Keiju Kobayashi
Birthday: Born in 1923-11-23 in Gunma, Japan
Deathday: 2010-09-16
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Keiju Kobayashi (23 November 1923–16 September 2010) was a Japanese actor. Born in Gunma Prefecture, he began acting at the Nikkatsu studio after dropping out of Nihon University and made his film debut in 1942. In a career that spanned 65 years, he appeared in over 250 films, most famously in the "Company President" (Shachō) comedy films made at Toho, where he worked alongside Hisaya Morishige, Daisuke Kato, Norihei Miki, and others. There he helped define the popular image of the postwar salaryman. He also won many awards for his acting, including best actor awards at the Mainichi Film Awards for The Naked General in 1958 (where he played Kiyoshi Yamashita), for Kuroi gashū in 1960, and for The Elegant Life of Mr Everyman in 1963. Kobayashi appeared in films made by such notable directors as Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, and Kihachi Okamoto. He continued to give powerful performances after largely moving to television in the late 1960s. He died on 16 September 2010 of heart failure at the age of 86. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keiju Kobayashi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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火曜サスペンス劇場
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"Tuesday Suspense Theater" was broadcast every Tuesday from 21:00 to 22:54 ( JST ) on the Nippon Television network for 24 years from September 29 , 1981 to September 27, 2005. It was a two-hour drama slot. As a general rule, suspense dramas with one complete episode (very rarely, two parts) were broadcast every week from 21:00 to 22:54 ( JST ). It is a broadcast frame. Some episodes also aired horror, historical dramas, and special effects dramas....
松田聖子のはじめての情事
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かりん
Character: 小森弥之助
A young woman Chiaki whose family runs an old miso company in Nagano Prefecture, the only daughter of old traditional family. For generations, they were making soybean paste for living. Now she needs to take over this business and rebuild it. She lives through the hardships of postwar Japan....
日本沈没
Character: Dr. Yusuke Tadokoro
In this TV series of the hit 1973 film, Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes shake Japan. Firestorms burn beautiful Japanese cities to the ground. A weather survey group discovers that the Japanese Archipelago is moving towards the Japanese Trench, which if left to continue on its collision course, would bring the whole island of Japan under the sea!...
日本沈没
Character: 田所雄介博士
Long-form adaptation of previous year's movie; due to a sudden tectonic shift, the country of Japan starts sinking....
風と雲と虹と
Character: Taira no Yoshimasa
Kaze to kumo to Niji to deals with the Heian period in Japan. Based on Chōgorō Kaionji`s novels Taira no Masakado and Umi to Kaze to Niji to. The drama was made by Go Kato`s request. The story chronicles the life of Taira no Masakado . The story begins with Masakado′s childhood. Masakado happens to meet Fujiwara no Hidesato, and he thinks that he want to be great Samurai like Hidesato in the future....
春の波涛
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それぞれの秋
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A drama that broke new ground with its realistic depiction of various problems within a very ordinary family....
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
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Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however....
Sanjuro
Character: The Spy
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear....
The End of Summer
Character: Hisao
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....
Whisper of the Heart
Character: Shiro Nishi (voice)
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'....
Love's Cheerleader
Character: Mr. Gan
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals...
Chûshingura
Character: Awajinokami Wakisake
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor....
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
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1962 Japanese movie...
恐妻時代
Character: Shinichi Utsumi
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First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
Character: Heima Sakamoto
Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a good-natured man and slow-witted. They are rarely seen together, and others often criticize them for being too boring and uninteresting....
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Character: Toshizo Hijikata
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Sh...
Breakthrough Course of Women in Trouble
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1962 Japanese movie...
Repast
Character: Shinzo Murata
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband....
Shimizu Port Salaryman
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Godzilla 1985
Character: Prime Minister Mitamura
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan....
To Love
Character: Kamijo
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsutomu manages to have his way with her. Coming from a broken home, he is frightened by love, so he cruelly allows her to wake up alone. A month passes and a more grown-up Tsutomu returns. The lovers joyously reunite and move in together. All is blissful until both notice a strange sore on Mitsu's arm. The doctors diagnose it as leprosy. Without tellin...
Third Class Executives
Character: Wakahara
1950s Japanese comedy....
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
Character: Eburi Toshimaru
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story....
