Kenichi Miyajima

Acting

Kenichi Miyajima

Born

1895-07-05 (131)

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 3 titles

1950s · 43 titles

Women's Classroom poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Women's Classroom

1959

My Son's Revolt poster
NR

A coming-of-age film.

My Son's Revolt

1958

Street of Shame poster
7.7

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Street of Shame

1956

Aishū ressha poster
NR

A woman saves a man from throwing himself into a mountain lake after being cornered by his yakuza friends.

Aishū ressha

1957

The Moon Over the Ruined Castle poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Moon Over the Ruined Castle

1954

To the Ends of the Earth poster
NR

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his once happier past and the events that destroyed everyone he held dear.

To the Ends of the Earth

1953

Horeruna Yanpachi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Horeruna Yanpachi

1956

Hanayome no tameiki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hanayome no tameiki

1956

Floating Weeds poster
7.5

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

Floating Weeds

1959

Woman of Fire poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Woman of Fire

1954

Kenta to kurotai sensei poster
NR

A heartwarming story about Kenta, an unfortunate boy searching for his father, and Sensei, the town’s hero and black belt.

Kenta to kurotai sensei

1957

Kidnapper poster
NR

A series of kidnappings is occurring right under the authorities’ noses as they desperately pursue the culprits. Could the typewritten ransom note reveal the culprit?

Kidnapper

1955

Outlaw poster
NR

A young engineer and a pure-hearted mountain girl take on the challenges of the Akan primeval forest, where lawlessness and violence run rampant.

Outlaw

1953

I Love You poster
NR

A romantic story about a young medical student and a Japanese dancer who meet while watching a university ice hockey league game, and how they overcome various difficulties to be together.

I Love You

1956

Spark poster
NR

A heartbroken beauty has slipped into the ranks of the "Golden Horse" circus troupe. The circus's two star performers, vying for her affection, face off on a perilous trapeze, staking their love and friendship on the outcome.

Spark

1956

Dorei no machi poster
NR

Yosuke Machida of the Daito Shinpo hears from a boy named Toshi-bo, whom he found on the street, that Toshi-bo’s older sister, Toyo, was deceived by a man named Taichi Tachikawa and sold into prostitution in a red-light district. He then set foot in this district for the first time and met Michiko Kawabe, a female reporter known by the nickname “Yoshie.” After hearing various details about the situation from her, he learned that Toyo was at “Kotogawa.”

Dorei no machi

1951

Kanojo no tokudane poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kanojo no tokudane

1952

No artwork available
NR

So the million-yen lottery ticket I finally won turned out to be invalid, but what about the Boston bag full of a million yen that I found in the trash? The bizarre adventures of a cheerful office worker couple.

Genkin no negoto

1956

Where Might is Right poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Where Might is Right

1955

Okore Sanpei poster
NR

Sanpei, an innocent sailor with incredible strength, arrives in the big city teeming with social ills carrying a mysterious bag.

Okore Sanpei

1953

Dawn Chorus poster
NR

An innocent bus girl who gave up on getting into a women’s college and is now filled with new hope and the cheerful, slightly flirtatious young man who loves her, inside the car on a stormy night...

Dawn Chorus

1955

Hahabue kobue poster
NR

Taki dedicated her life to her daughter Miyoko, but they were separated by Taki's parents-in-law. Many years later, they reunite in a party, but Taki falls gravely ill with a long disease. During those years, Miyoki studies Medicine and will be finally able to help her mother.

Hahabue kobue

1955

Ma no hanayome ishō poster
NR

An ominous skull at a wedding venue; a series of chilling, mysterious incidents befalling a wealthy man whose heads of the family have gone missing on their wedding nights; and a mysterious white-haired demon driven mad by revenge!

Ma no hanayome ishō

1956

Ganbare! Kenta poster
NR

Kenta, an orphan, heads to Tokyo to find his father.

Ganbare! Kenta

1957

The Buried Treasure poster
NR

A lighthearted comedy featuring city dwellers flocking to a remote mountain hot spring inn, all entangled in the mystery of hidden gold bars.

The Buried Treasure

1956

Naki warai jigoku gokuraku poster
NR

A rakugo storyteller who makes people laugh falls in love with his master’s daughter.

Naki warai jigoku gokuraku

1955

Haha no mizūmi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Haha no mizūmi

1953

No artwork available
NR

A desperate detective on the trail of criminals who are holding a baby hostage and demanding one million yen

San akunin to akanbō

1950

Mashiroki Fuji no mine poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mashiroki Fuji no mine

1954

Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi poster
NR

A mystery story set on a haunted island: a student is murdered, followed by the suicide of his lover.

Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi

1952

Brother and Sister poster
6.3

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.

Brother and Sister

1953

Haha nami poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Haha nami

1953

Yobiko hoshi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yobiko hoshi

1952

Hida no ko tengu poster
NR

A passionate young man who lives for judo, the innocent girl he adores, and a challenge to the judo boss… A major match where love and life are on the line.

Hida no ko tengu

1951

No artwork available
NR

Seventeen years have passed since that ill-fated mother and daughter parted with tears in their eyes. The mother, unable to reveal her name, peered through the window at her daughter in her wedding gown, her eyes filled with tears.

Haha zukiyo

1951

No artwork available
NR

Twenty years after the father’s death and the mother and child’s separation, when they are reunited, a pistol aimed at the mother glints coldly in the child’s hand.

Kenjū no mae ni tatsu haha

1950

Lightning poster
7.3

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.

Lightning

1952

Haha tsubaki poster
NR

Kamezo, a manzai comedian, had been taking a break from performing while his partner Tsuruko was giving birth, but Tsuruko announced that she was retiring from the stage. That child was, in fact, the son of Takashi Yashiro, a politician with a promising future. Believing that a relationship between a politician and a female manzai comedian would bring unhappiness to Yashiro and his wife, Tsuruko changed her address and was even preparing to leave the stage. Tsuruko’s alcoholic father, having caught wind of this, snatched the child, Yoko, and squandered the small sum of money he had received from Yashiro on drinking.

Haha tsubaki

1950

Shinkon noroke bushi poster
NR

A comedy about newlyweds.

Shinkon noroke bushi

1953

Enoshima Elegy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Enoshima Elegy

1951

Escape Between Midnight and Dawn poster
NR

A yakuza man who dreads being released from prison, yet the day of his release arrives. Awaiting him are a woman’s burning gaze and the muzzle of a gangster’s gun…

Escape Between Midnight and Dawn

1950

The Story of Shunkin poster
6.3

Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.

The Story of Shunkin

1954

The Romance of Yushima poster
8.0

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been unable to tell Sakai of the marriage, aware as he is that Sakai wants him to marry his daughter, Taeko. Otsuta wants Hayase to tell Sakai about her, but understands the difficulty of his position. At a festival, Otsuta is mistaken for a pickpocket and taken to the police. Because of her background as a geisha, newspaper reporters eagerly delve into her past and report that she has been married to Hayase. Unaware of what has been printed in the papers, Hayase decides to tell Sakai about his marriage. Sakai shows the newspaper to him and orders Hayase to part with Otsuta. Given no chance to explain, Hayase accepts Sakai's order.

The Romance of Yushima

1955

1940s · 13 titles

There Was a Father poster
7.0

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

There Was a Father

1942

Chōchō shissō jiken poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chōchō shissō jiken

1947

The Quiet Duel poster
7.3

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats himself in secret and breaks off his engagement rather than risk his fiancée’s future, even as he confronts the irresponsible patient who infected him—testing his ethics, pride, and capacity for sacrifice.

The Quiet Duel

1949

Bibō no kaoyaku poster
NR

Ken Uehara plays the role of a prominent figure in the red-light district and portrays his violent personality.

Bibō no kaoyaku

1949

Omokage Sanshiro poster
NR

A judo movie.

Omokage Sanshiro

1949

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mother

1948

Haha kōbai poster
NR

The sincere, selfless love of a foolish mother for her daughter set against the backdrop of the circus.

Haha kōbai

1949

Sanmenkyō no kyōfu poster
NR

Romantic thriller film.

Sanmenkyō no kyōfu

1948

No artwork available
NR

A pure love story between a former member of the imperial family who has been demoted to commoner status and a young girl.

First Love Story

1947

Kenji to onnakanshu poster
NR

Deep down, a dark shadow always lingered in the heart of Ushio, a young prosecutor who had made a name for himself by cracking down on organized crime. In the bribery case involving his old college friend Ayao, he had sought a two-year prison sentence in accordance with the law. Ayao took his own life, and his family was torn apart by the world’s persecution.

Kenji to onnakanshu

1949

No artwork available
NR

A film depicting the duties of a detective and the anguish of human compassion.

Female Prisoner #36

1947

The Orion Constellation poster
NR

A unique tale of romance and action in which an escaped convict fights villains to save his comrade’s sister from danger, only to fall in battle.

The Orion Constellation

1948

No artwork available
NR

A former geisha marries a widowed farmer, but ends up running away to Tokyo after being unable to cope with the hardships of life in the countryside.

Full Moon

1949