Emiko Yagumo
Actor · 1903 – 1979 · Osaka, Japan
Emiko Yagumo (August 15, 1903 - January 13, 1979) was a Japanese actress, real name Chiyoko Tamano. At the age of 18, she fled home to follow a lover to Shanghai. On her return to Japan, she became a geisha. She appeared in 110 films between 1926 and 1937 before she retired and founded a beauty company.
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Movie7.2DramaAn aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.
Movie6.8ComedyDramaDuring the Depression, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is sacked for defending an older colleague.
MovieJapanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.
Movie6.3DramaCrimeIn Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise.
MovieDramaThis 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
Movie6.0DramaRomanceToshie, a young, conservative secretary-typist has fallen in love with Shozo Narita, a young man she has met through her work.
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MovieDramaJapanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.
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Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.
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Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.
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Japanese silent film from 1929.
MovieDramaJapanese silent film from 1928.
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Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.
Honoo no sora
1927
Movie7.0Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is now a union leader in opposition of her husband.
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Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son. Heartbroken, Kan’ichi becomes a moneylender, and years later their paths cross again under changed circumstances. Adapted from a popular serialized novel of the same name.
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The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.
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1926 silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.