Norihei Miki
Birthday: Born in 1924-04-11 in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Deathday: 1999-01-25
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イキのいい奴
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Set in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a stubborn, old-fashioned master and his hot-tempered, brash apprentice growing up among the warm-hearted people of downtown Tokyo....
走らんか！
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Set in Hakata, the series is about a young man who wants to play rock music even though his father expects him to follow him in making Hakata ningyou (a traditional Japanese clay doll). One of the few Asadora starring a male character....
日本巌窟王
Character: Gentatsu
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琉球の風 DRAGON SPIRIT
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The series tells The story of the 1609 invasion of Ryûkyû by forces from the Japanese domain of Satsuma, an event which changed the course of Ryukyuan history dramatically....
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A Good Man, A Good Day
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The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation....
Nigetekita hanayome
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Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
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1962 Japanese movie...
Enomoto's Heaven and Hell
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Keita, after his death, was taken to the court of heaven as Defendant No. 1361, where his past was projected. He was formerly a favorite of the Meriken Circus troupe, yet he sinned by exposing a certain woman. During the screening, he realizes what he has done, and fate gives him a chance to redeem his sins....
Pom Poko
Character: Seizaemon (voice)
The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide to band together and fight back. The Raccoons practice and perfect the ancient art of transformation until they are even able to appear as humans in hilarious circumstances....
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
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1962 Japanese movie...
Shimizu Port Salaryman
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Hail the 3 Gents
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Travels of Lord Mito
Character: Heibei Noriya
In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals, Sukesaburo and Kakunosuke, under the name of Koemon, a retired peasant....
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 Dangoro Party in the Sky
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The film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great success at the performances of the Toho Takarazuka Theater at the end of the year. The troupe "Kumo no Ue Dangoro" continues to tour from town to village. The small cast of the troupe includes its leader (Kenichi Enomoto), Norizo (Norihei Miki) and Taizo (Mutoshi Happa), who play female roles - they are all super actors, each of whom plays five roles. Dan Goro dreams of performing in a major theater and tr...
A Doting Parent’s Lullaby
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Zatoichi's Revenge
Character: Denroku the Weasel
Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters...
Fire Festival
Character: Yamakawa
Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways....
Birth of Romance
Character: Chauffeur
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks singer Hibari Misora to perform. Musical youth comedy with young actors, passion, funny songs and laughter. Hibari Misora appears as herself....
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Character: Katsuyan
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban....
Ôban
Character: Katsu Yan
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....
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Character: Katsu yan
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban....
Yaji and Kita on the Road
Character: Tarashirô Hanamizu
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)...
Sada
Character: Takuzo Abe
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis....
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
Character: Heppei Hiradaira
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....
Lullaby to Kill
Character: Jûbei Noro - Genjirô's Colleague
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is....
Buddies
Character: Stranger Man
Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love....
Wandering -SASURAI-
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A high school girl becomes convinced that her mother, who was said to have died fourteen years ago, is alive and residing in Hokkaido....
Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
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Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
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1958 Japanese movie...
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
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1963 Japanese movie...
Sararīman yajikita dōchū
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1961 Japanese movie...
Zoku sararīman yajikita dōchū
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1961 Japanese movie...
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
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Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn....
Assistant President
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
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The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown....
The Scent of Incense
Character: Hachirô
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble....
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....
Shin kitsune to tanuki
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1962 Japanese movie...
Scrap Collectors
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Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka....
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Character: Tomokawa
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat....
Japan Beauty Story: A Woman Among Women
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Tenshi ga ore o oi kakeru
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A comedy-action film depicting a kind-hearted protagonist who, feeling disillusioned with the world, asks a hitman for assistance with suicide, only to find himself embroiled in a thrilling and hilarious journey involving money and women....
Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
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1962 Japanese movie...
Suspicion
Character: Tamotsu Kinoshita
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is ...
Why Not?
Character: Masuya
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society....
3 Gents in the Snow Country
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Shûe Matsubayashi movie...
Hachiko
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The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death....
Zegen
Character: Asanaga
At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level military adventurer, Iheiji sets up chains of brothels throughout Asia. As Japan's power in the region grows, so does Iheiji's prosperity and patriotism....
Kigeki: Hanayome sensô
Character: Oikawa
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Black Rain
Character: Kotaro
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors....
The Man from Shimizu
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On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a gambling den, where he bets the condolence money for his mother's funeral. No surprise to learn he loses the lot. Not the hard-boiled yakuza story it seems, this is a comedy featuring many new artists who were making a name for themselves at the time....
ドリフターズですよ！特訓特訓また特訓
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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....
The Ghostly Trip
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The 10th film in the travel series. The original work and screenplay is by Kazuo Funahashi, the director is Shoji Segawa, and the cinematography is by Keiji Maruyama....
A Legend of Turmoil
Character: Toshio Kasabe
A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza family. When his boss gets shot, he decides to go after the plotters....
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
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Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money....
Boss Takes to the Road
Character: Pierre Miki
Japanese comedy film....
Queen Bee
Character: Arashi
To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all....
Tokyo Blackout
Character: Matsukichi Kimura
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the world. The temperature inside the cloud is slowly increasing. The Soviet Pacific fleet is getting closer. The U.S. is forcing Japan to form a new government. Scientists and research workers outside Tokyo have to race against time to find out how to get through the cloud in order to rescue the 12,000,0...
Nonsense Boys
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Japanese comedy film....
Like a Savage
Character: Isao Yoshimoto (Chairman of the Kanto Nishiki Federation)
Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble....
The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
Character: Sun Wu Kung
The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original legends, this film substitutes the spindly comic actor Norihei Miki, sans makeup....
Snow in the South Seas
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Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions....
The Inugami Family
Character: Kashiwaya Innkeeper
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood....
A Country Boss
Character: Man at the nightclub
A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage....
Demon Pond
Character: Catfish Messenger
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants, including lovers Akira and Yuri, in their hands....
Island of Hell
Character: Barber Seijuro
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946....
Tenten Musume
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Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts....
Masura o hashutsu fukai
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Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series....
Kachô Shima Kôsaku
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Based on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane...
I Sell My Husband
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Japanese comedy film....
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
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Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns....
Blue Jeans Memory
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A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The three decide to help her....
The Maid Story
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Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times....
Everybody, Let's Go!
Character: Eizo Shirasaka
A new stationmaster is appointed to a dilapidated local line. On top of the failing local line feuding for hot spring customers with a bus company looking to start a new route, they even get involved in a disappearance and a murder......
The Naked General
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A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities....
Our Miyo-chan
Character: Thief
Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl....
Madcap Mixup
Character: Matsugoro
Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups....
The Daphne
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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: Train passenger (uncredited)
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…...
A Comedy in Front of the Station: University
Character: Mitsui Sanpei
#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai)....
Chûshingura
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After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor....
Nippon no obaachan
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Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem ...
This Year's Love
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Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight. Although she gave the cold shoulder to Tadashi, she gradually became fond of Tadashi....
Oración
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Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given the name Oracion or "prayer". When Oracion is grown, a factory owner buys the horse. Will he be the key to solving the man's problems? Based on the novel by Teru Miyamoto....
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
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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....
Magnitude 7.9
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A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored....
Sazae-san Sequel
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An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip....
Teenage Sazae
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Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color....
Make-Up
Character: Owner of Kahmila
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High School Jingi Gaiden: Chi o haumono
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Machi no Hi
Character: Kurisaburo
Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex brokerage. Choromatsu is partnered with Umekichi, whom he calls "big brother," in this business. They live on the second floor of the aka-chochin (red lantern) owned by Takeko, where boys and girls who were abandoned at the abandoned children's temple on Mukojima also live together, making up a family of people who are not related to each other....
The Three Magicians
Character: Sarutobi Sasuke
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Diary of the First Incredible Laughing Trip
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Pleasant Company
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Jolly Barbers
Character: Lee
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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....
Love of Saturday
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Nemoto Ritsuko is the girlfriend of Kuroki Tamotsu. Both are 22 years old. Ritsuko lives with her father, Shingo, a piano tuner and city hall clerk. Meanwhile, Tamotsu is a small club's pianist in Yokohama. Ritsuko, close to the age of marriage, is worried and forms a concrete plan. Ritsuko's sister, Kinue, arranges for her to meet her husbands colleague Abe Goro. Tamotsu and Ritsuko wind up quarreling on their date the following day where Tamotsu eventually promises to meet her father. However,...
The Third President
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The fifth entry in the Company President Series...
Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
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Sixth entry in the Company President Series....
Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents
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7th film in the President series and the first entry in color....
Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
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Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"...
Pachinko
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Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
Character: Fukuji Tohyama
Ensemble comedy....
300 Million Yen Mission
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Comedy actors: Cooper and Gable
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This film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue, which tells the story of a comedian who teams up with a strange man he meets while traveling, and the two become very popular in Asakusa while performing their unusual acts....
喜劇 各駅停車
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Strawberry Road
Character: Old man on hill
Hisa Ishii and his brother Akira emigrate from Japan to the United States. They settle in rural California and start a strawberry farm, slowly integrating themselves into the life of the community, which includes Japanese-Americans of both lengthy and brief residence....
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Pier
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The 24th and final entry in the Ekimae series, set at Takamatsu Station in Kagawa Prefecture, formerly known for its ferry service to the Seto Inland Sea....
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...
Playboy President
Character: Branch Manager Doi
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: Branch Manager Doi
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: Hisakazu Tago (Kyushu Branch Manager)
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: Chinda Bunjiro (Sales Manager)
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: Bunjiro Chinda (Sales Manager)
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: Benjirō Mamada (General Affairs 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: Sasaki Matakichi (Sales Manager)
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: Matayoshi Sasa
As his fashion company rides a wave of post-recession success, President Kurihara seeks to expand into women’s apparel through a deepening partnership with a French firm....
Discover Japan with the 5 Gents
Character: Benzō Tobita (Osaka Hotel Manager)
In this outing, Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70....
Five Gents Prefer Geisha
Character: Benzō Tobita (Sales Director)
In this continuation of Discover Japan with the 5 Gents (Shacho sen ichiya, 1967), Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70....
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Benten
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The 14th film in the Ekimae series, set in Nagano Prefecture, focusing on the love lives of a group of husbands and their wives....
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Manga
Character: Sanpei Matsuki
15th entry in the Ekimae series, surrounding the then-insanely popular Weekly Shounen Sunday series Osomatsu-kun and Obake no Q-Taro....
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Landlady
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Seventh in the Ekimae series, detailing the exploits of the landladies around Ryogoku Station in Tokyo, and their sumo clientele....
Fox and Raccoon
Character: Okajima (Pickpocket)
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and dream of a better future....
The Ballad of Narayama
Character: Shioya
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife....