Eiko Miyoshi — Actor (31)
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Escape Zone (1953) TMDB
逃亡地帶
director: Toshio Sugie actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Takashi Shimura …
other title: 逃亡地帶
Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a beautiful woman with a sad face.
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs (1952) IMDb TMDB
足にさわった女
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Fubuki Koshiji / Ryō Ikebe …
other title: 足にさわった女
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of course, the detective falls in love with his prey.
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The Skin of the South (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
南国の肌
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Hajime Izu / Yasuko Fujita …
other title: 南国の肌 / Nangoku no hada
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one end, they must contend with the local villagers who balk at the prospect of relocation; on the other, they face the ambitions of the headstrong lumber baron, whose actions will only further destabilize the land. Their pleas for reason ignored, the scientists can do little but observe as nature runs its inevitable course.
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Okuni and Gohei (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
お國と五平
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Michiyo Kogure / Tomiemon Otomo …
other title: Okuni et Gohei / Okuni y Gohei …
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until they have fulfilled their duty of hunting down and killing Tomonojo.
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Snow Country (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB
雪国
director: Shirō Toyoda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Keiko Kishi …
other title: Pays de la neige / 雪国 …
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?
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Notes of an Itinerant Performer (1941) IMDb TMDB
歌女おぼえ書
director: Hiroshi Shimizu actor: Yaeko Mizutani / Ken Uehara …
other title: Notes d'une chanteuse ambulante / 歌女おぼえ書
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performances. A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsu’s place, where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance.
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Black River (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB
黒い河
director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Fumio Watanabe / Ineko Arima …
other title: La Rivière noire / Río Negro …
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.
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The Beast Shall Die (1959) IMDb TMDB
野獣死すべし
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Hiroshi Koizumi …
other title: 野獣死すべし
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
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No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
わが青春に悔なし
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Setsuko Hara / Susumu Fujita …
other title: Non rimpiango la mia giovinezza / Não Lamento a Minha Juventude …
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own path in pre- and post-WWII Japan.
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The Idiot (1951)
白痴
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Setsuko Hara / Masayuki Mori …
other title: L'idiota / O Idiota …
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.
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An Inn at Osaka (1954) IMDb TMDB
大阪の宿
director: Heinosuke Gosho actor: Shūji Sano / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Une auberge à Osaka / 大阪の宿
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.