Ôban
Character: Policeman
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban....
Samurai Assassin
Character: Einosuke Kurihara
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune....
Yaji and Kita on the Road
Character: Kitahachi Kitariya
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, mistaken identity, and misunderstood events. Another film adaptation of the famous novel Ikku Jippensha Footing It Along the Tokaido (Tokaidochu Hizakurige)...
Submersion of Japan
Character: Dr. Tadokoro
A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, will be pulled into the ocean, killing millions....
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
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A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy....
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
Character: Tomizô Funakoshi
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by Keiju Kobayashi) and the leader of the gang (played by Norihei Miki) have an interesting wartime backstory together that fuels much of the story....
The Storm of the Pacific
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Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Mid...
Mount Hakkoda
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Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia....
Master Fencer Sees the World
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A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young man who has a master license menkyo kaiden in the art of swordsmanship, but weak against lies and women. A remake of Bungaku no Issue, shot by Sadao Yamanaka in 1933....
Tree Without Leaves
Character: Hatsu-rojin
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in....
The Battle of Okinawa
Character: General Ushijima
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the d...
Summer Clouds
Character: Hatsuji
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control....
Sudden Rain
Character: Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door)
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity....
The Thin Line
Character: Isao Tashiro
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved....
Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
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Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
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1958 Japanese movie...
For Business
Character: Mihara
Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble economy....
Judge and Jeopardy
Character: Hiroshi Masaki
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a suspect to death during the Pacific War....
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
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Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the well-established Rokujo family from the beginning. With the support of Jiro, a young man Ine's late husband had saved from homelessness as a young boy, Ine tries to keep the family's heritage of silk processing alive. Their close relationship soon causes gossip among the villagers and threaten Ine's position in the family even further ......
The Man From Chungking
Character: 中原精一
Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?...
The Ambitious
Character: Yoshinosuke Saigo
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy....
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
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A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limitations is about to expire is shown on TV, and detective Kiyoshi Atsumi heads to Tokyo, but... The upstart Keiju Kobayashi, his old friend Etsuko Ichihara, and Atsumi. The postwar experiences of three people who were tossed about by the war overlap. The screenplay by Satoru Hayasaka, the music by Kousuke Kanno, and above all, the performances of Atsumi and Ichihara make this a masterpiece in the his...
The Masterless 47
Character: Heitaro Teraoka
Part one of The Masterless 47....
Settlement of Love
Character: Takeuchi
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an anniversary wake. Some time following the ceremony one of the attendees marries the widow. Soon another friend of the deceased and his family also make the house their home when they move to town. Everyone's life is changed quite a bit. When the newer husband sustains an injury to his leg and loses his job it leads to the wife having to work. By the time...
Saotome-ka no musume-tachi
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1962 Japanese movie...
幻の殺意
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Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel....
のど自慢三羽烏
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Take the 'A' Train, Someday
Character: 平松
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The Rainbow Man
Character: Ryôsuke Akashi
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound....
Wakarete ikiru toki mo
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A Hiromichi Horikawa movie...
One Summer's Day
Character: Kenshiro Ooi
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relationship between a young lad and an eccentric old man. Fifth-grader Yuta (Takuro Atsugi) is a typical city child looking forward to a summer of reading comic books and playing video games. Instead, he is bundled off to his grandparent's house on the Inland Sea. His grandfather, Yuta's parents explain, has been acting strangely as of late -- he eats th...
The Imperial Navy
Character: Isoroku Yamamoto
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....
A Wife's Heart
Character: Shinji
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan....
Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
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1962 Japanese movie...
Tasmania Story
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Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by the island's immense natural beauty, and he is conscience-bound to oppose his former employer's ecologically unsound practices. He is also estranged from his grown son, who still resides in Japan. When his son comes to Tasmania for a visit, he must face the challenge of renewing their relationship....
Husband and Wife
Character: Shigekichi Hayakawa
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife....
3 Gents in the Snow Country
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Shûe Matsubayashi movie...
Happiness of Us Alone
Character: Michio Katayama
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys....
Life's Simple Pleasures
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A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos, focusing on the daily life of Sanpei Mejiro, a salaryman for over twenty years who finds a little happiness in life in his poor but joyful home....
Little Peach
Character: Tayama
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair....
A Wanderer's Notebook
Character: Fujiyama
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first ...
