Chieko Baisho
Birthday: Born in 1941-06-29 in Kita, Tokyo, Japan
Deathday: Alive
Chieko Baisho (倍賞 千恵子, Baishō Chieko, born June 29, 1941) is a Japanese actress and singer. In Japan, she is well known for her performance as Sakura in the "Otoko wa Tsurai yo" series from 1969 until 1995. In addition, she has acted in many films directed by Yōji Yamada since the 1960s. She won the award for best actress at the 5th Hochi Film Award for "A Distant Cry from Spring".
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あにき
Character: Toko
The series tells about the life of construction foreman Eiji and his sister. Both have a love interest: she has a boyfriend, and he has a young girl. The sister is thinking about marriage, and the brother has too strict principles to recklessly rush into the abyss of passion....
まんさくの花
Character: 伊吹絹代
The story follows the Nakamori family in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, where half of the year is buried by deep snow....
幸福相談
Character:
A light-hearted comedy about love, fortune telling and songs of life that begins when a couple of sisters and brothers meet. It depicts a group of coming-of-age men and women earnestly seeking for love....
すずらん
Character: Moe Tokiwa / Moe Hidaka
In 1924, a time when both steam engine trains and early Showa Era's first train stations are just beginning. In the waiting room of Asumoe Station, a small country station, a passenger finds an abandoned baby and rushes to tell the station master, Tokiwa Jiro. The news quickly spreads and soon friends of Tokiwa's along with other townsfolk are saying that this baby must be a gift, it is Tokiwa's recently departed beloved wife reborn as a baby....
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The Yellow Handkerchief
Character: Mitsue Shima
The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a yellow handkerchief on the window, it would mean that she wants him back at home....
Kabei: Our Mother
Character: Hatsuko Nogami
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sust...
The Hidden Blade
Character: Mrs. Katagiri
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend....
In Broad Daylight
Character: Yoshiko Koshiishi
After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindler buddies. However, one by one, his friends start getting caught. Katsuji decides to play a high stakes game of robbing the proceeds of a department store....
Dolls floating down the river
Character: Fumiko
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....
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
Character:
1962 Japanese movie...
The Soundless Cry
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Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gave her. It is discovered that the pills contained poison. He is apprehended on suspicion of murder and taken away for interrogation, unable to defend himself - being deaf and dumb - or even to proclaim his innocence....
Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
Character:
1962 Japanese movie...
The Sun of Love and Tears
Character: Kazumi Kitamura
The golden duo of Yukio Hashi and Chieko Baisho. A film rich in a variety of songs, dances and falling in love to the rhythm of Yukio Hashi's song of the same name....
The River Yokobori
Character: Taka
Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just tried to play with her like a sweet candy, but Taka fell in love with him. One day, the father-in-law suddenly dies, and the Kawashima-ya family fortune is rapidly changing. However, the depravity of Kichisaburo does not subside......
A Distant Cry from Spring
Character: Tamiko Kazami
The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind....
Jungle Emperor Leo
Character: Lyre (voice)
Tezuka Osamu's most famous work "Jungle Emperor Leo" has been made into an animated version a number of times. In this theater version, Tezuka Osamu was able for the first time to depict the theme that "All life is equal" through Leo's self-sacrifice....
The Village
Character: Hideko Kono
This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and, being that they are farmers and always busy and not rich, question the wisdom and feasibility of such an idea. A spokesperson for the acting troupe Ms. Kono lays out the whole thing and they must decide. You get little slices of rural life in Japan far, at least in sentiment, from Tokyo. The best thing about this film is that it has heart. The actin...
Samurai from Nowhere
Character: Chigusa
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. Into the mix comes Oba Gunjuro (Tetsurō Tamba), a mysterious ronin who will do anything for money. This leads to a fitting climax as the forces of hate and love converge while the couple attempt to break through the border!...
I, the Executioner
Character: Haruko
Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide....
Station
Character: Michio Kiriko
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers....
Downtown Heroes
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The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War....
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Character: Sakura
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling for his artist sister....
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Character: Sakura
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him....
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Character: Sakura
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha....
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Character: Sakura
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya....
