Yōko Umemura
Actor · 1903 – 1944
Movies21
Movie7.8RomanceDramaIn late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the praise he receives is only due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully joins him.
Movie6.7DramaAyako becomes the mistress of her boss in order to pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.
Movie7.1DramaA geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes this, thinking that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them.
Movie6.9DramaHistoryIn the early 18th-century, Lord Takumi-no-kami Asano, feuding with Lord Kira, tries to kill his opponent in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Asano to seppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Kira. Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the Lord's dishonour. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi seeks to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses, and Oishi and 46 rōnin are out for revenge.
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MovieActionDramaA historical drama spanning three generations, centered on the Sydney Special Attack Unit. Recommended by the Ministry of Education.
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Directed by Yutaka Abe (as Jack Abe).
MovieHistoryThe first film produced by Daiei.
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Movie5.4DramaWhen a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women prove to be morally superior to their betters.
Movie9.0ComedyA twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.
Movie6.4DramaHistoryA samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.
Movie8.0WarDramaJapanese war film.
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Movie7.0DramaWhen wealthy Ochika marries desolute Danpei, she devotes herself completely to him and takes over her business, to the point of sowing dissensions within the Jōruri troupe in which her husband plays.
Movie9.0RomanceFollows the life of an illegitimate son of a kabuki actor.
Movie6.6DramaRomanceFujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. However, she becomes enamoured with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono himself is bound by an engagement to Sayoko, daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue.
Movie7.8ActionA Japanese silent film