/0
After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part wa...
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Song of Farewell
1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood
7.3/11
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading pol...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
1955
Fantasy of Youth
0/0
Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.
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Fantasy of Youth
1937
Moon Over the Ruins
6.667/3
Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.
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Moon Over the Ruins
1956
Eyes of Children
6.7/3
Shunji Mitamura's wife died very early and left him a young son. Shunji's sister Hideko decided to fulfill her sisterly duty and moved to the main cha...
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Eyes of Children
1958
Man of Thirteen Eyes
0/0
Japanese mystery film.
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Man of Thirteen Eyes
1963
The Image of Mother
0/0
A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.
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The Image of Mother
1959
Tokyo Omnibus
0/0
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...
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Tokyo Omnibus
1967
Let Us Love
0/0
Melodrama based on a hit song of the same title.
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Let Us Love
1954
Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
0/0
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman
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Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
1961
Marriageable Age
7/1
The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional father’s roo...
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Marriageable Age
1939
Lovers' Duet
7/2
Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut
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Lovers' Duet
1967
Lover's Duet
0/0
A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.
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Lover's Duet
1977
Aspiration
0/0
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Aspiration
1957
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
9/1
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
1939
Warm Current
5.25/4
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter...
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Warm Current
1957
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
0/0
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1943
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
0/0
Japanese war movie.
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Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
1950
Omoide no borero
0/0
Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
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Omoide no borero
1950
Rumba of Passion
0/0
Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
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Rumba of Passion
1951
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
10/1
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
1963
The Incorrigible
7.2/4
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
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The Incorrigible
1951
Elegy
9/1
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...
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Elegy
1941
Let's Go in Good Spirits
0/0
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” literally....
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Let's Go in Good Spirits
1946
Waiting Woman
0/0
Waiting woman
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Waiting Woman
1951
Ah, Youth
0/0
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Ah, Youth
1942
Dance of the Capital
0/0
Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film
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Dance of the Capital
1979
The Shogun Assassins
5.4/10
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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The Shogun Assassins
1963
At the Side of the Bridge 3
0/0
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At the Side of the Bridge 3
1956
Summer in Eclipse
0/0
Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with his bickering parents and scheming brother, while fi...
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Summer in Eclipse
1967
Family of Women
0/0
Soichiro Ishizuka, the head of a prestigious Tokyo textile company, lives a comfortable life with his wife and three daughters. Their current family f...
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Family of Women
1958
Denshichi Torimonocho: Mad Skullwoman
0/0
Detective Denshichi is called to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the Kishu family's daughter Teruhime and the activities of a dangerous gr...
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Mad Skullwoman
1963
恋と出世に強くなれ！
0/0
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恋と出世に強くなれ！
1955
The Road to the Spring
9/1
Kyoko is a new writer for the women's magazine "Josei no tomo" female reporter. One day, the magazine receives a letter from a reader, Ume, who, in or...
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The Road to the Spring
1949
A Woman's Fight
0/0
Yumiko, the president's daughter, meets a suspicious woman after her wedding ceremony with Tamio.
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A Woman's Fight
1949
Farewell Tango
8/1
A heartrending love story between an aspiring singer and a unnamed composer. Sobbing love songs sung by a heroine Mieko Takemine.
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Farewell Tango
1956
Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
0/0
1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie
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Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
1956
The Lady Was Pawn
0/0
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The Lady Was Pawn
1949
Jealousy
0/0
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Jealousy
1983
Oddball Nippon
0/0
Set in a rural town in Yamaguchi Prefecture, this comedy centers on a young couple determined to pursue their love against all opposition, while also...
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Oddball Nippon
1956
The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
0/0
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The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
1976
Love Is a Hunter
0/0
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Love Is a Hunter
1946
Onatsu Seijurō
0/0
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Onatsu Seijurō
1955
We Never Let You Go
0/0
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We Never Let You Go
1948
Dare ni koisen
0/0
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Dare ni koisen
1948
Hanayome senshu
0/0
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Hanayome senshu
1948
Suiren fujin to bara musume
0/0
When pickpocketing runs rampant, detectives step up their game. Yazaki, a detective at the Ohira Private Detective Agency who graduated from the Unive...
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Suiren fujin to bara musume
1950
Shinju fujin: Shojo no maki
0/0
A story depicting the true nature of a vulnerable woman who abandons love, severs the bond between father and daughter, and challenges the very embodi...
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Shinju fujin: Shojo no maki
1950
Shinju fujin: Hitozuma no maki
0/0
A prostitute? A poisonous woman? A virgin widow writhing in agony night after night, tormented by her first misstep.
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Shinju fujin: Hitozuma no maki
1950
The Actress and the Detective
0/0
A private detective chases a female pickpocket into a film studio and dashes through the sets. With special appearances by a star-studded cast.
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The Actress and the Detective
1954
Hana no nagadosu
0/0
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