Yoshiko Hirose
Actor
Movies21
MovieComedySoemon, the master of Gidayū-style madcap performances, has gathered the entire tenement block again tonight and is tormenting everyone with his terrible Gidayū singing.
Movie6.3DramaA high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until they have fulfilled their duty of hunting down and killing Tomonojo.
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Movie8.0A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.
Movie8.0A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
Movie6.5DramaA motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the crowded streets of Ginza.
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Movie6.6DramaActionMataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.
Movie7.5DramaRomanceThe 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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Movie7.0DramaA family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the clinic lying dormant the doctor's wife rents the premises to her husband's underling. This is a man who does not accept payment from the poor. The woman, in the meantime, works at a restaurant whose owner being ill has given her additional duties. Her younger sister is an unmarried finance writer who also lives with them. It is both sisters, however, who receive marriage proposals.
MovieDramaPeriod film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
Movie6.9DramaA married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Movie6.4DramaThe troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.
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Movie8.0Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
MovieDramaA film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Movie9.0DramaStory about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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Movie7.0DramaActionThe rise of the famed gambler.
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