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Sachiko Murase
was a Japanese actress. She appeared in about 90 films between 1927 and 1991. Selected filmography * (1930) * (1930) * (1931) * (1931-1932, part 1, 2) - Ayako Kirihara * (1932) - Mitsuko, reporter * (1932) * (1933) * (1933) * ''A Woman Crying in Spring'' (1933) - Oaki * (1933) * (1933) * (1934) * (1934) - Fumiko * (1935) - Yoshiko * (1935) * (1936) - Namie - stepdaughter * (1938) - Mrs. Hayakawa * ''Sincerity'' (1939) - Mrs. Asada * (1942) - Sakai's wife * (1942) - Sakai's Wife * (1942) * (1943) - O-yuki * (1947) - Fujie Sugawara * (1947) - Masa Hirobe * ''Apostasy'' (1948) - Inoko's wife * (1949) - Proprietress of the bar * (1949) - Yasuko * (1949) - Kuniko * (1950) - Sudô's mother * (1950, part 1, 2) * (1951) - Mihiko * (1951) * (1951) - Sakiko Kodama * (1952) * (1952) * (1952) - Doctor * (1953) - Itsuko, Natsuko's aunt * (1953) - Setsuko's mother * (1953) - Madame * (1953) - Masako * (1953) * (1954) - Shizuko Matsuo * (1955) - Aoshima' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snow Woman
is a 1968 Japanese fantasy horror film directed by Tokuzō Tanaka and produced by Daiei Film. The film is an expanded adaptation of the Yuki-onna short story as it appeared in the 1904 collection '' Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things'' by Lafcadio Hearn. Plot In the midst of a snow storm, an evil witch changes the lives of a master sculptor and his apprentice forever. Cast * Shiho Fujimura as Yuki * Machiko Hasegawa as Wife * Akira Ishihama as Yosaku * Taketoshi Naitō as Mino Gonmori * Yoshiro Kitahara as Jōjin * Sachiko Murase as Soyo * Suga Fujio as Soju * Mizuho Suzuki as Gyokei * Masao Shimizu as Jiun * Shinya Saitō as Taro * Jutaro Hojo as Matsukawa * Tatsuo Hananuno as Shigeruasa * Hara Izumi as Miko * Tokio Oki as Doctor A * Jun Fujikawa as Doctor B * Yukio Horikita as Guard * Ichi Koshikawa as Man of the Agency Release ''The Snow Woman'' was released in Japan on April 20, 1968. It was released in the United States as ''Snow Ghost'' by Daiei Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Film Actresses
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1993 Deaths
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia; In the United States, the ATF besieges a compound belonging to David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in a search for illegal weapons, which ends in the building being set alight and killing most inside; Eritrea gains independence; A major snow storm passes over the United States and Canada, leading to over 300 fatalities; Drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar is killed by Colombian special forces; Ramzi Yousef and other Islamic terrorists detonate a truck bomb in the subterranean garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in the United States., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Oslo I Accord rect 200 0 400 200 1993 Russian constitutional crisis rect 400 0 600 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1905 Births
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Rhapsody In August
is a 1991 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa based on the novel ''Nabe no naka'' by Kiyoko Murata. The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies. American film star Richard Gere appears as Suzujiro's son Clark. The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. ''Rhapsody in August'' is one of only three sole-directed Kurosawa movies to feature a female lead, and the first in nearly half a century. The others are ''The Most Beautiful'' (1944) and ''No Regrets for Our Youth'' (1946). However, Kurosawa also directed most of the female-led ''Uma'' (1941), on which he was credited as assistant director. Plot ''Rhapsody in August'' is a tale of three generations in a post-war Japanese fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Promise (1986 Film)
''A Promise'' ( ja, 人間の約束, translit. Ningen no yakusoku) is a 1986 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Rentarō Mikuni as Ryosaku Morimoto * Sachiko Murase as Tatsu, Ryosaku's wife * Choichiro Kawarazaki as Yoshio, Ryosaku's son * Orie Satoh as Ritsuko, Yoshio's wife * Kōichi Satō as Detective Yoshikawa * Tetta Sugimoto as Takao, Yoshio's son * Reiko Tajima as Saeko Nogawa * Choei Takahashi as Takeya Nakamura * Kumiko Takeda as Naoko, Yoshio's daughter * Tomisaburo Wakayama as Detective Tagami * Masakane Yonekura Masakane Yonekura ( ja, 米倉 斉加年; 7 October 1934 – 26 August 2014) was a Japanese stage director, actor, author and illustrator who was one of the central members of the Gekidan Mingei theatre company. Death On 26 August 2014, Yonekura ... as Detective Miura References External links * 1986 films 1986 drama films Japanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Station (1981 Film)
