Mariko Kaga — Actor (32)
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Paper Lantern (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ちょうちん
director: Shunichi Kajima actor: Takanori Jinnai / Eri Ishida …
other title: ちょうちん / Chōchin
A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer who has very little left to live.
This film is based on the posthumous manuscript of Shoji Kaneko, the legendary director who died of cancer after completing work on the hit "Ryuji".
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Patisserie Coin De Rue (2011) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
洋菓子店コアンドル
director: Yoshihiro Fukagawa actor: Yu Aoi / Yosuke Eguchi …
other title: Pâtisserie Coin de Rue / 洋菓子店コアンドル …
A disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work. Aiming to become a high-calibre pastry chef, she is determined to overcome both her past and the challenges ahead. Pastry critic Tomura is a frequent visitor to Coin de Rue. Moved by Natsume's persistence, he slowly begins to confront his own painful past aided, of course, by mouthfuls of tasty pastries.
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Curtain Call (1984) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
愛情物語
director: Haruki Kadokawa actor: Tomoyo Harada / Mitsuko Baisho …
other title: 愛情物語 / Aijō monogatari
Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her real father, "Daddy-Long-Legs", who sends a bouquet of flowers every birthday, once she can wear a special pair of pointe shoes. The day finally arrives and Miho's small adventure begins.
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Spring Bell (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
春の鐘
director: Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Kinya Kitaoji / Yoshiko Mita …
other title: 春の鐘 / Haru no Kane
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, despite his wishes, and the two live separately. Feeling lonely and neglected by her husband, she immerses herself in the depraved life of the city and continues to have a loveless relationship with a doctor, Katsumori. One day, Narumi arrives in Tokyo and learns of Noriko's affair, but he cannot divorce her for the sake of their child, so he devotes himself to his work.
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3,000 Kilometer Trap (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
3000キロの罠
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Jirō Tamiya / Kaori Taniguchi …
other title: 3000キロの罠
A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers across the length of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido.
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Only on Mondays (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
月曜日のユカ
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Mariko Kaga / Tanie Kitabayashi …
other title: Les Lundis de Yuka / 月曜日のユカ
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society.
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Oración (1988) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
優駿 ORACIÓN
director: Shigemichi Sugita actor: Yuki Saito / Naoto Ogata …
other title: 優駿 ORACIÓN / Oracion …
Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given the name Oracion or "prayer". When Oracion is grown, a factory owner buys the horse. Will he be the key to solving the man's problems? Based on the novel by Teru Miyamoto.
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A Flame at the Pier (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
涙を、獅子のたて髪に
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Takashi Fujiki / Tamotsu Hayakawa …
other title: Lágrimas en la melena del león / 涙を、獅子のたて髪に
A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar.
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A Legend or Was It? (1963) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
死闘の伝説
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Shima Iwashita / Mariko Kaga …
other title: La Légende du combat à mort / 死闘の伝説 …
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.