Acting

Hideko Ebata

Acting credits

Floating Clouds poster
7.7

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

Floating Clouds

1955

New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller poster
9.0

World Electric's top ad model disappears, throwing the company into disarray. A fortune-teller’s influence spreads through upper management, sending staff on a misguided search. Misinformation, internal friction, and unexpected revelations push the company to its limits.

New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller

1960

Flowing poster
7.2

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portrays the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

Flowing

1956

Wife poster
7.2

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.

Wife

1953

A Long, Comic Story — Houses at the Summer Festival poster
NR

Hachigoro, a carpenter living in the Rakugo Tenement, is an honest and skilled craftsman, but he loves sake more than his three daily meals, and had even been barred from entering the Akasaiya shop where he worked. However, thanks to the intervention of the landlord he was fortunately allowed back in, and Oka, the landlord’s maid who had long harbored feelings for Hachigoro, sent him a celebratory kimono as a gift.

A Long, Comic Story — Houses at the Summer Festival

1954

Daughters, Wives and a Mother poster
7.3

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

1960

A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime poster
NR

Soemon, the master of Gidayū-style madcap performances, has gathered the entire tenement block again tonight and is tormenting everyone with his terrible Gidayū singing.

A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime

1954

Housewives Are Suing poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Housewives Are Suing

1956

The Doom of Night poster
NR

Story of an ex-sailor, caught up in a murder mystery involving gold dust buried in Manchuria, while romancing a woman whose father may be the center of the intrigue.

The Doom of Night

Till We Meet Again poster
6.7

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

Till We Meet Again

1950

Shimizu Port Salaryman poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Shimizu Port Salaryman

1962

Farewell Rabaul poster
8.1

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little regard for life. Seeking the companionship of any woman who will have them, they spend their days indulging in every fantasy in order to escape the overwhelming fear of death looming just over the horizon.

Farewell Rabaul

1954

New Third Class Executive: Husband Education poster
8.0

Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with an academic over a business heir.

New Third Class Executive: Husband Education

1960

Our Failures poster
NR

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.

Our Failures

1962

Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success poster
NR

A beer salesman with a passion for fishmongering stumbles through mishaps, rivalries, and gangster trouble while chasing a big contract, winning the deal through quick thinking—then turns down a promotion to keep working his own way.

Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success

1960

First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff poster
7.0

After a major corporate merger, a middle-aged executive is demoted but unexpectedly appointed president of a small subsidiary.

First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff

1971

The Terrible Game poster
7.0

Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with the daughter of a wealthy trading company president.

The Terrible Game

1959

3 Gents In Hawaii poster
8.0

Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but become entangled in romantic distractions and miscommunication. By the time they act, the property is lost to a rival, forcing an abrupt return to Tokyo and uncertain outcomes.

3 Gents In Hawaii

1963

Newlywed of the First Section poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Newlywed of the First Section

1956

Hateful Things poster
NR

The story follows a humble merchant from Tohoku who travels to Tokyo to fulfill his dream of buying goods directly from wholesalers. During his stay, he experiences some of the happiest days with his daughter, only to be confronted with harsh realities that test family bonds, honor, and human frailty.

Hateful Things

1957

Awamori-kun kanpai! poster
NR

Second of the three Awamori-kun movies.

Awamori-kun kanpai!

1961

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I Am a Medical Examiner

1964

New Third-Class Executive poster
8.0

At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide when the boss is away. As tensions rise around a meddling heiress and a collapsing business deal, one quiet employee steps up to set things right.

New Third-Class Executive

1959