Shinichi Himori
Shinichi Himori (10 January 1907 – 12 September 1959), born Kazuo Moriyama, was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1925 to 1959. Born in Tokyo, Himori entered the Shochiku studios in 1924 and, after starting out in side roles, became a leading player, particularly specializing in realistic films after the coming of sound.[1] With his starring role in Yasujirō Ozu's The Only Son as the best example, he was often featured in films by famous directors for his earnest acting that smelled of reality.[1] He became a by player after the war, but died of a heart attack in 1959. Shochiku honored him with a company funeral.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8947 |
| Birthday | 1907-01-10 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Shin'ichi Himori, Kazuo Moriyama, 守山一雄, |
1952
Ikiru
8.3/1335
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look...
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Ikiru
1948
Shachō to onna tenin
10/1
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Shachō to onna tenin
1930
At a Crossroads
0/0
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At a Crossroads
1953
Mole Alley
8/1
33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating f...
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Mole Alley
1957
Birth of Romance
0/0
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks singer Hibari...
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Birth of Romance
1932
Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
10/1
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Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
1939
Surging Waves
0/0
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Surging Waves
1954
Sunny house
0/0
On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the...
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Sunny house
1957
Utau yajikita kogane dōchū
0/0
1957 Japanese movie
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Utau yajikita kogane dōchū
1937
A Star Athlete
7.5/2
During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...
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A Star Athlete
1934
The Genealogy of Women
10/1
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The Romanc...
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The Genealogy of Women
1939
Five Siblings
8/1
A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors...
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Five Siblings
1939
Southern Wind
0/0
Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has an...
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Southern Wind
1942
Otoko no iki
0/0
This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a littl...
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Otoko no iki
1956
のんき侍大暴れ
0/0
In the mid-Tokugawa period, a conflict arose over the "Seiryū Himon," a secret document left by the former shogun Iesai, bequeathing the eighth shogun...
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のんき侍大暴れ
1958
One Step to Happiness
0/0
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One Step to Happiness
1954
Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
0/0
Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads him to a perceptive and cheerful girl named Onatsu...
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Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
1948
Tomorrow Will Be Fine Weather
0/0
Lost for 70 years until 2022, Shimizu’s second postwar film recalls Mr. Thank You as he frames the narrative in a familiar setting, tracking an autumn...
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Tomorrow Will Be Fine Weather
1935
Okoto and Sasuke
6.75/4
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Jun...
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Okoto and Sasuke
1953
New Tokyo March
9/1
Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose roman...
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New Tokyo March
1957
Dancing Mistress
8/1
Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls in love with the thief Sojiro, unaware that he is a...
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Dancing Mistress
1942
A Certain Woman
7/1
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who...
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A Certain Woman
1933
The Layabout and Seabathing
8/1
The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store o...
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The Layabout and Seabathing
1933
A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
10/1
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
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A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
1933
Sôbô
8/1
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
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Sôbô
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
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
1953
Always in My Heart Part 2
6.5/4
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
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Always in My Heart Part 2
1957
続二等兵物語 決戦体制の巻
0/0
Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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The Foster Mother
0/0
A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in Kyoto,...
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The Foster Mother
1958
Hobo Village
0/0
Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.
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Hobo Village
1929
Days of Youth
5.591/22
University friends Ben and Shūichi unknowingly vie for the attention of the beautiful Chieko while on a skiing trip.
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Days of Youth
1939
Four Seasons of Children
8.375/8
The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...
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Four Seasons of Children
1957
When It Rains, It Pours
6/1
Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fac...
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When It Rains, It Pours
1942
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
0/0
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The Spy Has Not Died Yet
1944
The Man Who Has Returned
10/1
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The Man Who Has Returned
1939
Warm Current
5.25/4
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
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
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
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
1931
The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
6.6/15
A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...
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The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
1947
The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
7/1
The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's c...
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The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
1949
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
6.2/5
Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...
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Mr. Shosuke Ohara
1947
The Ball at the Anjo House
6.947/19
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the f...
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The Ball at the Anjo House
1933
The Boss's Son at College
7.5/2
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufa...
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The Boss's Son at College
1942
There Was a Father
6.97/83
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
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There Was a Father
1941
Ornamental Hairpin
6.696/23
A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among the...
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Ornamental Hairpin
1936
The Only Son
7.405/111
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo...
