Kō Mihashi

AKA:
1.3421

1895-06-26

Tokyo, Japan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {57}

Rôkyôshi

1961-01-28 8.4

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different h ...
Genre :War, Drama, History

1960-03-22 0

The Samurai Markets

The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period. ...
Genre :Drama

1951-10-26 5

Sasaki Kojiro

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasaki Kojiro, who rises from humble beginnings to nati ...
Genre :Action, History

Hanzaaemon Yoshinoya

1939-12-20 0

Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen. ...
Genre :History, Action

1954-05-18 0

Cape Ashizuri

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student activist disenchanted by the increasingly hawkish state of Japa ...
Genre :Drama

Isono

1936-06-01 6

Man of the House

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played shamisen for his songs/recitations), his affair with a gei ...
Genre :Drama, History

Chiyo's father

1936-11-01 6.7

Morning's Tree-Lined Street

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolita ...
Genre :Drama

Toyomi's father

1937-10-01 6

Learn from Experience, Part One

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of Mizoguchi’s "Water Magician), a rich young woman in love ...
Genre :Drama

1954-01-03 0

Hanran

Genre :Drama, History

Kondo

1938-02-01 0

Subterranean Heat

Genre :History, Drama

1939-01-11 0

Enoken’s Shrewd Period

Genre :Comedy

1953-03-21 0

Murahachibu

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections ...
Genre :Drama

1949-11-28 0

A Woman's Face

1949 drama film ...
Genre :Drama

1938-06-11 0

Pastoral Symphony

A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her. ...
Genre :Drama

Ibei

1939-06-22 0

The Fighting Firemen

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the Ha-gumi group, from a samurai who is trying to kid ...
Genre :Drama

1955-07-03 6.8

The Wolves

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1954-03-13 8

Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki

The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking in the castle. ...
Genre :Horror

Ito Kihei

1956-07-12 5.6

The Ghosts of Yotsuya

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) writ ...
Genre :Horror

1958-02-08 0

Island of Fury

Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat. ...
Genre :Drama

Uncle

1940-07-30 0

Bellflower

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a poor young girl, trying to become a teacher on her qu ...
Genre :Drama

1937-03-11 0

Karayuki-san

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed-race son." - Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes Uni ...
Genre :

1940-03-20 0

Wedding Day

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen brid ...
Genre :Drama

1937-01-21 6.7

A Woman's Sorrows

Young Hiroko’s (Takako Irie) conservative principles place her at odds with most modern women, as she has already submitted to her mother’s choice of man for any marriage prospect. Married into an aff ...
Genre :Drama

Wakasaya

1940-12-18 6.1

Travelling Actors

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan. ...
Genre :Comedy

Kenkichi

1935-12-22 5.9

The Girl in the Rumor

A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but is running into financial trouble, causing him to ta ...
Genre :Drama

Principal

1959-03-03 0

Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy

Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village. ...
Genre :Drama

Seiroku

1935-10-21 5.4

Five Men in a Circus

The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the two daughters of the aging and irascible ringmaster-c ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Honami Koetsu

1955-07-12 7.176

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's fin ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

Physics teacher

1941-08-27 0

Schoolgirl Records

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan. ...
Genre :Drama

Sankichi's father

1935-06-01 0

Drifting

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel. ...
Genre :

1940-01-02 0

China Night

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part Shan ...
Genre :Drama

Shintaro Okada

1957-07-13 0

On Wings of Love

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film released in Tohoscope. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

1938-11-09 0

Nightingale

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves. ...
Genre :Drama

1952-02-14 0

The Wind Blows Twice

Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a wealthy man and Miyashita, a youth scholar. Kanae is a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1938-02-02 6

The Giant

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in ...
Genre :History, Drama

1939-11-30 0

Song of the White Orchid

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the Kazuo Hasegawa/Shirley Yamaguchi (Ri Koran) “Cont ...
Genre :Drama

Hotta Mamoru

1961-09-13 0

The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku

A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as an illegitimate son to a Shogun as a "gift of hope" ...
Genre :Drama

Honda

1942-01-14 0

Sky of Hope

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance, War

Mr. Hayakawa

1938-03-11 0

Rainbow Hill

A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named Hasegawa checks into the hotel in order to recuperate in a ...
Genre :Comedy

1936-04-14 6

I Am a Cat

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel. ...
Genre :Comedy

1956-11-27 0

Actress

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness. ...
Genre :Drama

Nikko Station Chief Akiyama

1959-10-06 0

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

Genre :Mystery, Thriller

1960-04-26 6

The Man of Seven Faces

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case. ...
Genre :Mystery

1954-11-30 0

Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi

Fukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and changed dramatically. He stopped gambling and womanizing much to the surprise of his friends. As their wed ...
Genre :Drama

1954-08-10 0

Geisha Hidekoma

As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the politicians. ...
Genre :

Kimata

1938-04-21 0

Chorus of the Century--Patriotic March

A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early days as a clarinetist in the Imperial Japanese Navy band to his later years when his music, in particu ...
Genre :

1954-11-08 0

Wakai hito-tachi

Genre :

1959-10-18 0

53 Stages of the Road

An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto. ...
Genre :Drama

1958-02-19 0

Akutoku

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi Shin, a well-known actor who also demonstrated his ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

1955-04-03 0

The Rookie Managers

1955 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1955-07-06 0

むっつり右門捕物帖 鬼面屋敷

1955 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1954-11-10 0

Nage Utasamon sanban tegara: Fukumen dokurotai

Third in the Nage utasamon series ...
Genre :Horror

1937-08-25 7.88

Humanity and Paper Balloons

In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father's former master will hire him while a disgraced hairdresser attempts to regain his pride by kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy pawnbrok ...
Genre :Drama, History

1959-03-03 0

Three Dolls in College

The first of eight "Three Dolls" features. In this entry the girls, students at Nichinan University, balance studying for the final exams while falling for the new French professor. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Factory Manager

1957-11-12 0

Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2

After a transfer to a rural factory, salesman Hideyoshi faces blunders, schemers, and rivalries but proves his integrity, winning respect and a return to headquarters. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Rôkyôshi

1961-01-28 0

The Human Condition

The Human Condition follows the journey of the well-intentioned, yet naïve Kaji who transitions from being a labor camp supervisor to an Imperial Army soldier and eventually Soviet POW. Constantly try ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Factory Manager

1957-06-19 0

Diary of a Successful Salaryman

Optimistic student Hideyoshi struggles to land a job at Japan Motors, facing setbacks and rivalry but winning his way in through persistence—and a mix of charm, luck, and chaos in both work and love. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama