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The Wild Geese (1953 Film)
is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Shirō Toyoda. The film is based on Mori Ōgai's novel of the same name. Hideko Takamine stars as Otama, a young woman who becomes the mistress of a married man in order to support her aging father. Plot Otama is a young woman who has previously been married, though the man turned out to already have been married with a wife and child. Because of this Otama is considered a disgrace and finding a good match near impossible. Feeling pressure to support her father who is frail, aging, and works to support them both by selling candy, Otama agrees to have dinner with a widowed kimono merchant who has offered to keep Otama as his mistress. Unbeknown to her, Suezō, the man she has agreed to meet, is in fact a still married moneylender and the arrangement between them has been set up to settle some debts of the matchmaker. At a restaurant before she meets Suezō, Otama sees a handsome young student, Okada, who also notices her. Nevertheless ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirō Toyoda
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who directed over 60 films during his career spanning 50 years. Career Born in Kyoto, Toyoda moved to Tokyo after finishing high school and studied scriptwriting under the pioneering film director Eizō Tanaka. He joined the Kamata section of the Shōchiku film studios and worked as an assistant director under Yasujirō Shimazu, before giving his directorial debut in 1929. After his move to the independent Tokyo Hassei Eiga Shisaku studio (later Toho), he directed the successful ''Young People'' (1937) and gained a reputation for directing literary adaptations with a humanistic touch, in particular ''Uguisu'' (1938) and '' Spring on Leper's Island'' (1940). After World War II, he achieved fame for his adaptations of writers like Yasunari Kawabata, Kafū Nagai, Naoya Shiga, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Masuji Ibuse, and Ango Sakaguchi, distinguished by their visual imagination and superb acting. Noted works of this era include ''The Wild Gee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumeko Urabe
Kumeko Urabe ( ja, link=no, 浦辺粂子) (October 5, 1902 – October 26, 1989) was a Japanese movie actress, and one of the first in the country. Born Kimura Kume, she also adopted the stage names Kumeko Ichijo, Toyama Midori, Chidori Shizuura and Chidori Toyama. She worked on stage and in film and television. Urabe was born in a rural part of the Shizuoka Prefecture. She lived in several homes while growing up, as she relocated with her father, a Buddhist priest, among the temples to which he was assigned. Urabe completed her education in Numazu, and left school in 1919 to join a theatre company, touring under various stage names as an actor and dancer. In 1923, Urabe auditioned at the film studio Nikkatsu, and adopted the name Kumeko Urabe, by which she was known for the rest of her life. She appeared in her first film the following year, and continued to act until 1987. She worked with such directors as Kenji Mizoguchi and Mikio Naruse, and performed in over 320 films, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s Japanese-language Films
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Japanese Black-and-white Films
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1953 Drama Films
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1953 Films
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1953 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 16 – A new Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. is incorporated following a Consent Judgment to divest their Stanley Warner Theaters. * February 5 – Walt Disney's production of J.M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'', starring Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont, premieres to astounding acclaim from critics and audiences and quickly becomes one of the most beloved Disney films. This is the last Disney animated movie released in partnership RKO Pictures, becoming the last ever smash hit movie of the later company before it bankrupted in 1959. * July 1 – ''Stalag 17'', directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden, premieres and is considered by the critics and audiences to be one of the greatest WWII Prisoner of War films ever made. Holden wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iida Chōko
