, lit. "Madame Company President", is a 1953 Japanese black-and-white
musical film directed by
Yuzo Kawashima
was a Japanese film director, most famous for making tragi-comic films and satires.
Career
Kawashima was born in Mutsu, Aomori in the Shimokita Peninsula. From his youth, he suffered from a paralysis that affected his right leg and arm. He was ...
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Cast
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Hibari Misora
was a Japanese singer, actress and cultural icon. She received a Medal of Honor for her contributions to music and for improving the welfare of the public, and was the first woman to receive the People's Honour Award, which was conferred posth ...
as Madoka Ohara
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Ichirō Arishima
was a Japanese comedian and actor. Nicknamed "The Japanese Chaplin", he is best known outside Japan for his appearance as Tako, the promoter of King Kong in ''King Kong vs. Godzilla'' (1962).
Arishima's real name was Tadao Oshima. He was bor ...
as Tetsutaro Kaitani
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Takiko Egawa as musical actress
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Kodayu Ichikawa as Juzaburo Ohara
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Kokinji Katsura as Sanpachi Sakurakawa
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Shoichi Kofujita as Mr. O
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Yōko Kosono as Kikuko Morikawa
* Tatsuo Nagai as Mito
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Shinyo Nara as a tutor Sugiura
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Shirō Osaka as Keigo Namiki
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Keiji Sada
is the stage name for a Japanese cinema actor active from the late-1940s to the early 1960s. His real name was Kanichi Nakai. He won the award for best actor at the 7th Blue Ribbon Awards for and . He was the father of the actor Kiichi Nakai an ...
as Goro Akiyama
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Takeshi Sakamoto
was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1926 to 1965.
Selected filmography
External links
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1899 births
1974 deaths
Japanese male film actors
Actors from Hyōgo Prefecture
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as Ippachi Sakurakawa
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Mutsuko Sakura
was a Japanese actress.
Her hobby was golf. She started work at Shochiku in 1950, and played supporting roles in some of Yasujirō Ozu's films. She was a constant in Japanese film and TV drama for half of the 20th century.
Selected filmograp ...
as Osugi Morikawa
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Ichirō Shimizu
, also written Ichiro, Ichirou or Ichiroh is a masculine Japanese given name. The name is occasionally given to the first-born son in a family.
Like many Japanese names, Ichirō can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
* 一 ...
as Senzo Akakura
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Akira Takaya as Gamaroku
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Norikazu Takeda as Matsuzo Morikawa
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Jun Tatara
Jun or JUN may refer to:
People and anthroponymy
* Jun (given name), a common Japanese given name
* Jun (singer), a member of South Korean boy band U-KISS
* Tomáš Jun, Czech footballer
* A spelling of common Korean family name Jeon (Korean surn ...
as Yasuda
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Yumeji Tsukioka
was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in more than 150 films between 1940 and 1994. She starred in the film ''The Temptress and the Monk'', which was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival. Her husband was the director Umets ...
as Yumiko Kaitani
References
External links
* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408052/
Japanese black-and-white films
1953 films
Films directed by Yuzo Kawashima
1953 musical films
Shochiku films
Japanese musical films
1950s Japanese films
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