Ken Uehara
Ken Uehara (上原謙, Uehara Ken, 7 November 1909 – 23 November 1991) was a Japanese actor who appeared in approximately 200 films between 1935 and 1990.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.3145 |
| Birthday | 1909-10-07 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Ikebata Kiyosuke, Kiyosuke Ikebata, |
1958
Musume no boken
0/0
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Musume no boken
1963
Atragon
6.586/58
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World W...
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Atragon
1943
Kaisen no Zenya
0/0
Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan
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Kaisen no Zenya
1958
The Precipice
9/1
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the...
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The Precipice
1954
Late Chrysanthemums
7.297/37
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days c...
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Late Chrysanthemums
1962
Long Way to Okinawa
9/1
1962 Japanese movie
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Long Way to Okinawa
1951
The Man Without a Nationality
10/1
Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa
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The Man Without a Nationality
1951
Wedding March
10/1
Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa
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Wedding March
1952
Farewell to Spring
0/0
Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura
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Farewell to Spring
1953
White Fish
7/1
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon th...
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White Fish
1983
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
6.77/37
Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has th...
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
1950
When We Came Back
0/0
Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
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When We Came Back
1950
Portrait of Madame Yuki
6.696/28
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.
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Portrait of Madame Yuki
1951
Repast
7.552/48
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
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Repast
1954
Sound of the Mountain
7.356/66
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
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Sound of the Mountain
1961
Mothra
7.144/181
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population al...
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Mothra
1956
The President Talks Bank
0/0
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
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The President Talks Bank
1953
A Japanese Tragedy
5.781/16
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with...
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A Japanese Tragedy
1950
The Munekata Sisters
7.097/36
Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose wh...
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The Munekata Sisters
1939
Zoku aizen katsura
8/1
1939 Japanese movie
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Zoku aizen katsura
1990
Flower Season
10/1
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
1936
Mr. Thank You
7.058/43
In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.
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Mr. Thank You
1937
What Did the Lady Forget?
6.338/34
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...
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What Did the Lady Forget?
1960
The Storm of the Pacific
6/9
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 1...
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The Storm of the Pacific
1962
Whirlpool of Love
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Whirlpool of Love
1962
Pig and Goldfish
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Pig and Goldfish
1936
Housewife Camellia
7/1
The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to loo...
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Housewife Camellia
1941
Flower
0/0
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes mar...
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Flower
1942
Sumida River
0/0
Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big st...
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Sumida River
1953
Made in Japan
0/0
A love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo player against the backdrop of Japan in the early post...
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Made in Japan
1953
Husband and Wife
6.889/9
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.
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Husband and Wife
1951
The Singing Baseball Kid
0/0
A musical comedy about a spirited orphan who forms a youth baseball team and gets caught up in a mix of sports, singing, and crime when he tries to re...
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The Singing Baseball Kid
1956
The President's Boss
8/1
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.
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The President's Boss
1937
The Lights of Asakusa
6/6
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
1956
A Rainbow at Every Turn
0/0
Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they ha...
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A Rainbow at Every Turn
1936
The New Road: Akemi
8.5/2
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told...
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The New Road: Akemi
1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen
6.607/14
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
1939
A Brother and His Younger Sister
6/7
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting t...
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A Brother and His Younger Sister
1943
Port of Flowers
7.038/12
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backf...
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Port of Flowers
1939
Women at War
0/0
Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to ma...
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Women at War
1939
Okayo's Preparedness
7/1
A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.
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Okayo's Preparedness
1948
The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
0/0
Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka's house. Hidaka, who is a poor musician suffers fr...
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The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
6.6/15
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely d...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1953
Wife
7.182/11
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
1961
The Last War
6.583/12
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
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The Last War
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
6.571/14
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1943
The Living Magoroku
6.8/10
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.
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The Living Magoroku
1944
You Are the Next Eagle
0/0
A boy aviator endures rigorous training and a sad fate, and grows into a strong man with his eyes set on becoming an eagle.
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You Are the Next Eagle
1962
Gorath
6.462/26
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is en...
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Gorath
1948
Golden Devil
0/0
1948 adaptation of Golden Devil
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Golden Devil
1948
Golden Devil Part 2
0/0
1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2
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Golden Devil Part 2
1965
Campus A Go-Go
8/5
Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster.
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Campus A Go-Go
1957
Demon King of Yoja Manor
10/1
During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles’ star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita collapses on stage at Cabaret Copacana. Goro Hayator...
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Demon King of Yoja Manor
1938
The Tree of Love
7/3
A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run a...
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The Tree of Love
1960
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
7.3/10
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-law...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1947
Marriage
7.667/3
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.
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Marriage
1941
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
7.4/5
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now...
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Notes of an Itinerant Performer
1945
Tengoku no hanayome
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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Tengoku no hanayome
1948
A Flower Blooms
10/1
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.
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A Flower Blooms
1956
Undercurrent
6.231/13
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
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Undercurrent
1947
Kokoro tsuki nogotoku
0/0
1947 Japanese movie
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Kokoro tsuki nogotoku
1954
Mother's First Love
8/1
A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.
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Mother's First Love
1952
Dimple of Tokyo
10/1
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" (t...
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Dimple of Tokyo
1938
Family Diary
5.7/3
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ famili...
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Family Diary
1948
365 Nights
8.5/2
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and d...
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365 Nights
1955
The First Kiss
6.4/5
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
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The First Kiss
1958
Bright Young Maidens
10/1
In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a su...
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Bright Young Maidens
1956
Love on Rainbow Island
8/1
Japanese counterpart to Romeo and Juliet
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Love on Rainbow Island
1955
Nonki saiban
0/0
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty,...
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Nonki saiban
1951
Nightshade Flower
8/1
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.
