Ureo Egawa
Birthday: Born in 1902-05-07 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Deathday: 1970-05-20
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ウルトラQ
Character: Professor Ichinotani
As supernatural events and monster attacks rock Japan, the military and government look to be overwhelmed. Three intrepid young investigators—two pilots and a reporter—take it upon themselves to study these unexplained phenomena in order to inform and protect the public. With allies and science aiding them on their journey, the trio must separate myth from history as they explore the greater mysteries of these occurrences: are they unrelated, or is this barrage somehow a portent of even worse t...
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Escapade in Japan
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A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off on an unintended journey across the country....
Long Way to Okinawa
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1962 Japanese movie...
Aizen katsura
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1954 Japanese movie...
Sunset Over Mount Fuji
Character: Baba Tokei
Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi...
The Age of Beginnings
Character: Brother-In-law Kohei
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets into trouble ending up at the police station slammer overnight. He has no material to write about and, with his assignment unfulfilled, faces a cross editor....
続新入社員十番勝負 サラリーマン一刀流
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1962 Japanese movie...
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Character: Henry
Set in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge to be friends. But when a youth named Henry appears on his motorcycle and offers to take Sunako for a ride, we know that this friendship won't last and that the lives of both girls will change in ways they are barely able to comprehend, and can do little to change....
Kuro-uma no danshichi
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Devil Princess’ Beauty Competition
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An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a charming princess and a dashing youngster, performs songs and dances throughout the film until the big decisive battle....
Mid-August Commotion
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A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War....
The Man Who Waited
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A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts snooping around, however, he finds himself reluctantly drawn in to the case....
Woman of Tokyo
Character: Ryoichi
Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition....
Divorce
Character: Shôgo Yamamura
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Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter
Character: Yuzuru Yagibashi
The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its heroine, Yumie Sone. Over two hours long, Seven Seas was released theatrically in two parts, with the first part entitled "Virginity Chapter" coming out in December 1931, while the second part, "Chastity Chapter," followed in March 1932. Near the beginning of the narrative, at a garden party given by the wealthy Yagibashi family in Tokyo, Yumie mee...
Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter
Character: Yuzuru
Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous Sone family....
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
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1962 Japanese movie...
ABC Lifeline
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Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu....
Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
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Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required....
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
Character: Tetsuo Horino
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs....
The Storm
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A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone....
Green Earth
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Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their families, for the company in order to construct a canal. There are young Chinese resisting the Japanese in this area....
Demon King of Yoja Manor
Character: Professor Sakurada
During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles’ star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita collapses on stage at Cabaret Copacana. Goro Hayatori, deputy director of Hayatori Hospital, grows suspicious of Akuri, founder of the new religion “Reihi-kyo,” who had predicted these incidents. Together with his fiancée Mitsuko Nogata and friend Chief Kamimura, he investigates Akuri. It’s revealed that Akuri conspired with Dr. Sakurada, a psychiatrist, using a brainwave-disrupting ray to cause Tsu...
Apart from You
Character: Guest
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy....
The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
Character: Enatsu
This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict. 'Virtually plotless, and feeling more like comic sketches than fully developed stories,' writes Arthur Nolletti, Jr, 'these light comedies, or farces, take a wholly trivial matter (often a socially embarrassing situation) and use it as a springboard for a succession of g...
白頭巾現わる
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1949 Japanese movie...
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Character: Navy Minister Yamamoto
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for....
Queen of Asia
Character: Naniwa Kawashima
Japanese war film based on the true story of Yoshiko Kawashima, played by actress Miyuki Takakura in her film debut....
Daigaku no kengō: Keiraku no abarenbō
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Japanese youth film about kendo....
日米花嫁花婿入替取替合戦
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Japanese comedy film....
Dimple of Tokyo
Character: Manager
Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (the president) run away from the job. Nobuko took Buntaro to her home and introduced him to her own family as friend, "Sachio-san"......
The Shadow Avenger
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For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called “Kageboshi” (Shadow Avenger), will fight for the common folk, robbing the rich so the people will have rice. Tanuma’s henchmen will hire an evil swordsman to pose as Kageboshi, starting a wave of murder, kidnapping and robbery, searching for two antique sword-guards that will reveal the hiding place of a fortune in buried gold. But who will claim the...
The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
Character: Counsel Shimazu
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor ag...
Twilight Saloon
Character: Yamaguchi
Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in an experimental style, weaving in a variety of music in this ambitious ensemble drama....
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....
Flirtation in Spring
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Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan....
First Steps Ashore
Character: Shige
Early Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama....
Island Girl
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Japanese silent film....
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
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The Ceiling at Utsunomiya
Character: Kawamura Utsubo
Ryutaro is a spy employed by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is the target of assassination attempts that aim to hand power over to his younger brother Tadanaga. Before learning of these plots, Ryutaro discovers himself in a predicament of his own when he rushes to the defence of a local girl who is caught between her boyfriend and a greedy businessman. The situation results in many violent one-on-one skirmishes between Ryutaro and the businessman’s many samurai defendants, one of whom enigmati...
Tsuki yori no haha
Character: Mataji Uchida
Japanese drama film....
The Escape
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Film about the 2-26 Incident....
Happy Times
Character: Yasuo Tsuda
A young couple is harrased by an uncle....
Unending Advance
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One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian problems of a middle-aged salaryman and his family segues into an idyllic dream of an implausible future. The surviving print, although incomplete, offers an essential glimpse into Uchida’s prewar period, when he was associated more with realist dramas than with the period films that dominated his work after the war....
Oath on the Burning Sands
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A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woman (Ri) aside if he is to succeed at building a highway through the "bandit"- (aka anti-Japanese militia-) infested hinterlands....
Jirocho in Disgrace
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Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
Character: Navy Minister Saigo
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Four Marriages
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Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he is visiting to arrange an engagement for his friend who has been drafted to fight in the war....
A Pebble by the Wayside
Character: Nobuyoshi Kumakata
Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home. An intelligent teacher wants to send him to middle school, but instead the father apprentices him to a clothing store to which he is in debt. The mother dies and the boy is forced to quit work when his father insults the store owner. Later the boy goes to Tokyo, but onl...
Equinox Flower
Character: Schoolmate Nakanish
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat....
The Prosecutor and His Sister
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Living Image
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A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period....
An Enemy of the People
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Tadashi Imai 1946 movie...
Morishige no demakase shinshi
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Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control....
Sky of Hope
Character: Vunoshin Narishima
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942....
Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet....
The Dead Beauty Incident
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A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the investigation headquarters. Since the cause of death was poison gas, he asked Yusaku Tominaga (Tsukigata), a now retired drug crime specialist, to cooperate. Kubota and his friends soon find the house of the murdered beauty and upon entering, they are surprised to find another corpse, this time of a man…...