is a 1981 Japanese film directed by Yasuo Furuhata. Among many awards, it was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. Cast * Ken Takakura: Eiji Mikami * Chieko Baisho: Kiriko (1979) Michio * Ayumi Ishida: Naoko Mikami (1968) * Setsuko Karasuma: Suzuko Yoshimatsu (1976) * Kai Atō: Ryosuke Honjo * Yu Fujiki: Ichiro Mikami * Akihiko Hirata * Ryō Ikebe: Chief Nakagawa * Ken Iwabuchi: Yoshitaka Mikami * Tanie Kitabayashi: Masayo Mikami * Yuko Kotegawa: Fuyuko Mikami * Sachiko Murase: Ryosuke's mother * Hideo Murota: Shigeru Morioka * Toshiyuki Nagashima: Michio Mikami * Akira Nagoya: Takada * Jinpachi Nezu: Goro Yoshimatsu * Junkichi Orimoto * Hideji Otaki: Aiba * Nenji Kobayashi : Detective Tasumi * Kei Satō * Tetsuya Takeda * Masao Komatsu * Kunie Tanaka: Sugawara * Minori Terada: Chikaraishi * Ryudo Uzaki: Yukio Kinoshita * Masako Yagi: Aiba's wife Reception Awards and nominations 5th Japan Academy Prize *Won: Best Picture *Won: Best Screenplay - Sou Ku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Spring
is a 1967 Japanese drama film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Michiyo Aratama * Yoshiko Kayama * Mariko Kaga * Mikijiro Hira * Mitsuko Mori * Eijirō Tōno was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting more than 50 years, appeared in over 400 television shows, nearly 250 films and numerous stage productions. He is best known in the West for his roles in films by Akira Kurosawa, such as ''Seven Samu ... References External links * 1967 films Japanese drama films 1967 drama films Films directed by Noboru Nakamura 1960s Japanese-language films Films scored by Masaru Sato 1960s Japanese films {{1960s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sincerity (1939 Film)
''Sincerity'' ( ja, まごころ, Magokoro) is a 1939 Japanese drama film written and directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on a short story by Yōjirō Ishizaka. Plot In a small countryside town, the schoolyear has ended. While Tomiko, daughter of a single mother and of lower middle-class descent, has been ranked the best pupil in her class, her classmate and friend Nobuko, daughter of a seemingly intact upper-class family, has only been ranked tenth. During a discussion between Mrs. Asada and her husband Keikichi about Nobuko's low grades and her new teacher, whom Mrs. Asada holds responsible, it is revealed that Keikichi, who had been adopted into his wife's family, and Tomiko's mother Tsuta had once been in love. In tears, Mrs. Asada blames him for still feeling attracted to her, overheard by Nobuko. The next day, Nobuko tells Tomiko of her parents' conversation, and both start crying when they get into an argument over their different families. Later, when Nobuko is hurt dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zatoichi And The Doomed Man
is a fictional character created by Japanese novelist Kan Shimozawa. He is an itinerant blind masseur and swordsman of Japan's late Edo period (1830s and 1840s). He first appeared in the 1948 essay , part of Shimozawa's ''Futokoro Techō'' series that was serialized in the magazine ''Shōsetsu to Yomimono''. This originally minor character was drastically altered and developed for the screen by Daiei Film and actor Shintaro Katsu, becoming the subject of one of Japan's longest-running film series. A total of 26 films were made between 1962 and 1989. From 1974 to 1979, a television series was produced, starring Katsu and some of the same actors that appear in the films. Produced by Katsu Productions, 100 episodes were aired before the ''Zatoichi'' television series was cancelled. The seventeenth film of the ''Zatoichi'' series was remade in the US in 1989 by TriStar Pictures as ''Blind Fury'', starring Rutger Hauer. A 2003 film was directed by Takeshi Kitano, who also starred a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zatoichi The Fugitive
is a 1963 Japanese Chambara film directed by Tokuzō Tanaka starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind masseur Zatoichi, originally released by the Daiei Motion Picture Company (now known as Kadokawa Pictures). ''Zatoichi: The Fugitive'' is the fourth episode in the 26 part film series devoted to the character of Zatoichi. Plot Ichi (which is the main character's name, Zato being the lowest rank in the Todoza) travels by foot and enters a local sumo match to earn prize money. Ichi defeats five sighted opponents to win. He is later alone and is attacked by Kisuke, a young yakuza man he has never met. Kisuke is easily dispatched and Ichi berates him for being no match for Ichi and asks why he attacked him. Kisuke tells Ichi that he did it to get ten Ryō reward for killing Ichi. Before dying Kisuke reveals to Ichi that his mother is also yakuza but dies before revealing who placed the bounty on Ichi's head. Ichi travels to the local yakuza house of the Shimonida yakuza family. Just pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