Plan 75
Character: Michi Tsunotani
In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death....
Home from the Sea
Character: Tamiko Ishizaki
On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the deepest affection for this piece of land they call home, and the simple life they lead. But rapid industrial growth makes it all but impossible to continue their chosen living style, and they are forced to leave their beloved hometown in search of a brighter future. But their hometown lingers on their hearts, and they dream of a time when they may once...
Tracing the Gray Summer
Character: Sonia (voice)
Animated film about the Seveso disaster, which took place north of Milan, Italy in 1976....
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Character: Sakura
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer....
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Character: Sakura
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking he's found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest's divorced daughter....
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Character: Sakura
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches....
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Character: Sakura
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....
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Character: Sakura
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata....
Tora-san's Runaway
Character: Sakura
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job....
Our Marriage
Character: Saeko Hibino
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere....
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Character: Sakura
After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride....
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Character: Sakura
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels....
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Character: Sakura
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san to help find him, he falls in love with her, and secretly hopes the husband will not be found....
The Fantastic Adventures of Unico
Character: The West Wind (voice)
When Unico, a young unicorn, is banished from his family by a pantheon of manipulative gods, his powers of joy and happiness are tested as he explores the lands with his friends Beezle and Katy....
Unico in the Island of Magic
Character: The West Wind (voice)
A young unicorn named Unico must fight an evil magician and save everyone who's trapped under his spell....
Tora-san's Love Call
Character: Sakura
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways....
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Character: Sakura
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals for the affection of Chiyo....
San'nin musume kanpai!
Character:
1962 Japanese movie...
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Character: Sakura
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san....
Where Spring Comes Late
Character: Tamiko
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer....
Tora-san's Lovesick
Character: Sakura
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow....
Tora-san's Lullaby
Character: Sakura
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again. During his travels, Torajiro meets a father who shares a drink with him. In the morning, Torajiro is shocked to learn that the man has left his baby behind and a note asking Tora to take care of the child....
Ai to kanashimi to
Character:
1962 Japanese movie...
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Character: Sakura
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to study, he falls for Toraya's new tenant instead....
Oh, My Comrade!
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Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One day Fukuzo guides Harumi, an old woman, to the Yasukuni Shrine where the souls of fallen soldiers are enshrined. Finding she has no place to go, Fukuzo carries her to his shack by the sea....
It All Began When I Met You
Character: Kotoko
Six love stories following the love lives of ten different people....
Women of Tokyo
Character: Kiyomi Nishihara
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Tora-san's Pure Love
Character: Sakura
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother....
Yosakoi Journey
Character:
A drama by director Masaharu Segawa....
Thousand Cranes
Character:
April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts winning, she starts getting tired more easily. She is sent back to the American Base Victory Hospital, where the diagnosis is lymphatic leukemia. And she has no more than a year left to live. Her parents agree with the doctor that Sadako should not be told, but will she find out anyway ?...
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Character: Sakura
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo....
Drunkard's Paradise
Character:
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol....
Two Iida
Character: Michi Aizawa
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....
The Little House
Character: Taki Nunomiya
Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof....
Topsy-Turvy Journey
Character:
A drama from director Masaharu Segawa....
Tora-san Plays Cupid
Character: Sakura
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with a young waitress....
A Heartful of Love
Character: Tomoe Kakuta
Hiroshi, a 30 year-old businessman, has traveled back in time 20 years. He encounters Kazumi, a young woman who was gravely ill. Hiroshi regarded this as an opportunity to help the young woman from his past, the memory of whom he had always cherished....
Tora-san, My Uncle
Character: Sakura
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo....
The Rainbow Seeker
Character:
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films to the residents of his small town....
Tora-san Makes Excuses
Character:
Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto as his love interest or "Madonna"....
Hameln
Character: Ritsuko
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Stage-Struck Tora-san
Character: Sakura
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up to Tora-san....
Mama, I Need You!
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After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a job in a small laundry in downtown Tokyo and works hard till late at night. At a nearby restaurant a brother and sister are working, and Kazuo becomes friendly with the girl, Yoneko. Love blossoms between the two. However, Yoneko's brother objects to his sister marrying Kazuo....
