Kumeko Urabe — Actor (39)
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An Innocent Witch (1965) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
恐山の女
director: Heinosuke Gosho actor: Jitsuko Yoshimura / Keizō Kawasaki …
other title: 恐山の女
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions.
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The Rainbow Man (1949) WikiData IMDb TMDB
虹男
director: Kiyohiko Ushihara actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Teruko Akatsuki …
other title: Nijiotoko / 虹男
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.
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Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
雪夫人絵図
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Michiyo Kogure / Ken Uehara …
other title: Il ritratto della signora Yuki / Le Destin de madame Yuki …
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.
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Brother and Sister (1953) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
あにいもうと
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Machiko Kyō / Masayuki Mori …
other title: Frère aîné, sœur cadette / Hermano y hermana …
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.
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The 26 Martyrs of Japan (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
殉教血史 日本二十六聖人
director: Tomiyasu Ikeda actor: Kaichi Yamamoto / Yutaka Mimasu …
other title: Sangre en el Japón / 殉教血史 日本二十六聖人 …
Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.
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Jakoman and Tetsu (1964)
ジャコ萬と鉄
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Ken Takakura / Tetsuro Tamba …
other title: Jakoman et Tetsu / ジャコ萬と鉄
In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.
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The Water Magician (1933)
瀧の白糸
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Takako Irie / Tokihiko Okada …
other title: Le Fil blanc de la cascade / El hilo blanco de la catarata …
Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always encloses money in her letters to him, until one hard winter there is no work to be found.
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Street of Shame (1956)
赤線地帯
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Machiko Kyō / Ayako Wakao …
other title: La strada della vergogna / Rua da Vergonha …
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
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Women of the Night (1948) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
夜の女たち
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Kinuyo Tanaka / Sanae Takasugi …
other title: Le donne della notte / Mulheres da Noite …
In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.
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She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
野菊の如き君なりき
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Noriko Arita / Shinji Tanaka …
other title: Comme une fleur des champs / Ella era como un crisantemo salvaje …
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
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Yearning (1964)
乱れる
★ 9.4 (5 ratings) director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Yumi Shirakawa …
other title: Tormento / Midareru - Sehnsucht …
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.
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Stakeout (1958)
張込み
director: Yoshitaro Nomura actor: Minoru Ōki / Takahiro Tamura …
other title: 張込み / Le Guet-apens …
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
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Sound in the Mist (1956) IMDb TMDB NeoDB
霧の音
director: Hiroshi Shimizu actor: Ken Uehara / Michiyo Kogure …
other title: O Som do Nevoeiro / Le Chant de la brume …
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Kazuhiko's wife Kazuyo comes to see them and confronts the professor about his extramarital affair, and Tsuruko, an inevitable witness to the confrontation, leaves the professor the following morning. Over the next decade, whenever he visits the mountain cabin every autumn equinox, the memory of Tsuruko will forever haunt Kazuhiko...
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Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
二十四の瞳
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Hideko Takamine / Hideki Gôko …
other title: Ventiquattro occhi / Vierundzwanzig Augen …
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.
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Floating Weeds (1959)
浮草
director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Ganjirō Nakamura II / Machiko Kyō …
other title: Erbe fluttuanti / Ervas Flutuantes …
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.
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Lonely heart (1985)
さびしんぼう
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: 富田靖子 / 尾美利德 …
other title: 寂寞的人 / さびしんぼう …
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche, or is she real?
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Ikiru (1952)
生きる
★ 8.6 (14 ratings) director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Takashi Shimura / Haruo Tanaka …
other title: Vivere / At leve …
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.