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Natsuko Kahara

Born : 3rd-Jan-1921

Movie Credits

Tasogare ni hyōteki o ute


Released : 5th-Jan-1982

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Till Tomorow Comes

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 10th-Feb-1962

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Bridge of Japan

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.
Released : 1st-Oct-1956

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Flowing

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
Released : 20th-Nov-1956

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Futari no Koibito


Released : 12th-Apr-1969

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Morning for the Osone Family

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.
Released : 21st-Feb-1946

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Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 5th-Aug-1962

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Yukiko


Released : 3rd-Aug-1955

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Fiddler on the Roof

Special 50th anniversary recording of the Tokyo Imperial Theater production of the Fiddler on the Roof. Set in the little village of Anatevka, the story centers on Tevye, a poor milkman, and his five daughters. With the help of a colorful and tight-knit Jewish community, Tevye tries to protect his daughters and instill them with traditional values in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia.
Released : 17th-Jan-1983

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Yume de aimasho

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 15th-Sep-1962

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The Spell of the Hidden Gold

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
Released : 21st-Oct-1958

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Lullaby of the Earth

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies.
Released : 12th-Jun-1976

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The Approach of Autumn

A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper.
Released : 1st-Oct-1960

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The Bad Sleep Well

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.
Released : 19th-Sep-1960

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Summer Clouds

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Released : 2nd-Sep-1958

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Little Peach

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.
Released : 13th-May-1958

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A Wanderer's Notebook

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
Released : 29th-Sep-1962

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Spring Dreams

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1960

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Broken Drum

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
Released : 1st-Dec-1949

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The Tale of Jiro

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his mother.
Released : 25th-Oct-1955

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The Twilight Story

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.
Released : 28th-Aug-1960

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Moment of Terror

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.
Released : 16th-Apr-1966

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A Woman's Life

A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
Released : 16th-Nov-1963

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The Other Woman

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother.
Released : 30th-May-1961

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Once a Rainy Day

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
Released : 1st-Oct-1966

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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
Released : 29th-Mar-1959

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Kandagawa

Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at a printing factory, and they come to learn the bitterness and sadness of love. The two live humbly by the River Kanda, but are viewed coldly by people around them.
Released : 6th-Apr-1974

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Great X

A 1948 Japanese film.
Released : 7th-May-1948

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The Unbalanced Wheel

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
Released : 3rd-Jul-1957

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The Night of the Seagull

A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress.
Released : 23rd-Oct-1968

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Black River

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
Released : 23rd-Oct-1957

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Okoto and Sasuke

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.
Released : 14th-Oct-1961

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Blind Devotion

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.
Released : 8th-Mar-1961

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Floating Weeds

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake of Ozu's own silent film The Story of Floating Weeds (1934).
Released : 17th-Nov-1959

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To Trap a Kidnapper

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.
Released : 25th-Sep-1982

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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Released : 15th-Jan-1960

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The Daphne

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.
Released : 1st-Oct-1966

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Untamed Woman

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 success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
Released : 28th-May-1957

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Happiness of Us Alone

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
Released : 15th-Jan-1961

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The Snowy Heron

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.
Released : 29th-Nov-1958

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Red-Light Bases

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
Released : 8th-Dec-1953

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Congratulatory Speech


Released : 28th-Dec-1985

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Tomorrow

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of people in Nagasaki the day before that fateful event. It presents the human drama of people's lives, and their feelings of joy and sadness. These include a newlywed couple, an expectant mother, and lovers who must say farewell because the boy is called to serve in the army. Each of these people, like others in the city, hoped to live with their dreams for ‘tomorrow’. But tomorrow never comes for them, as their lives are brought to an abrupt and unexpected end. Knowing how the story ends, in this case, doesn't detract from it at all; rather, it enhances the emotional impact, which is further heightened by the poignant musical score from Teizo Matsumura. 'Ashita' is the first film in Kazuo Kuroki's 'War Requiem Trilogy,' which also includes 'Utsukushii Natsu Kirishima' (2002) and 'Chichi to Kuraseba' (2004).
Released : 13th-Aug-1988

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The Song Lantern

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the actors of the Japanese classical theater No, friendship, hatred and love…
Released : 18th-May-1960

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Tenchu!

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.
Released : 9th-Aug-1969

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Three-Fingered Detective

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large tracts of land. The bride is a former teacher and was rumoured to have had an affair, which explains why the groom's family opposed the union. On the night of the ceremony the bride and groom are killed in a sealed room. There is evidence left, however, as there is a hand print on the wall albeit with only the trace of three fingers.
Released : 9th-Dec-1947

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An Inlet of Muddy Water

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself in.
Released : 23rd-Nov-1953

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Yaneura no Onna-tachi


Released : 14th-May-1956

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Zoku izuko e

Sequel to "真実の愛情を求めて 何処へ" (1954). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka.
Released : 12th-Apr-1967

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TV Credits

3人家族

- The drama features two families, the all-male Shibata family and the all-female Inaba family, and depicts the interactions between the two families with many amusing and heartwarming episodes.
Released : 15th-Oct-1968

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國語元年

- Set in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was ordered with establishing a common national spoken language, this humorous drama focuses on how the national language used today was created.
Released : 8th-Jun-1985

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知らない同志

- Tamiya Jiro's first starring role in a TV drama. The story is set in a fictional supermarket called "Planet" in Tokyo.
Released : 24th-Feb-1972

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