Naite waratta hanayome
Character:
1962 Japanese movie...
Talk of the Town Tora-san
Character: Sakura
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya....
Hoshikuzu no Machi
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大安旅行
Character: 新庄晴子
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It's Tough Being a Man
Character: Sakura
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sakura's chance to marry someone, as well as just being a real pain to those around him. There is a sentimental side to him also, and the best way to describe him is that he grows on you....
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Character: Sakura
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride....
Dislikes
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An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a trip with the girl, but they are followed by a yakuza and all hell breaks loose....
A Trap
Character: Kiriko Yanagida
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder ...
Our Wonderful Years
Character: Fumiko
The story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from th 1920's to the 1960's....
Tora-san's Matchmaker
Character: Sakura
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring Mitsuo back home, himself falls in love with an attractive but troubled woman visiting her father....
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Character: Sakura
Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a friend’s sister. Tora-san meanwhile helps an injured housewife on her yearly vacation....
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Character: Sakura
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in Oita. Meanwhile, Izumi’s mother befriends Tora-san and together they travel to Oita to meet them, with Tora-san quickly falling for her en route....
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Character: Sakura
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist....
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Character: Sakura
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in work. Tora-san follows her to Shikinejima, and attempts to bring her back to her home. In doing so he encounters a school-reunion group who are traveling to meet their elementary school teacher, which is a reference to the film Twenty-Four Eyes by Keisuke Kinoshita. Tora-san joins them and falls in love with the teacher....
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Character: Sakura
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as “daddy”....
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Character: Sakura
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship....
Tora-san to the Rescue
Character: Sakura
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else....
Tora-san Confesses
Character: Sakura
When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But Izumi unexpectedly meets Tora-san....
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Character: Sakura
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan....
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Character: Sakura
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist....
Tora-san, the Expert
Character: Sakura
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo....
Tora-san's Promise
Character: Sakura
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all his ex-classmates, he resumes his travels. In Kyushu he meets an outspoken 18-year-old girl who becomes enamored of Tora-san and follows him around. One of Tora-san's old friends is terminally ill and makes Tora-san promise him to marry his wife once he is gone....
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Character: Sakura
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living National Treasure ceramist. At his home, Tora-san makes a good impression on the old man's maid, who apparently falls in love with Tora-san....
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Character: Sakura
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his family that he plans to marry her. His plans are foiled when the geisha informs Tora-san that she is engaged....
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Character: Sakura
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam....
Tora-san's Song of Love
Character: Sakura
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer....
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Character: Sakura
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman's daughter, but winds up acting as a go-between for her and a young law student....
Ballad of a Workman
Character: Miyoko Ishikawa, Toshiyuki's girlfriend
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family....
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Character: Sakura
Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san....
Sing, Young People
Character: Yuko Nakajima
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star....
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
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Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight when she replaces her in a film and gains instant fame and fortune. But the going is not always easy, and she soon seeks help from unexpected quarters....
Tokyo Newcomer
Character: Old Woman
A young Chinese Go board game player arrives in Japan for training. He doesn't speak Japanese and becomes embarrassed living there. By dropping his Go stones, he happens to meet an old Japanese woman who sells vegetables on the street. They become familiar with each other. The young Chinese Go player, the old woman named Igarashi and her grandson Shoichi then live together....
As the Clouds Scatter
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A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil....
The Sunshine Girl
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A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life....
The Rainbow Seeker 2
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Sequel to The Rainbow Seeker where Ryo meets Katsu on a small island in the south of Japan. There, he falls in love for a single mother....
Our Happiness Alone
Character: Yoshiko Sakawa
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Mototsugu becomes disgusted with such strait-laced living and leaves home to marry Yoshiko, a blind masseuse, and they live in a small apartment near a pinball parlor where he works....
The Lovable Tramp
Character: Aiko Kazami
Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time....
Honokaa Boy
Character: Bee
Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an older Japanese-Caucasion woman....
Karate Cop 2
Character:
Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the robbers' whereabouts....
The Image of Mother
Character: Oshino
A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless....
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
Character: Sakura
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side....
