Acting

Mitsuko Higashiyama

Acting credits

The Tree of Love poster
7.0

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run away to Kyoto, but her child suddenly became sick and she just missed the train and Kozo. She makes it to Kyoto finally, but is unable to meet him. Plus she isn't accepted into Kyoto society. She goes back to her hometown and tries to forget him. She quits the hospital to concentrate on her singing. She makes her professional debut with the hit "Aizen Katsura". Kozo is in the audience.

The Tree of Love

1938

Okinu and Banto poster
10.0

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

Okinu and Banto

1940

A Man's Recompense: Part 2 poster
NR

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with his childhood friend Michiko Kuwano, but his mother (Fumiko Okamura) is against her, so he gives up easily and ends up being married to Kinuyo Tanaka.

A Man's Recompense: Part 2

1937

A Man's Recompense: Part 1 poster
NR

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with his childhood friend Michiko Kuwano, but his mother (Fumiko Okamura) is against her, so he gives up easily and ends up being married to Kinuyo Tanaka.

A Man's Recompense: Part 1

1937

Kinuyo's First Love poster
7.5

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human relationships in a town of customs and manners.

Kinuyo's First Love

1940

Five Siblings poster
8.0

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors to restore its name and fortune

Five Siblings

1939

A Star Athlete poster
7.5

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute.

A Star Athlete

1937

Zoku aizen katsura poster
8.0

1939 Japanese movie

Zoku aizen katsura

1939

Lady Doctor Kinuyo poster
5.5

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is ancestral. Although Kinuyo and Yasuo love each other, they have different thoughts toward treatments.

Lady Doctor Kinuyo

1937

Nobuko poster
6.2

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

Nobuko

1940

The Lights of Asakusa poster
6.0

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.

The Lights of Asakusa

1937

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6.0

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive lace handkerchief.

Don't Tell Your Wife About It

1937

Hotaru no hikari poster
NR

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their student life.

Hotaru no hikari

1938

Torrent of a Big City poster
NR

A young yakuza student is led back to the straight and narrow path by his uncle.

Torrent of a Big City

1940