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Nightshade Flower
1944
Jubilation Street
6.125/8
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.
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Jubilation Street
1945
Victory Song
6/5
An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.
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Victory Song
1942
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
0/0
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The Spy Has Not Died Yet
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
1952
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
0/0
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Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1961
A Night in Hong Kong
10/1
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who me...
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A Night in Hong Kong
1955
Fantasy of Youth
0/0
Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.
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Fantasy of Youth
1935
Him, Her, and the Boys
0/0
A Japanese film
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Him, Her, and the Boys
1936
Men vs. Women
7/1
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
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Men vs. Women
1951
Tsuki yori no haha
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Tsuki yori no haha
1961
Sir Galahad in Campus
7/2
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.
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Sir Galahad in Campus
1962
Pride of the Campus
8.333/3
Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing t...
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Pride of the Campus
1957
Untamed Woman
7.455/11
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for...
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Untamed Woman
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
1944
Army
6.75/16
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.
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Army
1961
Nocturne of a Woman
7/1
A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a ni...
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Nocturne of a Woman
1959
Someday I'll Know
9/1
A modern love story involving different affairs.
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Someday I'll Know
1952
A Ripple in a Morning
7/2
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
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A Ripple in a Morning
1962
College Champ
7.5/2
Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his h...
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College Champ
1957
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
9/1
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
1962
Chûshingura
7.152/46
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their hon...
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Chûshingura
1961
Blood on the Sea
0/0
Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.
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Blood on the Sea
1958
All About Marriage
10/1
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
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All About Marriage
1987
Actress
7.667/3
Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.
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Actress
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
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
1962
Operation Sewer Rats
7/1
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity.
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Operation Sewer Rats
1945
Soyokaze
7/1
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Soyokaze
1955
A Woman's Life
0/0
The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan.
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A Woman's Life
1956
Sound in the Mist
9/1
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Ka...
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Sound in the Mist
1943
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
0/0
Japanese war movie.
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Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
1949
Ningen moyo
7/1
A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.
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Ningen moyo
1936
The New Road: Ryota
7.5/2
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the per...
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The New Road: Ryota
1963
Crazy Operation: Drop Dead! Irresponsibility
10/1
Seven employees rise up in rebellion against an irresponsible company.
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Crazy Operation: Drop Dead! Irresponsibility
1966
Young Girls Are Everywhere
8/1
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Young Girls Are Everywhere
1951
Elegy
9/1
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
1963
Young Guy in Hawaii
6.5/2
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in Hawaii.
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Young Guy in Hawaii
1939
Weeds with flowers
0/0
Weed with Flowers
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Weeds with flowers
1949
Kekkon Sanjûshi
0/0
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Kekkon Sanjûshi
1957
Chikaiteshi
0/0
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Chikaiteshi
1950
Shojohou
0/0
A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that has...
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Shojohou
1963
Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong
7/1
The third and final chapter of MP & GI's Toho Trilogy expands the geographical reach of the franchise, taking stars Lucilla You Min and Takarada Akira...
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Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong
1950
A Female Doctor's Examination Room
0/0
A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more surprised to discover that he has a wife and child. W...
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A Female Doctor's Examination Room
1954
12 Chapters About Women
7/1
Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result of...
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12 Chapters About Women
1959
The Terrible Game
7/1
Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with the daughter of a wealthy trading company president...
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The Terrible Game
1958
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
0/0
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...
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Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
1956
The Mandarin Room
8/1
After running away from her mother, Ashiko works as a maid at an inn and changes her name, but she finds herself torn between her past and a new relat...
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The Mandarin Room
1960
University Bandits
9/1
A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...
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University Bandits
1959
Vagabond Employee: Revenge
0/0
Caught in a corporate power struggle, a man uses betrayal and strategy to expose corruption and settle personal scores—only to find true support where...
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Vagabond Employee: Revenge
1959
Vagabond Employee: Outcry
0/0
When a corrupt executive takes over his struggling company and violates his girlfriend, a young salaryman declares war, leaving his job to expose the...
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Vagabond Employee: Outcry
1982
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
2/1
The night in Ginza was shimmering with neon lights. A grand celebration was being held for the seventh anniversary of the club "Ayako." Among the cele...
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Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
1958
Holiday in Tokyo
9/1
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes o...
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Holiday in Tokyo
1944
Yasen gungakutai
7/1
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Yasen gungakutai
1959
Young Lovers
0/0
Engineer Shuichi defies his wealthy family to live with bar hostess Kazuyo, whose loyalty to her struggling family complicates their love. As class, p...
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Young Lovers
1956
Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
0/0
1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie
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Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
1947
踊子物語
0/0
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踊子物語
1958
The College Hero
8/1
Romantic melodrama about the loves and adventures of Kageyama (Takarada) and his fellow oarsmen at Meikyo University.
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The College Hero
1966
Night in Bangkok
9/1
Shuichi, a young doctor working at a hospital in Bangkok, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy Chinese trader.
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Night in Bangkok
1952
Oka wa hanazakari
9/1
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Oka wa hanazakari
1960
Three Dolls and Three Guys
7/1
Punch, Pinch, and Sench become involved in a murder mystery centering on a Chinese billionaire (Mihashi), actually a Japanese yakuza, who claims to be...
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Three Dolls and Three Guys
1959
Three Dolls in Ginza
0/0
A film by Toshio Sugie
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Three Dolls in Ginza
1960
Anything Goes Three Dolls' Way
9/1
Punch, Pinch, and Sentchi are three young women in Tokyo whose work and relationships become entangled after a minor accident draws their boyfriends i...
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Anything Goes Three Dolls' Way
1956
The Lady Was Pawn
0/0
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The Lady Was Pawn
1949
Hills of a Foreign Country
0/0
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