Hisaya Morishige
Birthday: Born in 1913-05-04 in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Deathday: 2009-11-10
Hisaya Morishige (森繁久彌, Morishige Hisaya, May 4, 1913 – November 10, 2009) was a Japanese actor and comedian. Born in Hirakata, Osaka, he graduated from Kitano Middle School (now Kitano High School), and attended Waseda University. He began his career as a stage actor, then became an announcer for NHK, working in Manchukuo. He became famous in films first for comedy roles, appearing in series such as the "Company President" (Shacho) and "Station Front" (Ekimae) series, produced by Toho. He appeared in nearly 250 films, both contemporary and jidaigeki. He was also famous on stage playing Tevye in the Japanese version of Fiddler on the Roof. He also appeared in television series and specials, and was the first guest on the television talk show Tetsuko's Room in 1975. He was long-time head of the Japan Actors Union. Among many honors, Morishige received the Order of Culture from the Emperor of Japan in 1991.
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元禄太平記
Character: Mitsukuni Tokugawa
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関ヶ原
Character: Ieyasu Tokugawa
Blockbuster drama based on the novel Sekigahara by Ryotaro Shiba, a program dedicated to the 30th anniversary of TBS. A total of 120 actors, 3,500 extras and about 500 horses recreated the largest battle in history, the Battle of Sekigahara, in which 200,000 warriors clashed from east and west. The battle, which can be called a turning point in the history of Japan, depicts the conflict, love and hate between people on a grand scale and with a great cast....
白虎隊
Character: Inoue Okazumi
Byakkotai was part of Aizu's four-unit military, set up in the domain's drive to finalize its military modernization, in the wake of the Battle of Toba-Fushimi. The other three units were Genbutai, Seiryūtai, and Suzakutai. Each of the four was named after the protecting gods of compass directions. Byakkotai was meant to be a reserve unit, as it was composed of the young teenage 16 to 17 year old sons of Aizu samurai in a group around 350, who fought in the Boshin War (1868–1869)...
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Princess Mononoke
Character: Chief of Affairs (voice)
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict....
An Urban Affair
Character: Kintaro Togura
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments....
The Longest Tunnel
Character: Gensuke Kishida
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife....
47 Ronin
Character: Hyobu Chisaka
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death....
Yoku
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Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku...
The End of Summer
Character: Isomura Eiichirou
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth....
The Rivals
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The Undefeated Woman
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新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
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新遊侠伝
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Koibito
Character: Manager
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Bengawan Solo
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War film by Kon Ichikawa...
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
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1962 Japanese movie...
Mole Alley
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33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writing Ogata's manuscript, he would buy dorayaki as a gratuity and devour it....
Shimizu Port Salaryman
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Travels of Lord Mito
Character: Kômon Mito
In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals, Sukesaburo and Kakunosuke, under the name of Koemon, a retired peasant....
Goryokaku
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After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country. Survivors of the Shinsengumi were among the followers of Enomoto Takeaki who took them to the northernmost island of Ezo where they fought their final battle at the star shaped fort, Goryokaku. The Japanese Civil Wars fought in the name of th...
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
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1962 Japanese movie...
Zatoichi at Large
Character: Constable Tobei
Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her cruel fate....
Mako Osorubeshi
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Shinibana
Character: Rokusaburō Aoki
After the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled "Shinibana" containing a plan to tunnel into and steal 1.7 billion yen from a bank....
Third Class Executives
Character: Personnel Chief
1950s Japanese comedy....
The Naked Executive
Character: Kôshirô Hidaka
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the loneliest person in Japan." He lost his wife ten years ago and has been living as a widower ever since. He plotted to marry off his 22-year-old daughter Keiko for political gain, but Keiko is in love with Okuda, who is her father's subordinate. A story full of sadness and joy, depicting a man gripped by different thoughts, as an employee of the company and a fa...
Flower Shop Curtain
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The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka....
The White Tiger Battalion
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The Byakkotai was part of Aizu’s four-unit military, set up in the domain’s drive to finalize its military modernization, in the wake of the Battle of Toba-Fushimi. The other three units were Genbutai, Seiryūtai, and Suzakutai. Each of the four was named after the protecting gods of compass directions. Byakkotai was meant to be a reserve unit, as it was composed of the young teenage 16 to 17 year old sons of Aizu samurai in a group of around 350, who fought in the Boshin War (1868–1869)....
Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
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Mount Hakone
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Japanese drama....