Hadashi no hanayome
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Japanese comedy film....
Gamblers' Luck
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A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry....
Che, Che, Che with Love
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A musical romance....
Women Who Do Not Divorce
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Keiichi (Kenichi Hagiwara) is a weather man. He gets involved with two married women, Yoshiko (Mitsuko Baisho) and Miyoko (Chieko Baisho). Both want to divorce but are trapped in meaningless marriages. While being undecided of who he wants to chose, Keiichi witnesses passions boil to an unforgiving climax....
Glory on the Summit
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A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing....
Only the Cat Knows
Character: Yukiko
Masaru and Yukiko have been married 44 years. They have three children who live independently from them. Masaru and Yukiko enjoy their peaceful days, but, one day, Yukiko tells her daughter Naoko that she wants to divorce Masaru....
The Night We Danced
Character:
Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together....
Lover's Duet
Character: Eiko Takayama
A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name....
Twenty-Four Eyes
Character: Hisako Ōishi (voice)
TV adaptation of the novel "Twenty-Four Eyes", combining animation with a few live-action scenes....
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Character: Sakura Suwa (Torajiro's sister)
The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo, Tora-san’s nephew, who runs into Izumi, his first love, whom he had once promised to marry. The familiar faces of Kurumaya Cafe, which Tora-san’s family ran in Shibamata, also return. Catching up with old friends, it is always their dearest memories of Tora-san which everyone shares on such occasions…...
Weathering with You
Character: Fumi Tachibana (voice)
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful abilit...
Howl's Moving Castle
Character: Sophie (voice)
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king....
Zatoichi: The Last
Character: Mitsu
A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle....
Let's Have A Dream
Character: Aiko
A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of money from Switzerland....
Song of Love
Character: Haruko Tachibana
The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people....
The Greatest Challenge of All
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After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem....
The Million Dollar Pursuit
Character: Miss
Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds....
Vagabond Schemer
Character: Tsuruyo
The return of a man to Japan from Borneo creates chaos in a village....
Shichinin no keiji
Character: Miyoko Sekiguchi
Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out for a drive, the strangled corpse of a call girl is discovered in Toyamagahara. Chief Akagi, Detective Sergeant Sawada, and the other detectives begin to suspect Koji during their investigation. Koji insists he's innocent, but has no evidence to prove it. Even when detectives come to Miyoko's home and workplace and her coworkers begin to look down o...
My Voiceless Friends
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A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families....
Get Married, Mother
Character: Yukiyo Aoki
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461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son
Character: Natsuko Suzumoto
Kazuki Suzumoto is divorced and he lives with his 15-year-old son Kouki. Kouki is in a susceptible time. The father feels guilty about his son. Kouki then fails his high school entrance exam. In the spring of the following year, Kouki barely passes his high school entrance exam. Kouki mentions to Kazuki that he likes his father's lunch box. The father and son make a promise to each other. Kazuki promises that he will make a lunch box everyday for Kouki. Kouki promises that he will never skip sch...
Tora-san Goes North
Character: Sakura
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested....
Warm Current
Character: Gin Ishiwata
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Arc
Character: Rina
Set in the near future, Rina lives a wandering life and she meets Ema. Ema becomes a mentor for Rina and Rina begins to work for Ema. Her job is called body works, which is to plasticize dead bodies for people who lost loved ones. Meanwhile, Ema’s younger brother Amane develops technology that is finally able to achieve immortality. Rina becomes the first recipient of the technology. She can now live forever, while having a 30-year-old appearance, but ......
55th anniversary performance of Tora-San: Rakugo, Talk and Tora Jiro Returns
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This special performance was held to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the release of the film Tora-San. The event was a must-see for fans and non-fans alike, featuring rakugo stories reminiscent of the world of Tora-san, a new rokyoku based on the secret story of the birth of Otoko wa Tsuraiyo, and a rare talk show featuring director Yamada and other speakers sharing their thoughts. Rokyoku ‘Tora-san no Shussei’ (The Birth of Tora-san) Tamagawa Tafuku Rakugo ‘Matsuyama Kagami’ by Yanagitei...