Acting
Sumie Tsubaki
Acting credits
Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
Ichiyo Higuchi
1939
5.0This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan's military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.
Shanghai Landing Party
1939
10.0In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers around them strike for better conditions. As their conservative father opposes their activism, his own dismissal forces him to confront the realities of class struggle and join their fight for a fairer future. Now considered a lost film, Those Who Make Tomorrow was produced by Toho to promote unionization during Japan’s Allied Occupation.
Those Who Make Tomorrow
1946
10.0Story of a bandit king part 2.
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn
1937
6.7A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The fourth eldest is soon to graduate and follow in their footsteps, though he'd rather continue schooling. The eldest finally decides to break free and set out on his own against his parents' wishes, with the support and sympathy of his siblings.
The Whole Family Works
1939
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Paradise of the Virgin Flowers
1936
NRThe story is based on the life of a poet who lived in Japan in the Taisho era. When her fiancé is arrested she believes he has suddenly disappeared and that he has abandoned her. She faces a dilemma. Despite her family being of a high class, they do not have money, which means she has to get married to someone who does. This drives her to marriage with an older man whose sole affection is directed at her looks and outside. Then she meets her freed fiancé.
Beauty
1946
NR1940 Japanese movie
明朗五人男
1940
This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl’s family.
The Brick Factory Girl
1946
8.0Story of a bandit king.
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf
1937
7.0One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version
The Beautiful Hawk
1937
8.0Film adaptation of the hit song
Tokyo Rhapsody
1936
10.0Enoken plays a cloistered rich kid whose father hires a disreputable tutor to teach him how to really be a millionaire: by drunken debauchery, women, and song.
Enoken’s Ten Millions
1936
NRA Japanese-speaking family in occupied Korea deal with the war.
Straits of Chosun
1943
NRThe film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.
Blizzard Ronin
1939