Masami Morikawa

Acting

Masami Morikawa

Born

1918-12-06 (107)

Known for

Acting

Credits

30 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 9 titles

1940s · 9 titles

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family poster
6.9

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

1941

A Certain Woman poster
7.0

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige meets her old love ten years later, she is able to forgive him and even thank him for the path her life has taken.

A Certain Woman

1942

Here's to the Young Lady poster
6.8

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

Here's to the Young Lady

1949

Nobuko poster
6.2

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

Nobuko

1940

Flowers of Patriotism poster
NR

A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Flowers of Patriotism

1942

Record of a Woman Doctor poster
6.0

A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free medical care to villagers. There they must battle prejudice and superstition as much as disease.

Record of a Woman Doctor

1941

Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume poster
NR

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Third installment of a wartime film trilogy.

Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume

1949

Kateikyōshi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kateikyōshi

1940

The Flower is not False poster
4.5

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu Hiroshi and penned films for Shimazu Yasujiro. In this early effort, he is not stylistically very far from either, but then again all Shochiku directors resemble each other to a point. The film is an everyday romance for younger audiences, full of clean, ideal human beings.

The Flower is not False

1941

1930s · 12 titles

The New Road: Akemi poster
8.5

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told from the perspective of Akemi.

The New Road: Akemi

1936

The Trio's Engagements poster
7.0

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

The Trio's Engagements

1937

Lovers' Duet poster
7.0

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

Lovers' Duet

1939

Zoku aizen katsura poster
8.0

1939 Japanese movie

Zoku aizen katsura

1939

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

Warm Current poster
5.2

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.

Warm Current

1939

Women at War poster
NR

Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to make a film about her. She was scouted to become an actress, but she held strong. Around that time, her adoptive father dies, and at the time of his death, she learns that her real father was a man of high rank.

Women at War

1939

New Woman Question and Answer poster
6.0

Jie attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko, one of the seven best friends from the same women's college, is getting married. The man she's marrying is her sister's lover.

New Woman Question and Answer

1939

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

Forget Love for Now poster
7.0

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.

Forget Love for Now

1937

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Daini no shuppatsu

1939