Acting

Tomoko Fumino

Born 1923-01-05 · Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan

Acting credits

A Thousand and One Nights poster
6.7

Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.

A Thousand and One Nights

1969

An Inlet of Muddy Water poster
6.3

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself in.

An Inlet of Muddy Water

1953

Take Care, Red Riding Hood poster
6.2

A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself.

Take Care, Red Riding Hood

1970

Fighting Against The Incurable Disease Aplastic Anemia – Now You Are In The Light poster
NR

Film distributed by ATG.

Fighting Against The Incurable Disease Aplastic Anemia – Now You Are In The Light

1978

Stakeout poster
7.1

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

Stakeout

1958

Marriage Counselor Tora-san poster
8.0

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.

Marriage Counselor Tora-san

1984

Modern People poster
4.0

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subordinate skillfully conceals the corruption and joins the corrupt, shady relationship.

Modern People

1952

A Wanderer's Notebook poster
7.2

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

A Wanderer's Notebook

1962

牝犬脱走 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

牝犬脱走

1965

Main Line to Terror poster
6.2

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.

Main Line to Terror

1975

No artwork available
NR

A state-sponsored film featuring singers who embodied the joys of rural life.

The Sky Is Blue

1943

New Snow poster
8.0

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to him. Kayo, a strong-willed doctor, is also attracted to him. A mediator tries to arrange a marriage but just at that point Minowada receives military call-up papers.

New Snow

1942

Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia poster
NR

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia

1953

Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made

1955

Pilgrimage at Night poster
NR

When he was a little boy, Tokitō Kensaku was sent to live with his paternal grandfather and his mistress Oei. Years later, Kensaku realizes he has feelings for Oei.

Pilgrimage at Night

1959

Mr. Mutsugoro’s Happy Marriage poster
NR

1974 Japanese movie

Mr. Mutsugoro’s Happy Marriage

1974

When Love Awakens poster
NR

Drama about an adolescent girl. Remake of Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

When Love Awakens

1969

Wicked Nun poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wicked Nun

1971

Here It is Quiet poster
NR

A youth film set in a high school.

Here It is Quiet

1956

Hakuchô no uta nanka kikoenai poster
8.0

Young man and woman experience changes in their worldview and question the meaning of life after meeting a dying grandfather.

Hakuchô no uta nanka kikoenai

1972

Nightingale poster
10.0

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

Nightingale

1938

Yassamossa poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yassamossa

1953

Kaihei shi-gō seito poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kaihei shi-gō seito

1971