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Character: Shozo
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat....
Sayonara Jupiter
Character: Earth Federation President
In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far corners of the solar system, where they discover an ancient alien race from Jupiter as well as the emergence of an apocalyptically dangerous black hole. Koji Hashimoto's 1983 sci-fi adventure was conceived as a Japanese competitor to the upcoming sequel to Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001, titled 2010, and often mirrors the sequel's plot....
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
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Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn....
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
Character: Kintaro
Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem......
Aces Wild
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Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother of the Otorigumi, returned from South America for the first time in 15 years. When he stepped on the soil of his native land, his first thought was to visit Otanuki Fudo, the guardian deity of the Otorigumi, but the Otorigumi had fallen and Otanuki Fudo was on the verge of eviction for the construction of an expressway. Keisuke and Joji put on the s...
Marital Relations
Character: Ryukichi
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year....
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
Character: Toku
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown....
The Masterless 47
Character: Yoshio Oishi
Part one of The Masterless 47....
Two Iida
Character: Riichiro Sugawa
Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima....
Shin kitsune to tanuki
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1962 Japanese movie...
Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
Character: Kanazawa
Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she garners popularity in the slums due to her compassionate care for children. In an attempt to secure a stable future for their child, she enters into marriage with Tsutomu Yamazaki, who struggles with a stutter. Unfortunately, their union is cut short by the untimely death of Tsutomu Yamazaki in an accident....
The Imperial Navy
Character: Naoki Hongo
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War....
Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
Character: Kanazawa
Comedy centered on a stripper agency...
Hadaka no Machi
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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
Character: Denkichi Yoshida
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obsessed with her; Tamie is a hard worker who asks for money from customers to support her mother and daughter Teruko; Tane, who dreams of the day they can be together, gives money to her lover Takeda; Machiko, an apres girl, is selective about her...
This Greedy Old Skin
Character: Hikohachi Mukoyama
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....
3 Gents in the Snow Country
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Shûe Matsubayashi movie...
Sea of Wandering
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Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns from evacuation. The film is based on the novel of the same name written by Teru Miyamoto, and the screenplay was written by Eizo Sugawa, who also wrote "Horagawa". The director is Takeichi Saito, who also directed "Kawachi no Osan no Uta: Yokita no Ware". Kozo Okazaki, who worked on "I am a Cat," is in charge of the cinematography....
Kukai
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The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of India, China and Tibet, then uses their combined influence to establish the Shingon school during the Heian period in early 9th Century AD....
Policeman's Diary
Character: Patrolman Yoshii
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself....
Chutaro of Banba
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Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This heartfelt story concerns a wandering gambler from Banba by the name of Chutaro. Set during the Tenpo Period, Chutaro runs afoul of Boss Sukegoro of Iioka. Pursued by vengeance seeking swordsmen, Chutaro displays his phenomenal martial art skills. Abandoned as a child, he seeks to find his long lost mother, while at the same time fighting off numerous attacks by Ii...
Bot-chan
Character: Akashatsu
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel....
The Tale of the White Serpent
Character: Xu-Xian / Fa-Hai / Panda / Dragon King / Catfish King
As a young boy, Xu-Xian is forced to free his pet, a small snake. Unbeknownst to him, the snake is actually a young snake goddess named Bai-Niang and she is in love with him. Many years later, when they are both adults, the princess is magically transformed into a human and sets out to find her love. But the local wizard believes her to be a vampire, and banishes Xu-Xian from the village in order to save him. Xu-Xian's pet pandas Panda and Mimi set out to save him and bring him, in the process b...
Tokyo Profile
Character: Mr. Maki
A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the crowded streets of Ginza....
Surgical Designs in Flames
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A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures....
Nonki saiban
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A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter....
Temptation on Glamour Island
Character: Navy Captain Prince Tamehisa
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War II....
Life of a Country Doctor
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A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, however, his wife's addiction to gambling is of such a magnitude that he is down to selling his underwear to make money. The image sticks and he becomes known as the 'underwear doctor.' On the other hand, his successful surgery's patient is so grateful he himself wants to become a physician....
The Twilight Years
Character: Shigezo Tachibana
A woman looks after her father in law....
The Unbalanced Wheel
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A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community....
Snow in the South Seas
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Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions....
The Incident
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The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds....
Morishige's Honeymoon
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Japanese comedy film....
A Country Boss
Character: Takeo Aihara
A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage....
Theater Of Life
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Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku....
Snow Country
Character: Imura
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and ...
