Aiko Mimasu
Birthday: Born in 1902-11-02 in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Deathday: 1982-01-18
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大奥
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The Ooku of Edo Castle was a mysterious existence that could not be seen from the outside for 300 years in Tokugawa. Love and hate, and fierce power struggles were fought among the women day and night....
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Rogue
Character: Fusayo
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the pair enjoy several "fish-out-of-water" sequences before finding employment at a boxing gym with trainer Sawada and his spunky sister Tomoko. The boys also find part time night jobs as roving minstrels in the club district courtesy of benevolent gang boss Asakawa. Of course, they run afoul of boss Karasawa's cruel gang. Karasawa also has it in for Asak...
The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
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Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. After serving four and a half years in prison, Masa and his brother Katsuji leave Kobe to go to Nagoya to help a hostess get her daughter back from her mother. As they arrive in Nagoya, they get into a scuffle with the local yakuza affiliate. Sugawara and Kawaji's chemistry is even more evident here th...
Street of Shame
Character: Yumeko
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law....
Kurohyō
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These Foolish Times
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Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
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1962 Japanese movie...
Yearning
Character: Shizu Morita
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....
母山彦
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Japanese Women's Textbook
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The Monkey King
Character: Yoyo
A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a mission to prevent a demonic resurrection. As Genjo Sanzo, Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojyo, and Son Goku (Kenichi Enomoto) fight their way to their goal, their path is fraught with internal strife....
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Character: Notsubone Toda
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge....
Nagareru hoshi wa ikiteiru
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Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara...
This Greedy Old Skin
Character: Oshika
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs....
The Paths of Two Maidens
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Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers....
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Character: Aki Sakanishi
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....
The Storm of the Pacific
Character: Sato
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 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Mid...
Raised in a Palace
Character: Osen
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a geisha at night She sees her future as an entertainer, not a prostitute, & she expects a happy marriage with a medical student, Yasuke (Katsuo Nakamura), a sweet fellow she deeply loves. but things started to getting worse for Tamiko and she's forced to become the mistress of the disgusting Tsukada (Seiji Miyaguchi)....
Classmates
Character: Sadako Shiratori
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II....
Human Torpedoes
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Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War....
The Last Kamikaze
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With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission....
The End of the Night
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Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision will lead to a long, dark night of the soul, while his lady love, a bar hostess, tries to cope with her sudden change of fortune....
The Lovelorn Geisha
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A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'....
The Wiser Age
Character: Matsuyo Tamura
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....
The Machine Gun Dragon
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Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and the mafia....
An Osaka Story
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A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo....
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
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There Was a War When I Was a Child
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An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War....
Yakuza of the Present
Character: Yone
In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant decides to rise up again when he sees his former family being overrun by a modern yakuza group from the Kansai region....
Kojiro
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Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi (Tatsuya Nakadai). Oscar winning Hiroshi Inagaki directs this epic motion picture based on Genzo Murakami’s fascinating story. Despite his humble birth, the orphan Sasaki Kojiro (Onoe Kikunosuke) is determined to become the foremost swordsman in all Japan, a title that traditionally belongs to a nobleman. At fencing school, young Kojiro receives the co...
Sanbaba
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A story about being scared of getting old....
Kisses
Character: Ryoko Uno
Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at the beach....
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Character: Tatsu Onuma
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history....
The Naked General
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A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities....
The Ginza Three Boys
Character: Kiku Takarai
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl....
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
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Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler....
母子鶴
Character: Nobuko Tsuji
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Classmates
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A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II....
Sazae And Aunt Apron
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An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip...
Sazae-san Plays Cupid
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An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic....
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
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A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa....
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Character: Ai
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the Choshu and Satsuma clans. This is the story of Tsukigat Khanpayit, the sword maker of the Choshu clan, who, along with Katsuro Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma, sought to fulfill the dream of a new peaceful era in Japan. Can he realize his ideals or will he die in the chaos of internecine fights......
Tales of the Inner Chamber
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Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle....
五十円横町
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August Moon
Character: Fuji Mishima
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Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
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Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he met Torajiro, a master of kendo, who had just left prison after slashing his adoptive father who stole his son's wife. Torajiro was on his way to his brother-in-law, Iwai. While talking about themselves, they someday felt something similar to friendship....
Radio Queen
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Children Seeking a Mother
Character: Aki Yamamoto
While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son....
Mother
Character: Kiyo Yuasa
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Daiei Studio is Bustling
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A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars....
Moonlight in the Rain
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A home drama about a mother and her three daughters, based on the novel by Fumiko Hayashi....
Sugamo's Mothers
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Directed by Nobuo Adachi and starring Aiko Mimasu as a mother who lost three of her four sons to war. Aki is an elderly mother who has lost three of her sons to war. She is happy to be reunited with her youngest son, who has been demobilized from the South, only to find him imprisoned in Sugamo Prison as a suspected war criminal. The mother wishes only to be reunited with her son, but she falls ill from overwork and heartache......
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
Character: Yone (maid)
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 past, she must decide whether to run or face it—with help from a kind local officer....