Tsutomu Shimomoto
Birthday: Born in 1917-10-02 in Kochi, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Deathday: 2000-11-29
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木枯し紋次郎
Character: Bungoro
Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been traveling aimlessly with a long toothpick in his mouth. Monjiro avoided getting involved in anything, but wherever he went, he ended up getting involved in incidents...
北の家族
Character: 佐々木辰造
The 13th NHK Asadora. Starring Youko Takahashi in a story about a brother and sister coming of age in Hakodate and Kanazawa....
東京の秋
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A unique drama that contrasts the lives of a family of elite salarymen in Tokyo and a family of landowners in Tokorozawa, Saitama, while exploring the timeless themes of drama such as human happiness, love and marriage in their everyday lives, told in a straightforward narrative style....
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Fifth Movement
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When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinist returns to his home and manages to get the orchestra back together for a grandiose performance, saved at the last minute by their original conductor -- and boding well for the future of the die-hard musicians....
Kono ni uruwashi
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1962 Japanese movie...
Foundry Town
Character: Tôgo
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education....
Children of Hiroshima
Character: Natsue Morikawa's husband (Marido da Natsue Morikawa)
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath....
Break Down that Wall
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A man is wrongfully accused of murder....
Don't Ever Die, Mama!
Character: Father
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The Heart
Character: Hioki's elder brother
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past....
Yuganda tsuki
Character: Kurokawa
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Mune yori mune ni
Character: Jûkichi Kusaka
Japanese drama...
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
Character: Onishi
Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction with the Africans he meets reveals to him that he has been living a lie, and that he is not the man he thought he was....
Fountainhead
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A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply....
The Sleeping Beast Within
Character: Nagamine
A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama's Chinatown....
Vacuum Zone
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Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn about Kitani's past and reasons behind his prison sentence....
The War Without Weapons
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It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amendment of the Peace Preservation Law, and was assassinated by a rightist prior to his opposition speech....
Beyond the Green Hills
Character: Principal
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of ...
Story of a Prostitute
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Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes....
The Ditch
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Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house....
The Wolves
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A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families....
The Song of the Season
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A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces....
Hana to musume to shiroi michi
Character: Mr. Kimura
One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles....
"Guys Who Never Learn" Part 2
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Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn"....
Gone in the Rain
Character: Nampû Takahata
Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from their career and love life. Soon, their room share takes a turn, when ideals begin to clash with reality....
The Tomb & the Divorce
Character: Akira
Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male friend at her leather-working class, Yoshinori has a fit. This is on top of the myriad of odd clients that he must appease....
Crest of Betrayal
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Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil....
Kikenna onna
Character: Yoshiko's husband Masao
Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper....
The Beautiful Teenager
Character: Shigeru Terauchi
A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him....
Distant Love
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A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman....
A Chain of Islands
Character: Superintendent General of the Metropolitan Police
When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncovers a black market scheme involving counterfeit money, murder, and conspiracy....
The Matsukawa Incident
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Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident....
Desperate Pursuit
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In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sniper. After the news reaches Japan, the CEO's lawyer, Yamamoto, receives a visit from two men that attempt to steal the deceased CEO's will. This is witnessed by two detectives, Tsuzuki and Ōnuki, but they fail to catch the perps. Yamamoto hands the detectives a set of keys before he stops breathing. Tsuzuki and Ōnuki now have to investigate Kurata's murder......
House on Fire
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In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work...
Jugyo Sankan no Onna
Character: Principal
One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised to see a call girl he once had an encounter with standing among the parents in the back of the classroom. According to the school's files, her name is Yukako Sawada, and her child Eisaku has no legal father. The next day, Eisaku gives Tasaka a letter from Yukako asking to meet at the hotel where they first met, and Tasaka sets out with an uneasy fee...
The Swan Elegy
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One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering between two men, learns from her father that she is the child of her deceased mother and uncle. In this ambitious work, Sayuri Yoshinaga takes on the role of a girl who loves two men at the same time. The latest work from the golden duo of director Katsumi Nishikawa and actress Sayuri Yoshinaga, who created many masterpieces such as “The Izu Dancer”....
Miniature
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Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate....
Akitsu Hot Springs
Character: Army Doctor
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring....
The Thick-Walled Room
Character: Kimura
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole....
Tenchu!
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A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage....
Wakai hito-tachi
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Ishigassen
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Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a stone battle took place. Takemaru, the only son of the priesthood of Tada Shrine, was weak and was always forced to carry stones. However, neither swimming nor stone-throwing was a secret to his sick mother, Kouko... Seishi Matsumaru, Ryuichi Yoshida, and Ado Matsuyama were adapted from "Tenmangu" and "Ishigassen", directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi of "...
The Four Loves
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A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each of the daughters has a romantic interest and it's noticeable that the father, too, has someone in mind....
High Teen
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Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when put in charge of the third year class C, reputed to be the most incorrigible in the whole school, he is faced with surly opposition from the start. However, Terasaki perseveres. His greatest headaches are three students ... Sanae, who develops a "crush...
Ningen Gari
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A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out....
Female Doctor in the Surgical Ward
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Izumi Kayo, who works as a surgeon at a university medical school affiliated hospital in the Sanin region, is in love with Katano Shuji, a lecturer who is taking an elite course at the same first surgery department. Kayo asks her mentor, First Surgery Professor Hida Kiichiro, to agree to her marriage with Katano, but is refused. In fact, Hida had always had feelings for Kayo......