Masao Mishima — Actor (83)
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Good-for-Nothing (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ろくでなし
director: Yoshishige Yoshida actor: Masahiko Tsugawa / Yūsuke Kawazu …
other title: Bon à rien / ろくでなし
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.
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Morning's Tree-Lined Street (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
朝の並木路
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Sachiko Chiba / Heihachirō Ōkawa …
other title: Une avenue au matin / 朝の並木路
After some fruitless career hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza, this is a neighbourhood tavern where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name...
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The Actress and the Poet (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
女優と詩人
director: 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) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
鶴八鶴次郎
director: 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) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
桃中軒雲右衛門
director: 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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Two Wives (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
妻二人
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Ayako Wakao / Mariko Okada …
other title: Deux épouses / Two wives …
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven couples tautens right up to the nearly unbearable tension of the climax...
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Composition Class (1938) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
綴方教室
director: Kajirō Yamamoto actor: Hideko Takamine / Masaru Kodaka …
other title: La Classe de composition / 綴方教室 …
Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much publicized essay ends up causing the family problems and their chronic money troubles threaten Masako's further education.
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In Tears (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
泣かせるぜ
director: Akinori Matsuo actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 泣かせるぜ
Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage. Hiroshi is baffled when his captain approaches the Daigo-Kuroshiomaru crew, a notorious group nicknamed "the hoodlums of the sea". Their offer is greeted with scoffs and quickly turned down.
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Dice and Swords (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
遊侠三国志　鉄火の花道
director: Akinori Matsuo actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Hideki Takahashi …
other title: 遊侠三国志　鉄火の花道
The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.
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Ginza Cosmetics (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
銀座化粧
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Kinuyo Tanaka / Ranko Hanai …
other title: Le Fard de Ginza / Camareras de Ginza …
A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a smart young boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to others' needs, she'll end by taking part herself in one of the many disguises of Ginza.
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Hiroshima (1953) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
ひろしま
director: Hideo Sekigawa actor: Isuzu Yamada / Eiji Okada …
other title: ひろしま
Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially children, of that city.
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Mysterious Dwarf (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
一寸法師
director: Seiichiro Uchikawa actor: Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi / Mitsuko Miura …
other title: 一寸法師
The daughter of a wealthy family goes missing at the same time a mysterious dwarf is running around town scattering body parts in public areas.
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Avalanche (1937) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
雪崩
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Noboru Kiritachi / Ranko Edogawa …
other title: 雪崩 / Nadare
The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his wife.