The Golden Bat Shows Up
Character: Tokuhei Kyojima
A heartwarming depiction of the episode behind the birth of "Golden Bat," a picture story show that was overwhelmingly popular with children in 1935....
White Love
Character: Keisuke Uemura
Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language teacher Ken. Finally she found her father in Madrid and she also met Ken's ex-girl friend Taeko there. Ken came to Madrid and learned of their meeting. He wanted her to help to look for Taeko. Ken was caught in between the past and the present....
Here Is a Spring
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The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortly after the war....
Diary of a Nurse
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Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu....
The Militarists
Character: Premier Hideki Tojo
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Dimple of Tokyo
Character: Policeman
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 Wiser Age
Character: Jiro Ishikawa
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....
The First Kiss
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Portmanteau film about young lovers....
The Return of Godzilla
Character: Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura
After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the story to light are suppressed by the Japanese government amid growing political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, who are both willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster....
The Lost Alibi
Character: Teiichiro Ishino
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lover, he runs into a neighbor who is later accused of murder. Questioned by police about the neighbor, and blackmailed by his lover's neighbor, the salaryman's lies lead him on a path to destruction....
Mr. Pu
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A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl....
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....
Yawara!
Character: Jigoro inokuma
Yawara Inokuma is a girl who aspires to an ordinary life but due to her innate talent is forced to practice judo by her authoritarian grandfather, Jigorou Inokuma, with the aim of achieving the championship in Japan and the gold medal in the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. Because of the pressure from her grandfather she has a generally bad attitude about judo, avoiding it as much as she can. However, over time she comes to understand why her grandfather loves judo and appreciates it more....
The Gentlemen’s Alliance
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Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another....
こんにちは赤ちゃん
Character: Keisuke Yomoyama
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I Hear the Whistle
Character: Takashi Sugimoto
Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease....
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....
Mr. Lucky
Character: 若原俊平
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Acchan no bebi gyangu
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Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe....
Tsuki yori no haha
Character: Kenji
Japanese drama film....
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
Character: Self
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958)....
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
Character: Self
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962)....
3 Dolls and Baby Gang
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Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe....
Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
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A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an estranged son in Japan....
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
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Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi....
Beast Alley
Character: Detective Hisatsune
"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto....
Pressure of Guilt
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Born in Sin
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A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery....
L・O・V・I・N・G
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Murder case....
Price of Beauty
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Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity"....
Tokyo Sweetheart
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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....
Challenge for Glory
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A young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his best friend, another boxer whom he accidentally injured in a match. When the latter is found dead, he cannot believe it is suicide and decides to investigate. Sure enough, a group of gangsters is behind his death and, resenting his intrusion, try to ruin him and to pin the murder of his young friend's fiancee on him. At the last minute he shoots it out with the villains and emerges with his reputation ...
Okinawan Boys
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The Naked General
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A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities....
Adolescence Part II
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A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education....
Young Challengers
Character: Junpei Namikawa
A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of Japan's leading manufacturers of electronic and electric goods....
The Daphne
Character: Ooka (Umeko's husband)
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her brother try various schemes to find husbands for them....
Night School
Character: Night time teacher
Senta lives with his mother and little brother and supports them by working at day at a factory and attending eighth grade in the evening. One day he finds a letter on his desk, left by Ryohei, a day school student who has lost his pencil case and asks his night-school counterpart to return it…...
Clothes of Deception
Character: Kōji
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board....
The Masterless 47 – Part II
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The Tiger of Malaya
Character: Hassan
A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya....
Mother Country
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In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign cou...
A Taxing Woman
Character: Ryoko's Boss
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits....
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
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Tora-san, the Intellectual
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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....
The Eagle of the Pacific
Character: Staff Officer (uncredited)
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability....
My Wonderful Yellow Car
Character: Drunken man A
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Their Father's Wife
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Red-Light Bases
Character: School Teacher Uenishi
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution....
Youth of Heiji Senigata
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Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells
Character: Narrator
August 1945. In a converted theological seminary on the outskirts of Nagasaki, a young doctor works to help his patients, as unsettling news comes of a new weapon used by the Americans on the city of Hiroshima. When the second nuclear weapon is dropped on Nagasaki, the hospital staff must work to save lives in the midst of the concentric circles of death that their city has become....