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
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Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi....
Follow the Girls
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Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers....
Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves
Character: Professor Torino (voice)
Doraemon and his friends have to rescue the people of Birdopia from the wrongdoing of vengeful former bird troopers before they unleash a wicked ancient dragon....
The Maid Story
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Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times....
Tokyo Sweetheart
Character: Akazawa
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings....
The Shop Curtain
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Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki....
Tales of Ginza
Character: Narrator (voice)
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who painted her own portrait fifteen years prior....
The Beauty Expert
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The Hotelman's Holiday
Character: Jihei Ikuno
Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices....
The Masterless 47 – Part II
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Port Arthur
Character: Hirobumi Ito
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the...
Jirocho, the Hunted
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A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run....
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
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Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province....
Jirocho's Home-Coming
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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
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Jirocho the gambler hits the road....
Her Captive Gamblers
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: University
Character: Morita Tokunosuke
#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai)....
Last of the Wild Ones
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A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power....
Chûshingura
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After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor....
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
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The Angry Sea
Character: Hikoichi
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman....
The Wayside Pebble
Character: Shogo Aikawa
In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going well at home, however, where his father does not work leaving the mother to toil . With the boy's family having no money he cannot progress his education and has to drop out of school. A neighbour, who is a bookstore owner, offers the family money to allow the boy to continue his schooling, but the father is too proud to accept and rebuffs the offer fo...
This Madding Crowd
Character: Professor
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Jacks and Jills
Character: Morishita
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Theater of Life
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1958 Theater of Life adaptation....
Yasugorō shusse
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The Yoshida School
Character: Shigeru Yoshida
Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political history after the war....
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Character: Senzo
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura. Meanwhile, a new tenant moves into Toraya restaurant....
The President's Boss
Character: Zennosuke Tashiro
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter....
The President Talks Bank
Character: Zennosuke Tashiro
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements....
Machi no Hi
Character: Kurita
Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex brokerage. Choromatsu is partnered with Umekichi, whom he calls "big brother," in this business. They live on the second floor of the aka-chochin (red lantern) owned by Takeko, where boys and girls who were abandoned at the abandoned children's temple on Mukojima also live together, making up a family of people who are not related to each other....
The Adventures of Kantaro
Character: Kantaro
Comedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa....
Hail the 3 Gents
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Assistant President
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Princess Finds Her Prince
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The Tale of the White Serpent
Character: Narrator (voice)
As a young boy, Xu-Xian is forced to free his pet, a small snake. Unbeknownst to him, the snake is actually a young snake goddess named Bai-Niang and she is in love with him. Many years later, when they are both adults, the princess is magically transformed into a human and sets out to find her love. But the local wizard believes her to be a vampire, and banishes Xu-Xian from the village in order to save him. Xu-Xian's pet pandas Panda and Mimi set out to save him and bring him, in the process b...
Pirates
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Three Generations of Company Presidents
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The third installment in the Shacho Series....
Five Gents' Trick Book
Character: Kutaro Iwato
The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series....
The Child Writers
Character: Mr. Kawahara
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Tabaruzaka
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Known as the ”Last Samurai” Saigo Takamori was a stout giant of a man with a huge head and a neck like a bear. As the leader of Satsuma’s anti-Western faction, he was instumental in establishing the Sat-Cho Alliance dreamed of by Sakamoto Ryoma. After the fall of the Tokugawa, Saigo rose to major prominence before falling in disfavor. In 1876 Saigo Takamori resigned from his government post and went back to Kagoshima. He founded a local military school and dissatisfied samurai gathered around hi...
Could I But Live
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Could I But Live...
The Third President
Character: Keitaro Asakawa
The fifth entry in the Company President Series...
Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
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Sixth entry in the Company President Series....
Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents
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7th film in the President series and the first entry in color....
Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
Character: Shigemori Shigeo
Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"...
Morishige no demakase shinshi
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Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control....
Koi no rantō
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"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she starts performing at a cabaret in Yokohama. Her mother, already settled, found about Reika's whereabouts, but won't acknowledge her daughter for fear of loosing her current status....
Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
Character: Kyusaku Goi
Ensemble comedy....
Morishige, where are you going?
Character: Shigetaro Mori
A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow, is vividly depicted to the tune of "Moonlit Desert" in this humanistic drama full of pathos, starring Hisaya Morishige....
The Preacher of Love
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1961 Japanese movie...
Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
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1961 Japanese movie...