Iida Chōko (飯田 蝶子) (April 15, 1897 – December 26, 1972) was a Japanese actress. Her real name was Shigehara Tefu. She played working class women and grandmothers, and appeared in more than 300 films. Her husband was cameraman . Biography Early life Iida was born on April 15, 1897 in what is now Asakusa, Tokyo. Though her father was a minor official with the Ministry of Communications, the family didn't have much money, so Iida was sent to live with her maternal grandmother at 2 years old. キネマ旬報1980 Iida was the oldest of 5 children, but because of their poverty the children became malnourished and developed nyctalopia. After studying at a private elementary school, Iida entered the Ueno Koto Jogakko with her grandmother's help, and worked at an outdoor exhibition at night to help with the family's finances. She eventually found that she enjoyed working more than school. She stopped attending school for two months until the seasonal exhibition closed in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuniko Miyake
was a Japanese actress. She appeared in nearly 200 films between 1934 and 1991. Career After graduating from Kuki High School, Miyake joined the Shochiku film studios in 1934 and made her film debut the same year with ''Yume no sasayaki''. She starred in many films directed by Yasujirō Ozu, including ''Late Spring'' and ''Tokyo Story is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children. Upon release, it did not immediately gain international recogni ...''. She also frequently appeared in television dramas. Selected filmography References External links * * 1916 births 1992 deaths Japanese film actresses Japanese television actresses People from Saitama (city) {{Japan-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jukichi Uno
(real name ; 27 September 1914 – 9 January 1988) was a Japanese actor. In 1950, he formed the with Osamu Takizawa and others. Personal life He is the father of musician Akira Terao. Filmography Honours *Medal with Purple Ribbon are medals awarded by the Government of Japan. They are awarded to individuals who have done meritorious deeds and also to those who have achieved excellence in their field of work. The Medals of Honor were established on December 7, 1881, and we ... (1981) References Actors from Fukui Prefecture 1914 births 1988 deaths 20th-century Japanese male actors Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon {{Japan-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Samurai'' (1954) and ''Yojimbo'' (1961), and films by Yasujirō Ozu, such as ''Tokyo Story'' (1953) and ''An Autumn Afternoon'' (1962). He also appeared in ''Kill!'' by Kihachi Okamoto and ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'', a depiction of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His final film was Juzo Itami's ''A-ge-man'' (''Tales of a Golden Geisha'') in 1990. Tōno also starred as the title character in the long-running television ''jidaigeki'' series ''Mito Kōmon'' from 1969 to 1983. In the early years of his career he acted under the name of Katsuji Honjo (本庄克二). Early life Eijirō Tōno was born on 17 September 1907 in Tomioka City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Born to a sake brewery, his father was a Hino merchant (Ōmi merchant), who had move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masashige Narusawa
Masashige Narusawa ( ja, 成沢昌茂, ''Narusawa Masashige''; 29 January 1925 – 13 February 2021) was a Japanese screenwriter and director. Biography Narusawa was best known for writing screenplays for the last films of director Kenji Mizoguchi, including ''The Woman in the Rumor'', ''Princess Yang Kwei Fei'', '' Shin Heike Monogatari'', and ''Street of Shame''. He directed six films and wrote over 80 screenplays between 1949 and 1975. Masashige Narusawa died in Tokyo on 13 February 2021 at the age of 96. Filmography Screenwriter *''The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa'' (1952) *''Tange Sazen'' (1952) *''The Wild Geese'' (1953) *''The Woman in the Rumor'' (1954) *''Princess Yang Kwei Fei'' (1955) *'' Shin Heike Monogatari'' (1955) *''Street of Shame'' (1956) *' (1959) *' (1961) *''Love Under the Crucifix'' (1962) *'' Black Lizard'' (1968) *'' Curse of the Blood'' (1968) Director *'' Yojōhan monogatari: Shōfu shino'' (1966) *''Portrait of Madame Yuki'' (1975) Television *''The Sce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eizō Tanaka
was an early Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor. Life and career Tanaka initially trained as a stage actor in the shingeki movement under Kaoru Osanai, but eventually joined the Nikkatsu film studio in 1917. He debuted as a director in 1918 but mostly had to work with shinpa stories, not the ''shingeki'' techniques he was used to although two early films, ''The Living Corpse'' (''Ikeru shikabane'') and ''The Cherry Orchard'' (''Sakura no sono'') were based on Tolstoy and Chekhov respectively. Working in parallel with the Pure Film Movement, Tanaka made two films, '' Kyōya eirimise'' (1922) and '' Dokuro no mai'' (1923), based on his own screenplays, that were highly praised for their cinematic technique. He remained a rather conservative filmmaker and still used '' oyama'' (male actors) in female roles, including in his masterpiece ''Kyōya eirimise'', a melodrama about a merchant's destructive love for a geisha. He used actresses for the first time in ''Dokuro no m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
