Kan Yanagiya — Actor (17)
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With Songs in My Heart (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
希望の乙女
director: Yasushi Sasaki actor: Hibari Misora / Ken Takakura …
other title: 希望の乙女
Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and songs, this story shows how a girl raised on a farm was able to make her dream a reality, with the love of those around her.
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Frankie the Milkman (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
牛乳屋フランキー
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Frankie Sakai / Sumiko Minami …
other title: 牛乳屋フランキー
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.
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Detective (1964) [Movie] TMDB
刑事
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Tetsuro Tamba / Kōtarō Satomi …
other title: 刑事
The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which takes place in Yokohama. Tamba enthusiastically plays a police inspector who pursues a criminal who kidnapped his sister.
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The Angry Street (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
怒りの街
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Jūkichi Uno / Yasumi Hara …
other title: La Rue en colère / 怒りの街
University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Sudo becomes gradually involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sister Masako. In this world of bad boys and girls, Masako is the pillar of strength and moral virtue who finally enables Mori to straighten out.
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The Blue Pearl (1951) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
青い眞珠
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Yukiko Shimazaki …
other title: 青い眞珠
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life.
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The Skin of the South (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
南国の肌
director: 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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Yearning (1964) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
乱れる
9.4 (5 ratings) director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Yūzō Kayama …
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.