Kamatari Fujiwara — Actor (70)
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The Actress and the Poet (1935)
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Mikio Naruse actor: Sachiko Chiba / Kamatari Fujiwara …
other title: L'Actrice et le Poète / 女優と詩人 …
Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and his nosy and greedy wife. Enter a young and seemingly high-class couple who just so happens is open to purchasing life insurance from their swift neighbour. In the meantime, life is imitating art across the street, which may end up providing for either a happy ending or a rude split - eventually that is.
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Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938)
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Mikio Naruse actor: Kazuo Hasegawa / Isuzu Yamada …
other title: Tsuruhachi et Tsurujiro / 鶴八鶴次郎 …
Mr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer assisted by Ms. Tsuruhachi on the shamisen. The pair is popular, but he often nitpicks her music and so they split. She marries a benefactor, but after a joint show, feels music is above marriage.
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Man of the House (1936)
桃中軒雲右衛門 WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Mikio Naruse actor: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata / Chikako Hosokawa …
other title: Tochuken Kumoemon / 桃中軒雲右衛門 …
This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played shamisen for his songs/recitations), his affair with a geisha (Sachiko Chiba), and the deterioration of his partnership and marriage.
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The Approach of Autumn (1960)
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Mikio Naruse actor: Nobuko Otowa / Yōsuke Natsuki …
other title: À l'approche de l'automne / Autumn Has Already Started …
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper.
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The Girl in the Rumor (1935)
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Mikio Naruse actor: Sachiko Chiba / Ryuko Umezono …
other title: La Fille dont on parle / La mujer en boca de todos …
A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but is running into financial trouble, causing him to tamper with his stock; Meanwhile, his long-time mistress yearns for something more serious. Amidst this, the older sister is introduced to a well-off suitor: A university boy, much more intrigued by the less traditional little sister. A doddering grandfather, an officious uncle and busybody neighbors also don't make the lives of the hardworking members of the family any easier.
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The Munekata Sisters (1950)
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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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The Skin of the South (1952)
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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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23 Steps to Bed (1962)
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Eizō Sugawa actor: Reiko Dan / Keizō Kawasaki …
other title: ある大阪の女
An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who stole money from his firm to repay his son's debt.
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Sasaki Kojiro (1951)
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Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Tomiemon Otomo / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: 佐々木小次郎
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasaki Kojiro, who rises from humble beginnings to national fame, and a young Toshiro Mifune appears as the legendary master swordsman Miyamoto Musashi for the first time and essentially sets the standard for future portrayals.This masterpiece is based on the original story as written by noted author Murakami Genzo and is far superior to any other versions. Following Kojiro from his earliest days through his fateful meeting with Musashi, this movie is filled with exciting and dramatic moments culminating in the best version of the final duel ever seen on film.
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Okuni and Gohei (1952)
お國と五平
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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I Am a Cat (1936)
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Kajirō Yamamoto actor: Musei Tokugawa / Sadao Maruyama …
other title: 吾輩は猫である
1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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Five Men in a Circus (1935)
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Mikio Naruse actor: Heihachirō Ōkawa / Hiroshi Uruki …
other title: Cinq types au cirque / サーカス五人組 …
The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the two daughters of the aging and irascible ringmaster-circus owner. The high points are the sound (and score) and cinematography featuring a lot of vertiginous panning (appropriate - as high wire trapeze artists are also an important element in the film). A fascinating side-light on 30s Japan.