The President Talks Bank
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The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements....
The President's Boss
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A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter....
Assistant President
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Hail the 3 Gents
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Girls in the Orchard
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Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking care of the land)-- and the modernity and lure of a life in the city....
Resurrection
Character: Kunihiko Murai
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Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
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In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful....
Three Generations of Company Presidents
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The third installment in the Shacho Series....
Five Gents' Trick Book
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The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series....
Could I But Live
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Could I But Live...
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....
The Third President
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The fifth entry in the Company President Series...
The Hopeful Family
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Japan's Longest Day
Character: Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anam...
Mado Kara Tobidase
Character: Yûji Tokuyama
The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an agricultural and livestock industry, and has his father Ritaro (Hiroshi Shiomi), younger brother Yuji (Keiju Kobayashi), wife Fujiko (Kiko Todoroki), and four children (three of whom are Obinata's sons). They lived in a large family of 8 people, including 2 children and 2 daughters. The Fujieda family next door is Chieko (Ayako Okamura), whose husban...
Horror of the Fifth Columnist
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Student Double Suicide
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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…...
Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
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Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke....
Music's Twenty Doors
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A love story about a dressing room attendant and a dancer who work at theater....
Taking a Success Course
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1961 Japanese movie...
Tidal Wave
Character: Dr. Tadokoro
Two hundred million years ago, Earth had a single continent. As the millennia progressed, the single continent slowly split off into smaller continents and islands. Thirty million years ago, the country of Japan was part of the continent of Asia, and has since split off into its own archipelago. Another landmass shift is about to occur......
Godzilla Resurrection
Character: Prime Minister Mitamura
This is a hybrid cut of both the original Japanese version The Return of Godzilla and Godzilla 1985, meant to combine the best aspects of both. This re-edit seeks to accomplish a happy medium between the two versions. The film will still be highly critical of both the United States and the Soviet Union, and will work to marginalize the more humorous aspects of the added Pentagon scenes. Their inclusion will fit better with the bureaucratic behind-the-scenes narrative of the original cut, and mos...
Zoku botchan shain
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1954 Japanese movie...
Elephant from "Zoo Story"
Character: Head of Animal Care Division, Higashi
The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of "Zoo Story" by author Fukuda Saburo. During the Tokyo air raids of World War II, Zen-san, an elephant keeper at Ueno Zoo, is faced with the heartbreaking task of euthanizing Tonki, a beloved elephant, due to food shortages and wartime pressures. Unable to carry out the order, Zen-san secretly feeds Tonki, but the elephant is ultimately shot by the military police. The film poignantly captures Ze...
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...
New Third-Class Executive
Character: Namiyoshi Yashiro
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: Namikichi Yashiro (Employee)
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: Namiyoshi Yashiro
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: Namikichi Yashiro
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: Kuwabara Takeshi
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: Takeshi Kuwabara
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: Susumu Kimura (Chief Secretary)
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: Nakamura Hiroshi (Chief Secretary)
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: Hiroshi Nakamura (Chief Secretary)
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: Takashi Ishikawa (Technical Manager)
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: Kojima Keigo (Chief of Secretary)
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: Keigo Kojima
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....
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
Character: Officer Furuyama
At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals. When a guest threatens to expose one maid's past, she must decide whether to run or face it—with help from a kind local officer....
Discover Japan with the 5 Gents
Character: Nobuyoshi Kimura (Development Director)
In this outing, Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70....
Five Gents Prefer Geisha
Character: Shingo Kimura
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....
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
Character: Kenichi Honjo (Takayama Trading 1st Sales Manager)
"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company....
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
Character: Kenichi Honjō
An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself....
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
Character: Takashi Saijō (PR and Planning Manager)
A cosmetics company president launches an aggressive new business strategy while balancing corporate pressure, romantic entanglements, and a high-profile international partnership....
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
Character: Saijō Takashi (PR manager)
A cosmetics executive promoted to chairman faces chaos at home and work as his company undergoes major changes and internal power shifts....
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
Character: Hisashi Tamba
A food company president is promoted to chairman, but his continued involvement creates leadership confusion....
Five Gents and a Kuniang
Character: Tanba Hisashi
A food company undergoes leadership changes, with younger staff rising to key roles....