Chieko Baisho — Actor (42)
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Ballad of a Workman (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
二人で歩いた幾春秋
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Hideko Takamine / Keiji Sada …
other title: Journal d'un ouvrier / 二人で歩いた幾春秋
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
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In Broad Daylight (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
白昼堂々
director: Yoshitarō Nomura actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho …
other title: 白昼堂々
After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindler buddies. However, one by one, his friends start getting caught. Katsuji decides to play a high stakes game of robbing the proceeds of a department store.
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The Village (1975) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
同胞
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Chieko Baisho / Akira Terao …
other title: 同胞
This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and, being that they are farmers and always busy and not rich, question the wisdom and feasibility of such an idea. A spokesperson for the acting troupe Ms. Kono lays out the whole thing and they must decide. You get little slices of rural life in Japan far, at least in sentiment, from Tokyo. The best thing about this film is that it has heart. The acting is good, but it is really about the simple storyline of outing on a show. Films rarely get made with such simplistic plots these days. Enjoy this little slice of what city people call “the simple life”.
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Where Spring Comes Late (1970) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
家族
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Chieko Baisho / Hisashi Igawa …
other title: 家族 / Kazoku …
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.
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Tora-san's Runaway (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
男はつらいよ 望郷篇
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho …
other title: La nostalgie / 男はつらいよ 望郷篇
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.
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A Trap (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
霧の旗
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Chieko Baisho / Osamu Takizawa …
other title: Drapeau dans la brume / 霧の旗
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
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Home from the Sea (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
故郷
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Chieko Baisho / Hisashi Igawa …
other title: Home from the sea / 故郷
On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the deepest affection for this piece of land they call home, and the simple life they lead. But rapid industrial growth makes it all but impossible to continue their chosen living style, and they are forced to leave their beloved hometown in search of a brighter future. But their hometown lingers on their hearts, and they dream of a time when they may once again return.
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Our Happiness Alone (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
二十一歳の父
director: Noboru Nakamura actor: Homare Suguro / Kei Yamamoto …
other title: 二十一歳の父
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Mototsugu becomes disgusted with such strait-laced living and leaves home to marry Yoshiko, a blind masseuse, and they live in a small apartment near a pinball parlor where he works.
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Glory on the Summit (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
山の讃歌　燃ゆる若者たち
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Takahiro Tamura / Tamotsu Hayakawa …
other title: 山の讃歌　燃ゆる若者たち
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.