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The Only Son
1934
Street Without End
6.636/11
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrig...
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Street Without End
1938
The Masseurs and a Woman
6.917/30
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
1933
Apart from You
7.043/23
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...
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Apart from You
1929
I Graduated, But...
5.76/25
Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the fact...
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I Graduated, But...
1956
Farewell to Dream
7.1/10
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmonger...
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Farewell to Dream
1952
Carmen's Innocent Love
5.25/14
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.
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Carmen's Innocent Love
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
Scandal
6.896/96
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
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Scandal
1954
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
6.571/7
A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1936
Family Meeting
0/0
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
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Family Meeting
1932
The Loyal 47 Ronin
0/0
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their f...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
1928
Physical Beauty
10/1
A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge b...
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Physical Beauty
1932
Passion
10/1
Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.
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Passion
1951
Under the Blossoming Peach
0/0
A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief hap...
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Under the Blossoming Peach
1937
Goodbye to the Front
0/0
A 1937 Japanese film.
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Goodbye to the Front
1931
Silver Stream
7/1
Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is no...
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Silver Stream
1949
Odoru ryûgûjô
0/0
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Odoru ryûgûjô
1954
Dancing Girls of Izu
9/1
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An a...
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Dancing Girls of Izu
1949
娘十八嘘つき時代
0/0
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娘十八嘘つき時代
1950
Homecoming
8/1
A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his da...
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Homecoming
1946
Waiting Woman
0/0
Waiting woman
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Waiting Woman
1939
Weeds with flowers
0/0
Weed with Flowers
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Weeds with flowers
1942
Dance of the Capital
0/0
Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film
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Dance of the Capital
1950
Peko-chan and Densuke
0/0
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Peko-chan and Densuke
1941
Dawn Chorus
0/0
A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.
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Dawn Chorus
1940
Namida no Sekinin
0/0
Based on Japanese author Toshitaro Takeda's novel of the same name, the film centers around Takako, who unveils a past relationship between her husban...
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Namida no Sekinin
1953
悲しき瞳
0/0
Shinjiro Tanabe, a teacher at a junior high school in the downtown area of Tokyo, has two daughters, Mitsuko and Hitomi. Hitomi is the leader of her...
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悲しき瞳
1954
Monster with Twenty Faces
9/1
Edogawa Rampo's famous detective, part 1
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Monster with Twenty Faces
1925
Brave Love
0/0
Japanese film from 1925.
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Brave Love
1926
Oh! Carefree, Aren't You?
0/0
Short Japanese silent comedy from 1926. Directed by "Kamata Nonkinosuke," a probable pseudonym for a junior director (literally "Carefree Man from Kam...
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Oh! Carefree, Aren't You?
1926
Young Master
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.
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Young Master
1928
Symphony of Youth
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1928.
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Symphony of Youth
1930
Song of Youth
0/0
Shirō Kuroki, the adopted son of the Yamada family, shares a deep and mutual love with his foster sister, Kinuko Yamada. His commitment to political a...
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Song of Youth
1950
Onna no ryūkō
9/1
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Onna no ryūkō
1930
Youth, Why Do You Cry?
0/0
A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.
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Youth, Why Do You Cry?
1931
Cry Cheerfully!
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1931.
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Cry Cheerfully!
1931
Sisters: Part 1
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1931.
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Sisters: Part 1
1931
Sisters: Part 2
7/1
Japanese silent film from 1931.
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Sisters: Part 2
1932
The Golden Demon
0/0
Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son. Heartbroken, Kan’ichi...
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The Golden Demon
1932
The Sun Rises from the East
7/1
The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directed.
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The Sun Rises from the East
1933
The Cheerleading Captain's Love
8/1
Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he meets at the home of Miyajima.
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The Cheerleading Captain's Love
1934
Mother of the East
7/1
Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.
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Mother of the East
1953
学生社長
0/0
The story centers on three students from Jiyu University who set up a part-time limited partnership, with Jotaro Yamaji (Koji Tsuruta) becoming its pr...
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学生社長
1941
女の宿
0/0
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女の宿
1957
The Orchestra Sisters
0/0
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The Orchestra Sisters
1956
The Three Musketeers Reunite
0/0
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The Three Musketeers Reunite
1958
Love in the Deep
0/0
Bank robbers hide their loot in an underwater cave in a small fishing village, but the Ama (female divers) of the village suspect something and dive t...
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