Kikuko Hanaoka
Oyuncu · 1910 – 1984 · Shizuoka, Japan
Kikuko Hanaoka (September 11, 1910 – June 12, 1984, birth name: Ikuyo Takigawa) was a Japanese actress. She was known as a comedy actress of Shochiku Kamata Studio in the late 1920s. After the war, she acted in Shin-Toho films as a supporting actress.
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Film6.9RomantikDramFive years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko.
FilmKomediThe Chakkari and Ukkarai families live in a modest residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Tokyo. Both husbands are ordinary office workers at the same company. Mrs. Chakkari, Satoko, is incredibly shrewd, while Mrs. Ukkarai, Sachiko, is incredibly absent-minded. As a result, a series of hilarious and tragicomic situations unfolds.
Film7.8RomantikDramIn 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.
Film6.5KorkuThis horror tale adapts the Japanese legend about a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.
FilmKomediThe fourth "Tenamonya" feature. Adapted from the popular television comedy, Fujita stars in this film based on historical events.
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Film6.5DramA few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a smart young boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to others' needs, she'll end by taking part herself in one of the many disguises of Ginza.
Film8.0Dram33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writing Ogata's manuscript, he would buy dorayaki as a gratuity and devour it.
FilmKomediMüzikA spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter.
Film6.5GizemKorkuTanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.
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Film6.5DramKomediWhen a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
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Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
Film8.0Müzik東京シンデレラ娘
1954 · 1 votes
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Film7.0GizemKorku1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.
Film8.0SavaşThe last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.
Film7.0DramThe Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events.
FilmDramRomantikA omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku".
Film8.0KomediLive-action adaptation of Ko Kojima's manga "Sennin buraku".
FilmKomediThe All Girl's Rugby Team try to keep their private college from falling into the hands of Yakuza and unscrupulous businessmen.
Film5.0DramAksiyonBased on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This heartfelt story concerns a wandering gambler from Banba by the name of Chutaro. Set during the Tenpo Period, Chutaro runs afoul of Boss Sukegoro of Iioka. Pursued by vengeance seeking swordsmen, Chutaro displays his phenomenal martial art skills. Abandoned as a child, he seeks to find his long lost mother, while at the same time fighting off numerous attacks by Iioka’s men.
Film7.3KorkuA blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his wife by mistake and then goes to the swamp and drowns himself. 20 years later, the masseur's daughter unknowingly falls in love with the samurai's son who has been brought up to be a servant. After she is horribly disfigured in an accident, he plots to run away with another woman, but the path of their escape lies by the Kasane swamp...