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Nobuko Otowa

Nobuko Otowa (1 October 1925 – 22 December 1994) was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 134 films between 1950 and 1994. She was married to film director Kaneto Shindō. She posthumously won the award for best supporting actress at the 19th Japan Academy Prize for A Last Note, having been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer during its production. Full list of TV and Movie credits for Nobuko Otowa.​ Born : 1st-Oct-1925

Movie Credits

Lantern Under a Full Moon


Released : 11th-Jul-1951

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Women of Ginza

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life. The proprietress, Ikuyo, is a ridiculously good-natured woman who gives money to a poor but brilliant young man, Eisaku Yanoguchi, to attend college on the condition that he will take care of her in the future.
Released : 1st-Apr-1955

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Onibaba

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
Released : 21st-Nov-1964

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The Naked Island

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
Released : 23rd-Nov-1960

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Turbid youth

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.
Released : 21st-Sep-1954

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傑作推理劇場 不安な階段


Released : 15th-Apr-1982

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Ryûri no kishi


Released : 21st-Jun-1956

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Kuroneko

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
Released : 24th-Feb-1968

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Till Tomorow Comes

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 10th-Feb-1962

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Dolls floating down the river

A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi bina", which absorbed the customs of the Tottori region.
Released : 3rd-Mar-1962

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Long Way to Okinawa

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 7th-Mar-1962

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Strong Women, Weak Men

After a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko and becomes a hostess.
Released : 30th-Jun-1968

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Asshii-tachi no machi


Released : 28th-Mar-1981

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Miss Oyu

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
Released : 22nd-Jun-1951

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Who Will Judge Me?

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Released : 18th-May-1951

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Ika naru hoshi no moto ni

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 15th-Apr-1962

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Koina no Ginpei

1954 Japanese movie
Released : 15th-Jan-1954

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Don't Mind

Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, and the ordinary people who live there.
Released : 3rd-Mar-1990

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Children of Hiroshima

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
Released : 6th-Aug-1952

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The Ceremony

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
Released : 18th-May-1971

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Edo Porn

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
Released : 12th-Sep-1981

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Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
Released : 22nd-Nov-1959

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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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A Last Note

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past
Released : 3rd-Jun-1995

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Yaji and Kita on the Road

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, mistaken identity, and misunderstood events. Another film adaptation of the famous novel Ikku Jippensha Footing It Along the Tokaido (Tokaidochu Hizakurige)
Released : 29th-Apr-1958

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Human

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
Released : 4th-Nov-1962

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Red Lion

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.
Released : 10th-Oct-1969

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Lucky Dragon No. 5

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.
Released : 18th-Feb-1959

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Tree Without Leaves

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.
Released : 15th-Nov-1986

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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them. In Part II, the search for the scrolls continues.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1958

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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman. As a boy Yamada, experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.
Released : 31st-Oct-1970

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Demon

Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where he's become an honest fisherman.
Released : 31st-Aug-1985

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An Inn at Osaka

An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
Released : 20th-Apr-1954

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Flower Shop Curtain

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.
Released : 27th-Jan-1959

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Conquest

Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to send her husband into battle.
Released : 21st-Nov-1965

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The Iron Crown

A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.
Released : 22nd-Apr-1972

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Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

1958 Japanese movie
Released : 7th-Dec-1958

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Black Board

Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns out to have been murdered by two of his schoolmates, who he had been bullying.
Released : 17th-Sep-1986

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My Way

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
Released : 7th-Sep-1974

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Nami kage

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
Released : 31st-Jan-1965

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The Ditch

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
Released : 27th-Jul-1954

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Love's Family Tree


Released : 22nd-Nov-1961

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Children on the Island

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.
Released : 11th-Jul-1987

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Story of a Beloved Wife

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.
Released : 7th-Sep-1951

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Arashi Tatsunari

Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this story depicts a woman's difficult choice for love. Ayako, played by Yukiyo Toake, is an international conference coordinator. Torn between her childhood sweetheart (played by Kenji Sawada) and her English professor (played by Noboru Nakaya), Ayako will seek answers to love, marriage, and choice.
Released : 25th-Aug-1982

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The Life of Chikuzan

A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.
Released : 17th-Mar-1977

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喜劇 駅前飯店

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.
Released : 23rd-Dec-1962

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The Scent of Incense

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
Released : 24th-May-1964

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The Radish and the Carrot

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…
Released : 3rd-Jan-1965

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Izayoi kaidō


Released : 14th-Dec-1951

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Murahachibu

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections
Released : 21st-Mar-1953

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TV Credits

樅ノ木は残った

Hatsuno - Depicting Date clan’s internal strife that occurred during a peaceful Edo period governed by the 4th Tokugawa shogun.
Released : 4th-Jan-1970

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太閤記

Oetsu - Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1965

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横溝正史シリーズII・仮面舞踏会

- Kindaichi becomes involved in the case of an actress whose husbands keep dying mysteriously — and her new fiancé has just received a threatening letter.
Released : 3rd-Jun-1978

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おしん

Oshin (50 to 84 years old) - Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the life of Shin Tanokura during the Meiji period up to the early 1980s. Shin was called "Oshin", which is an archaic Japanese cognomen.
Released : 4th-Apr-1983

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ありがとう

九静香 -
Released : 2nd-Apr-1970

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浅見光彦ミステリー

- Crime mysteries from 1987 to 1990 based on Yasuo Uchida's novels starring Yutaka Mizutani.
Released : 8th-Sep-1987

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女の夏

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Released : 29th-Jun-1975

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朝比奈周平ミステリー

朝比奈容子 -
Released : 6th-Mar-1991

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