Daisuke Inoue

Acting

Daisuke Inoue

Born — Died

1935-05-20 — 1977-08-12

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Known for

Ultra Q poster
8.0

As supernatural events and monster attacks rock Japan, the military and government look to be overwhelmed. Three intrepid young investigators—two pilots and a reporter—take it upon themselves to study these unexplained phenomena in order to inform and protect the public.

Ultra Q

1966

The Idiot poster
7.0

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.

The Idiot

1951

Happiness of Us Alone poster
9.0

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.

Happiness of Us Alone

1961

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl poster
9.0

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

1952

Ironfinger poster
6.8

A silly yet skilled Interpol agent flies to Tokyo and gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning the favor of a notorious arms dealer.

Ironfinger

1965

Husband and Wife poster
6.9

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.

Husband and Wife

1953

Film credits

1960s · 13 titles

1950s · 38 titles

The Idiot poster
7.0

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.

The Idiot

1951

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl poster
9.0

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

1952

Husband and Wife poster
6.9

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.

Husband and Wife

1953

Mashiroki Fuji no mine poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mashiroki Fuji no mine

1954

Youth on Top of the Hill poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Youth on Top of the Hill

1959

A Girl Who Delivers Happiness poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Girl Who Delivers Happiness

1955

Tokyo Sweetheart poster
8.0

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.

Tokyo Sweetheart

1952

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre poster
10.0

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful.

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre

1951

Sunflower Girl poster
10.0

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When the women go on strike over the issue, Setsuko finds herself caught in the middle. When the heir to the company, Ryosuke Tanabe, proposes marriage to Setsuko, she is honored, but realizes that her real affection is for Hitachi.

Sunflower Girl

1953

Frame of Snow poster
10.0

During a winter visit to her grandfather’s mountain home, a young saleswoman becomes entangled in love and jealousy among visiting skiers. After heartbreak and tragedy in the snow, she departs renewed, ready to begin again.

Frame of Snow

1955

A Brother and His Sister poster
8.0

In a household of three the husband is a salaryman who lives with his younger sister and wife in Tokyo. He is returning home late in the evenings because he plays go, or a Japanese version of chess, with his boss. The wife and sister are unhappy about this. The man's co-worker advises him to stop the late evenings out with the boss, but the man cares less. His sister works at a foreign firm and speaks English. When a man who had earlier visited her workplace returns and asks her out for dinner, she rejects him by lying about a husband. He had made impolite comments about her in English during his earlier visit not realizing she understands him.

A Brother and His Sister

1956

The Naked General poster
7.0

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

The Naked General

1958

How the Bell of Liberty Rings poster
NR

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English. Despite facing opposition from his family and nationalist factions, he founds Keio University, becoming a key figure in Japan's modernization amid political turmoil.

How the Bell of Liberty Rings

1954

All Sold Out poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

All Sold Out

1956

Zoku santō jūyaku poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zoku santō jūyaku

1952

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen poster
9.0

Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

1957

Song for a Bride poster
10.0

An Ishiro Honda film.

Song for a Bride

1958

Mr. Lucky poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mr. Lucky

1952

No artwork available
NR

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

Beyond the Hills

1950

Saijoke no kyoen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Saijoke no kyoen

1951

The President Talks Bank poster
NR

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

The President Talks Bank

1956

Jacks and Jills poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jacks and Jills

1956

The President's Boss poster
8.0

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

The President's Boss

1956

A Guide to Marriage poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Guide to Marriage

1952

Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker poster
10.0

1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.

Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker

1953

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wakôdo no uta

1951

Gojūen yokochō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gojūen yokochō

1955

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Young Eyes

1954

Moth Lamp poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Moth Lamp

1953

Four Asakusa Sisters poster
NR

Love stories of four sisters from a small restaurant in Asakusa.

Four Asakusa Sisters

1952

I Love You poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I Love You

1959

乾杯!女学生 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

乾杯!女学生

1954

Three Brides for Three Sons poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Three Brides for Three Sons

1955

Third Class Executives poster
7.0

1950s Japanese comedy.

Third Class Executives

1952

Young Tree poster
8.0

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.

Young Tree

1956

The Beauty Expert poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Beauty Expert

1957

No artwork available
10.0

The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her.

Life of Geisha

1955

Lovetide poster
8.0

An Ishiro Honda film.

Lovetide

1955

Series credits