
Acting
Hikaru Hoshi
Born 1907-10-26
Acting credits
10.0A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
Life of Matsu the Untamed
1965
No synopsis available yet.
Gendai shojo
1953
7.5A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.
Floating Weeds
1959
6.4Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.
Gamera vs. Barugon
1966
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Haha no mizūmi
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Asakusa monogatari
1953
7.1Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
Her Brother
1960
NRTwo barbers have fallen for each other, but their fathers are both stubborn, and, on top of that, they’re old rivals from the past.
Tokoharu jamono
1953
7.6In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
Fires on the Plain
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
New Enoshima Elegy
1953
NRSanpei, an innocent sailor with incredible strength, arrives in the big city teeming with social ills carrying a mysterious bag.
Okore Sanpei
1953
NRA 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
9.0A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kill him.
The Lowest Man
1958
10.0Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He considers them all old enough to handle the money, and gives them a free hand to use it as they wish.
Their Legacy
1962
7.3On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.
Seisaku's Wife
1965
No synopsis available yet.
Honoo no hada
1951
6.4The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
A Woman's Testament
1960
NRA blind little girl searches for her mother.
Haha no hitomi
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Shunsetsu no mon
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Zoku bakurō ichidai
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hahakozuru
1952
Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura, who owned a jade ring. If he failed to fulfill this condition, the inheritance would go to Chigusa instead.
Byakuran kōran
1952
NRIn 1945, in a Shanghai filled with a palpable sense of unease as the war was still raging, Atsuko Kijima and Ryuji Kudo fell in love and exchanged promises of marriage. Ryuji was deployed shortly thereafter, and after the war ended, he was taken to Siberia as a prisoner of war. Atsuko, who had returned to Tokyo, clung to the promise she had made with Ryuji—that if he were safe, he would “come to the garden of St. Nicholas Cathedral at noon on Christmas Day.” Relying on that promise, she went to St. Nicholas Cathedral at noon on Christmas Day in both 1946 and 1947, but Ryuji never appeared.
Tokyo Elegy
1951
6.3A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.
Odd Obsession
1959