So Yamamura — Actor (52)
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The Munekata Sisters (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
宗方姉妹
director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Kinuyo Tanaka / Hideko Takamine …
other title: Le sorelle Munekata / As Irmãs Munekata …
Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. But now he's back and Mariko tries to reunite them, although she too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.
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Nemuri Kyōshirō (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
眠狂四郎
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Eiichiro Funakoshi / Kei Saitô …
other title: 眠狂四郎
Kyoshiro rescues Shizu who was being abused by her husband, even since she had been violated by the man posing as Ieyoshi. He then learned that Ieyoshi had been acting oddly ever since returning from Kyoto six months ago. Sir Fumiya's investigation of the O'oku (Shogun's harem in Edo Castle) uncovered the plot and reported that Sir Higo-no-Kami had been controlling the fraud. That's when Kyoshiro heads to Kyoto to find clues...
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A Geisha's Diary (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
女は二度生まれる
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Ayako Wakao / Jun Fujimaki …
other title: Les femmes naissent deux fois / Onna wa nido umareru …
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.
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Gung Ho (1986) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Gung Ho
director: Ron Howard actor: Michael Keaton / Gedde Watanabe …
other title: Gung Ho - Arrivano i Giapponesi / Koks i kølerhjelmen …
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
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The Love of the Actress Sumako (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
女優須磨子の恋
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Kinuyo Tanaka / So Yamamura …
other title: L'Amour de l'actrice Sumako / El amor de la actriz Sumako …
Stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent.
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Okuni and Gohei (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
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.