was a Japanese

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active from 1936 to 1977. A popular star of the

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film studios, he is best known for his appearances in the films of Yasujirō Ozu,

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, Heinosuke Gosho and Hiroshi Shimizu.

Selected filmography

* 1936: ''The New Road (Part one)'' (新道前篇, ''Shindo: Zenpen'') – dir. Heinosuke Gosho * 1937: ''

What Did the Lady Forget? is a 1937 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. In 2009 the film was ranked at No. 59 on the list of the ''Greatest Japanese Films of All Time'' by Japanese film magazine ''Kinema Junpo''. Plot Komiya is a good-natured professor o ...

'' (淑女は何を忘れたか, ''Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka'') – dir. Yasujirō Ozu * 1937: ''Konjiki yasha'' (金色夜叉) – dir. Hiroshi Shimizu * 1937: ''Forget Love for Now'' (恋も忘れて, ''Koi mo wasurete'') – dir. Hiroshi Shimizu * 1942: ''

There Was a Father is a 1942 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. Plot summary Shuhei Horikawa (Chishū Ryū) works as a mathematics school-teacher in a middle school. A widower, he has a ten-year-old son named Ryohei ( Haruhiko Tsuda), who studies in the same ...

'' (父ありき, ''Chichi Ariki'') – dir. Yasujirō Ozu * 1944: ''

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'' (陸軍, ''Rikugun'') – dir.

* 1948: ''

A Hen in the Wind is a 1948 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Kinuyo Tanaka and Shūji Sano. Plot The film is set in immediate postwar Japan, Tokyo. Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka), a twenty-nine-year-old mother of a young boy of four, is waiting f ...

'' (風の中の牝鶏, ''Kaze no naka no mendori'') – dir. Yasujirō Ozu * 1949: ''A Toast to the Young Miss'' (お嬢さん乾杯, ''Ojōsan kanpai'') – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita * 1951: ''

Carmen Comes Home is a 1951 Japanese comedy film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. It was Japan's first feature length colour film. Plot Due to the renovation of the Tokyo based venue where she works, Okin, stage name Lily Carmen, and her lovesick friend Maya pay her ...

'' (カルメン故郷に帰る, ''Karumen kokyō ni kaeru'') – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita * 1951: '' Early Summer'' (麦秋, ''Bakushu'') – dir. Yasujirō Ozu * 1953: ''Mogura Yokochō'' (もぐら横丁) – dir. Hiroshi Shimizu * 1954: ''

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'' (大阪の宿, ''Osaka no yado'') – dir. Heinosuke Gosho * 1954: ''The Cock Crows Twice'' (鶏はふたゝび鳴く, ''Niwatori wa futatabi naku'') – dir. Heinosuke Gosho * 1955: ''The Moon Has Risen'' (月は昇りぬ, ''Tsuki wa noborinu'') – dir. Kinuyo Tanaka * 1955: ''

The Maid's Kid *''This article uses Eastern name order when mentioning individuals.'' is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese drama film directed by Tasaka Tomotaka. It is based on the novel of the same title by Yuki Shigeko. The film reached place 7 in ''Kin ...

'' (女中ッ子, ''Jochūkko'') – dir.

Tomotaka Tasaka was a Japanese film director. Career Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, he began working at Nikkatsu's Kyoto studio in 1924 and eventually came to prominence for a series of realist, humanist films made at Nikkatsu's Tamagawa studio in the late 193 ...

* 1956: '' Sudden Rain'' (驟雨, ''Shūu'') – dir.

Mikio Naruse was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967. Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily shomin-geki ("common people drama") films with female protagonists, ...

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