Kigeki: Onna uridashimasu
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The third film in the "Woman" series, based on the original work by Shinji Fujiwara, set in the Shinjuku Entertainment Company....
喜劇 各駅停車
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Travel Stories of a Company President
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It is the 16th series of the call series with the highest masterpiece among the "President" series. The president of the U. s.solar paint, heitaro Domoto (Morishige), has become completely American, and plans to rationalize the company to the American style and prohibit the company's entertainment. Members of the Taiko Kyushu Branch Company (Ryohei Miki), who were living in the banquet, were hit by a big blow, and the company and the meeting club were very annoying. After that, the president who...
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Pier
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The 24th and final entry in the Ekimae series, set at Takamatsu Station in Kagawa Prefecture, formerly known for its ferry service to the Seto Inland Sea....
遊の人‐天下の御意見番 大久保彦左衛門‐
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Asu wa Nichiyōbi
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A comedy movie for salaryman....
Talkative Company President
Character: Osamu Saotome
A former company man turned drifter is pulled back to lead a struggling toy company, enforcing bold reforms that shake up its corporate culture. Just as success arrives, he quietly walks away, leaving a changed company behind....
New Third-Class Executive
Character: Shirō Sawamura
At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide when the boss is away. As tensions rise around a meddling heiress and a collapsing business deal, one quiet employee steps up to set things right....
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
Character: Shirō Sawamura (Executive Director)
A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all sides. During a company trip to Beppu, personal entanglements and old company secrets surface, forcing difficult choices and quiet compromises....
New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
Character: Shiro Sawamura
World Electric's top ad model disappears, throwing the company into disarray. A fortune-teller’s influence spreads through upper management, sending staff on a misguided search. Misinformation, internal friction, and unexpected revelations push the company to its limits....
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Character: Shirō Sawamura
Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with an academic over a business heir....
Playboy President
Character: Misawa Einosuke
A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to revive struggling sales....
Playboy President: Part II
Character: Eisuke Misawa
After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate matchmaking and a high-stakes business conflict over a critical eel supply....
Travel Stories of a Company President Part II
Character: Heitarō Dōmoto (President)
While on a business trip to Kyushu, a paint company president competes with a rival firm for a key overseas client, only to face setbacks both in work and in the personal affairs of his team....
Company President Travels Abroad
Character: Kazama Keinosuke (President)
Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but become entangled in romantic distractions and miscommunication. By the time they act, the property is lost to a rival, forcing an abrupt return to Tokyo and uncertain outcomes....
Company President Travels Abroad Part II
Character: Keinosuke Kazama (Company President)
As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by local pleasures and personal entanglements. By the time they resume business, the target property is lost to a rival—forcing an abrupt return to Japan with both deals and relationships unresolved....
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
Character: Kyutarō Iwato (President, Iwato Construction)
Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follows—personal conflicts, missed deals, and a lost hotel contract. Redemption comes when they restore a fire-damaged department store, earning overdue payment and a morale boost....
A Company President's Life Story
Character: Kurihara Yaichirō (Sunrise President)
A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by securing new sales partners and chasing a deal with a world-renowned fashion designer....
Five Gents on the Spot
Character: Yaichiro Kurihara
As his fashion company rides a wave of post-recession success, President Kurihara seeks to expand into women’s apparel through a deepening partnership with a French firm....
Discover Japan with the 5 Gents
Character: Keitarō Shōji (President, Shōji Tourism)
In this outing, Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70....
Five Gents Prefer Geisha
Character: Keitarō Shōji (President, Shōji Tourism)
In this continuation of Discover Japan with the 5 Gents (Shacho sen ichiya, 1967), Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70....
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Benten
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The 14th film in the Ekimae series, set in Nagano Prefecture, focusing on the love lives of a group of husbands and their wives....
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Manga
Character: Tokunosuke Morita
15th entry in the Ekimae series, surrounding the then-insanely popular Weekly Shounen Sunday series Osomatsu-kun and Obake no Q-Taro....
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Teapot
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Sixth entry in the Ekimae series, loosely based on the folktale of the tanuki and the tea kettle....
Hot Spring Ghost
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Eighth in the Ekimae series, portraying competition between two hot spring resort owners in Yamanashi....
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Landlady
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Seventh in the Ekimae series, detailing the exploits of the landladies around Ryogoku Station in Tokyo, and their sumo clientele....
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
Character: Keitaro Takayama (Takayama Trading President)
"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company....
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
Character: Keitarō Takayama
An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself....