
Mieko Takamine
Mieko Takamine (高峰三枝子, Takamine Mieko) (2 December 1918 – 27 May 1990) was a Japanese actress and singer.
Mieko Takamine was born the eldest daughter of famous chikuzen biwa player and teacher Chikufu Takamine. She gave her acting debut in the 1936 film Kimi yo takarakani utae, produced by the Shochiku studios, to which she would remain affiliated throughout her career, although she would also occasionally appear in productions of other companies after the war. Her first released record as a singer was the theme song for the film Hotaru no hikari (1938), and she soon established herself as a "singing movie star".
Takamine starred in films of Japan's most notable directors, including Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse and Keisuke Kinoshita.
In 1976, Takamine won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 19th Blue Ribbon Awards for her role in The Inugamis (1976). In 1985, she was awarded the Medal of Purple Ribbon and a special Mainichi Film Award for her longtime achievements as a performer
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.949 |
Birthday | 1918-12-02 |
Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
Also Known As | Takamine Mieko, Миэко Такаминэ, |

1951

Five Men of Edo
5/1
During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at eve...
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Five Men of Edo

1961

A Good Man, A Good Day
0/0
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to ma...
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A Good Man, A Good Day

1953

Omatsuri hanjiro
0/0
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather t...
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Omatsuri hanjiro

1962

Yume de aritai
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Yume de aritai

1962

Red Bud and White Flower
0/0
A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.
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Red Bud and White Flower

1956

A Samurai's Honor at Pawn
0/0
A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves.
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A Samurai's Honor at Pawn

1957

The Wanderer
0/0
After killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and the landowner Tamegoro, plans to steal the proceeds fro...
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The Wanderer

1952

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
0/0
Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

1948

The Beauty of the Evening Sky
0/0
A platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he was a boy for the rest of his life.
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The Beauty of the Evening Sky

1945

Gekimetsu no uta
0/0
Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again...
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Gekimetsu no uta

1964

Homecoming
0/0
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, du...
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Homecoming

1962

Kono ni uruwashi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kono ni uruwashi

1950

When We Came Back
0/0
Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
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When We Came Back

1941

The 47 Ronin
7/65
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lor...
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The 47 Ronin

1938

Hotaru no hikari
0/0
Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who wil...
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Hotaru no hikari

1954

一本刀土俵入
0/0
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一本刀土俵入

1990

Flower Season
0/0
Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of the...
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Flower Season

1940

Nobuko
6.2/4
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
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Nobuko

1976

The Inugami Family
6.9/33
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pittin...
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The Inugami Family

1969

Futari no Koibito
0/0
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Futari no Koibito

1941

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
6.9/29
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

1973

Rebellion Reward
0/0
The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a photographer who uses his camera as a blackmail weapon...
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Rebellion Reward

1967

Pomegranate Time
0/0
Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
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Pomegranate Time

1945

Theater
0/0
Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.
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Theater

1957

Utau yajikita kogane dōchū
0/0
1957 Japanese movie
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Utau yajikita kogane dōchū

1953

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
0/0
Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

1954

The Garden of Women
6.6/9
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
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The Garden of Women

1941

The Flower is not False
4.5/1
Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu Hirosh...
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The Flower is not False

1942

South Wind
0/0
Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm Curr...
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South Wind

1942

Moon of the Plateau
0/0
An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....
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Moon of the Plateau

1937

The Trio's Engagements
7/1
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
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The Trio's Engagements

1962

Love Under the Crucifix
6.9/8
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a...
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Love Under the Crucifix

1962

San'nin musume kanpai!
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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San'nin musume kanpai!

1957

Elegy of the North
6/8
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.
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Elegy of the North

1961

Love's Family Tree
0/0
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Love's Family Tree

1952

治郎吉格子
0/0
Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked like a merchant retrieved the wallet for...
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治郎吉格子

1955

Ejima and Ikushima
0/0
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku...
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Ejima and Ikushima

1947

Rira no hana wasureji
0/0
In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities. Howe...
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Rira no hana wasureji

1947

Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
0/0
A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.
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Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu

1960

Castle of Flames
7.2/4
In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon finds...
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Castle of Flames

1951

Dancing Girl
6.3/10
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the famil...
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Dancing Girl

1967

Aruhi watashi wa
0/0
The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between pa...
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Aruhi watashi wa

1954

旗本退屈男 謎の怪人屋敷
0/0
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旗本退屈男 謎の怪人屋敷

1937

The Lights of Asakusa
5.6/5
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pr...
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The Lights of Asakusa

1953

憧れの星座
0/0
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憧れの星座

1962

At the Side of the Bridge 2
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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At the Side of the Bridge 2

1952

Kare o korosu na
0/0
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Kare o korosu na

1947

Once More
6.2/4
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor. Over...
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Once More

1950

Escape from Prison
0/0
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Escape from Prison

1938

So Goes My Love
7/1
Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns...
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So Goes My Love

1951

Freedom School
0/0
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house. Co...
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Freedom School

1962

Naite waratta hanayome
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Naite waratta hanayome

1953

Wife
7/9
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and th...
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Wife

1945

Ikeru isu
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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Ikeru isu

1978

Queen Bee
7.3/6
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 ba...
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Queen Bee

1980

An Ocean to Cross
0/0
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The fil...
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An Ocean to Cross

1945

新風
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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新風

1942

South Wind 2
0/0
In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who propose...
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South Wind 2

1951

Minami kaze
0/0
1951 Japanese movie
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Minami kaze

1968

The Sands of Kurobe
6.2/5
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of t...
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The Sands of Kurobe

1953

Dreaming People
0/0
Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is marryin...
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Dreaming People

1978

The Phoenix
5.6/8
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai...
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The Phoenix

1988

Memories of You
0/0
University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has le...
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Memories of You

1984

Appassionata
5/1
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awa...
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Appassionata

1980

The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
0/0
Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.
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The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail

1964

Here Because of You
5.5/6
An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing...
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Here Because of You

1958

Points and Lines
6/3
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the trut...
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Points and Lines

1957

Street of Ronin
6.2/4
Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period. Star...
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Street of Ronin

1963

Bright Sea
0/0
On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university ye...
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Bright Sea

1938

The Masseurs and a Woman
6.7/25
A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniat...
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The Masseurs and a Woman

1945

Victory Song
5.2/4
Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
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Victory Song

1937

The Golden Demon
6/5
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becom...
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The Golden Demon

1937

Renai muteki kantai
0/0
A 1937 Japanese film.
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Renai muteki kantai

1937

Vermilion and Green
5.3/3
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
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Vermilion and Green

1965

Song of Farewell
0/0
After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part wa...
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Song of Farewell

1989

Four Days of Snow and Blood
6.9/7
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading pol...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood

1955

Fantasy of Youth
0/0
Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.
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Fantasy of Youth

1937

Moon Over the Ruins
5/2
Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.
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Moon Over the Ruins

1956

Eyes of Children
0/0
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds o...
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Eyes of Children

1958

Man of Thirteen Eyes
0/0
Japanese mystery film.
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Man of Thirteen Eyes

1963

The Image of Mother
0/0
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.
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The Image of Mother

1959

Tokyo Omnibus
0/0
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with...
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Tokyo Omnibus

1967

Let Us Love
0/0
Melodrama based on a hit song of the same title.
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Let Us Love

1954

Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
0/0
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman
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Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot

1961

Marriageable Age
0/0
Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...
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Marriageable Age

1939

Lovers' Duet
5/1
Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut
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Lovers' Duet

1967

Lover's Duet
0/0
A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.
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Lover's Duet

1977

Aspiration
0/0
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Aspiration

1957

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
0/0
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2

1939

Warm Current
4/3
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter...
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Warm Current

1957

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
0/0
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1

1943

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
0/0
Japanese war movie.
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Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

1950

Omoide no borero
0/0
Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
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Omoide no borero

1950

Rumba of Passion
0/0
Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
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Rumba of Passion

1951

Who Knows a Woman's Heart
0/0
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart

1963

The Incorrigible
6.3/3
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
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The Incorrigible

1951

Elegy
0/0
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his discipl...
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Elegy

1941

Let's Go in Good Spirits
0/0
In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means “waiter” literally....
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Let's Go in Good Spirits

1946

Waiting Woman
0/0
Waiting woman
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Waiting Woman

1951

Ah Youth
0/0
Aa seishun 1951
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Ah Youth

1942

Dance of the Capital
0/0
Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film
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Dance of the Capital

1979

The Shogun Assassins
5/6
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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