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Chieko Nakakita

Chieko Nakakita was a Japanese actress known for her roles in the films of Akira Kurosawa and Mikio Naruse. She was married to Toho producer Tomoyuki Tanaka. Born : 21st-May-1926

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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.
Released : 14th-May-1952

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Incident at Blood Pass

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the pass. When the Ronin's assignment becomes clear, to help the gang, he's ordered to kill the inn's residents, including a woman he's rescued from an abusive husband. He's reluctant to murder innocent people; then he learns that the gold shipment is a trap and he's part of a double cross. How he sorts through these divided loyalties tests of his samurai honor, and perhaps of his love for a woman.
Released : 21st-Apr-1970

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Omatsuri hanjiro

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather toward the port town.
Released : 23rd-Nov-1953

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Drunken Angel

Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convince Matsunaga to stay for treatment, which would drastically change his lifestyle. They form an uneasy friendship until Matsunaga's old boss Okada returns from prison.
Released : 27th-Apr-1948

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A Woman's Life

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
Released : 16th-Nov-1963

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Mother

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Released : 12th-Jun-1952

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Untamed Woman

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 success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
Released : 28th-May-1957

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Long Way to Okinawa

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 7th-Mar-1962

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One Wonderful Sunday

Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many small adventures, especially because Masako's optimism and belief in dreams is able to lift Yuzo from his realistic despair.
Released : 1st-Jul-1947

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Sound of the Mountain

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
Released : 15th-Jan-1954

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Flowing

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
Released : 20th-Nov-1956

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Salaryman Shimizu Minato


Released : 3rd-Jan-1962

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Nippon Irresponsible Guy

Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".
Released : 23rd-Dec-1962

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Doburoku no Tatsu

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 29th-Apr-1962

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White Beast

The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. With its cat fights, hysterical tantrums, film noir lighting, and dramatic music, White Beast is indicative of the new influences of the Hollywood psychological thriller on Naruse. Caged (John Cromwell, 1950) initiated a cycle of women's prison movies in the United States that may or may not have been shown in Japan, but the stylistics of White Beast draw on the same paranoid woman's films and film noir conventions that preceded the American cycle.
Released : 3rd-Jun-1950

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Floating Clouds

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
Released : 15th-Jan-1955

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Women Doing Time

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Released : 5th-Mar-1966

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The Last War

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
Released : 8th-Oct-1961

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Desperado Outpost

When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother's killer.
Released : 6th-Oct-1959

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Black Comedy - Ah, Fool

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
Released : 14th-Jun-1969

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Yearning

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.
Released : 15th-Jan-1964

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Sudden Rain

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
Released : 14th-Jan-1956

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Josei jishin

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 22nd-May-1962

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A Whistle in My Heart

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
Released : 29th-Mar-1959

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Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 7th-Jul-1962

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Lord for a Night

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Released : 11th-Jul-1946

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Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 7th-Jul-1962

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A Dangerous Hero

A film by Hideo Suzuki.
Released : 30th-Jul-1957

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Shin kitsune to tanuki

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 29th-Sep-1962

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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.
Released : 17th-Dec-1966

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The Storm

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
Released : 24th-Oct-1956

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The Most Beautiful

The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tremendous personal hardship, the women persevere in their tasks, devoted to their work and their country's cause.
Released : 13th-Apr-1944

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No Regrets for Our Youth

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of fascism in Japan and becomes involved with two of his students.
Released : 29th-Oct-1946

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The Quiet Duel

A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.
Released : 19th-Mar-1949

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Will-o'-the-Wisp


Released : 5th-Jul-1956

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Repast

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
Released : 23rd-Nov-1951

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Lightning

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.
Released : 9th-Oct-1952

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Wife

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 the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.
Released : 29th-Apr-1953

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Daughters, Wives and a Mother

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-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
Released : 21st-May-1960

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A Wife's Heart

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.
Released : 3rd-May-1956

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The Thin Line

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.
Released : 12th-Feb-1966

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Little Peach

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.
Released : 13th-May-1958

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A Wanderer's Notebook

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
Released : 29th-Sep-1962

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Love Letter

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Released : 13th-Dec-1953

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The Vampire Moth

The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.
Released : 11th-Apr-1956

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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
Released : 22nd-Jan-1950

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Once More

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 a ten-year period - from 1936 through the war - they find each other and are separated again by the events of those tumultuous days.
Released : 1st-Apr-1947

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A Smell of Money

Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.
Released : 5th-Dec-1965

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The Spell of the Hidden Gold

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
Released : 21st-Oct-1958

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Geisha in the Old City

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and resilience.
Released : 13th-Oct-1957

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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Released : 15th-Jan-1960

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TV Credits

あしたこそ

たつ - The 8th NHK Asadora. Starring Yumiko Fujita in a family drama. The first Asadora filmed in color.
Released : 1st-Apr-1968

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