Eijirō Tōno — Actor (99)
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Life of Hishakaku 2 (1963) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
人生劇場　続　飛車角
director: Tadashi Sawashima actor: Koji Tsuruta / Yoshiko Sakuma …
other title: Theater of Life: Return of Hishakaku / 人生劇場　続　飛車角 …
Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain their turf from their rival, Domoto family. To reciprocate the kindness of the Kikkyos, Hishakaku heads to meet the leader of Domoto, Osumi, and finds himself emotionally involved with her.
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An Osaka Story (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
大阪物語
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Shintarō Katsu …
other title: Uma história sobre Osaka / Une histoire d'Osaka …
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.
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Farewell to Dream (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
夕やけ雲
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Shinji Tanaka / Yūko Mochizuki …
other title: Nuages au crépuscule / 夕やけ雲
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
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Our Happiness Alone (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
二十一歳の父
director: Noboru Nakamura actor: Homare Suguro / Kei Yamamoto …
other title: 二十一歳の父
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Mototsugu becomes disgusted with such strait-laced living and leaves home to marry Yoshiko, a blind masseuse, and they live in a small apartment near a pinball parlor where he works.
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Challenge to Live (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
愛と炎と
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Tatsuya Mihashi / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: 愛と炎と
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during the Pacific War. Matters are complicated further when he falls in love with the soldier's younger sister (Tsukasa).
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Flame of My Love (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
わが恋は燃えぬ
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Kinuyo Tanaka / Mitsuko Mito …
other title: Il mio amore brucia / Flamme de mon amour …
In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.
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Untamed Woman (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
あらくれ
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Ken Uehara …
other title: Une femme indomptable / Una mujer indomable …
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
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Facing to the Clouds (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
雲に向かって起つ
director: Eisuke Takizawa actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 雲に向かって起つ
A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Nakafuji. Reiko's father was a member of the Diet who was assassinated six years ago. Through Reiko, Takema joins Tsūkai-kai, a group of young people who respect her late father's political ideas. With the assistance of Tsukai-kai, Takema eventually uncovers the political scandal related to postwar compensation which led to the murder of Reiko's father.
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Dash to the Sun (1966) [Movie] TMDB
太陽に突っ走れ
director: Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Yukiyo Toake …
other title: 太陽に突っ走れ
A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.