Sachiko Hidari — Actor (17)
Shishun no izumi (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
思春の泉
director: Nobuo Nakagawa actor: Sachiko Hidari / Ken Utsui
other title: 思春の泉 / The Grass Cutter Girl
The long-awaited haymaking season has arrived on the island of Honshu. Work is in full swing in the fields, with young and old alike toiling away. For the young woman Moyoko and the young man Tokizo, it is more fun than work. Both are young, cheerful, excited by the shared anticipation of the harvest festival, and not yet aware that they are beginning to fall in love with each other. That is why the first timid hint of confession causes such turmoil in their souls and almost leads to a serious quarrel. Their quarrelsome aunts did the lovers a disservice...
Sukiyaki (1995) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
スキヤキ
director: Junichi Suzuki actor: Aki Agarita / Sachiko Hidari
other title: スキヤキ
Sukiyaki can be viewed two ways, a popular Japanese cuisine or a gathering of a family. This heart-warming comedy takes place in Yokohama, where the Mihara family owns a restaurant called “Boston Grill”. Experience the ups and downs of this family and learn how they deal with the everyday problems they are faced with during difficult times.
Temptation (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
誘惑
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Koreya Senda / Sachiko Hidari
other title: 誘惑
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.
The Far Road (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
遠い一本の道
other title: 遠い一本の道
Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in the northern part of Japan. The ferocious local class restrictions work to keep her husband in his place, as does his lack of education.
The Balloon (1956) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
風船
other title: 風船 / Fūsen
Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami’s daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throws the family into turmoil.
The Cast-Off (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
氾濫
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Shin Saburi / Ayako Wakao
other title: 氾濫
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
曽根崎心中
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Meiko Kaji / Ryudo Uzaki
other title: Double suicide à Sonezaki / Doble suicidio en Sonezaki
Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.
The Insect Woman (1963) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
にっぽん昆虫記
director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Taiji Tonoyama / Tomio Aoki
other title: Cronache entomologiche del Giappone / A Mulher Inseto
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.