Tsuruko Mano

AKA:
1.1299

1909-03-11

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {37}

Cleaner

1951-12-28 0

Wedding March

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa ...
Genre :

1954-01-15 7.418

Sound of the Mountain

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman. ...
Genre :Drama

1941-04-22 0

Life Begins at 61

Japanese war-era film ...
Genre :Comedy

1950-06-03 6

White Beast

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility. ...
Genre :Drama

1957-10-29 0

Down Town

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of her missing husband. ...
Genre :Drama

1940-07-10 0

Harmonica Boy

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1963-08-31 6.5

Young Swordsman

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the law is unfair. His brother keeps his opinions about ...
Genre :Drama

1962-09-08 0

Saotome-ka no musume-tachi

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1951-08-03 0

The Blue Pearl

The 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-bo ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1956-10-24 9

The Storm

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone. ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Yamada

1954-11-03 7.6

Godzilla

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form o ...
Genre :Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction

Osumi

1956-12-26 6.494

Rodan

Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru h ...
Genre :Horror, Science Fiction

Woman Farmer in front of Gono

1954-04-26 8.456

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1954-06-15 7.286

Late Chrysanthemums

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating the ...
Genre :Drama

1953-04-29 6.9

Wife

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirite ...
Genre :Drama

Okoma's mother

1941-09-17 7

Hideko the Bus Conductress

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1940-12-18 6.1

Travelling Actors

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

Female Teacher A

1947-11-02 6.8

Spring Awakens

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl. ...
Genre :Drama

1950-01-22 6.5

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Housemaid

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

1941-01-18 5.9

A Fond Face from the Past

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-minute film is Naruse's most moving negotiation of t ...
Genre :Drama

The Boy's Mother (uncredited)

1956-05-18 6.5

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Horror

Shunpei's wife Miyo

1952-02-28 0

The Skin of the South

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one end, they must contend with the local villagers who ...
Genre :

1957-04-30 6.7

Snow Country

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daug ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mrs. Sakuma

1941-03-11 5.8

Horse

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the arm ...
Genre :Drama

1953-01-22 6.6

Husband and Wife

A 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. ...
Genre :Drama

1954-06-08 0

Last of the Wild Ones

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power. ...
Genre :

1960-04-10 6.1

The Secret of the Telegian

Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims. ...
Genre :Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery

(uncredited)

1955-01-09 0

Lovetide

An Ishiro Honda film. ...
Genre :Comedy

Otatsu

1955-06-07 0

Mother and Son

An Ishiro Honda film. ...
Genre :

1959-01-22 0

Echo Mountain

An Ishiro Honda film. ...
Genre :Romance

1962-11-03 7.3

Chûshingura

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor. ...
Genre :History, Drama, Action

1955-01-15 7.687

Floating Clouds

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affa ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1941-10-04 0

Story of Leadership

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is finding the task overwhelming as it is hard work w ...
Genre :Drama

1960-08-14 0

Life of a Country Doctor

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, however, his w ...
Genre :Drama

1963-03-24 0

Crazy Operation: First Move

Genre :Comedy, Music

Elderly Maid

1960-01-27 0

Modern Salaryman: Bushido Romance

Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into defiant relationships that challenge social expectations. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama