
Acting
Harue Wakahara
Born 1919-05-14
Acting credits
6.0Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is.
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: Heiji Covers All of Edo
1949
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Wings of Victory
1942
NRA romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.
Red Peony of Night
1950
8.5Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.
The Cannery Boat
1953
9.0In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is finding the task overwhelming as it is hard work with practical lessons and classroom components. His wife has died, but he has three daughters with the oldest taking care of her younger siblings.
Story of Leadership
1941
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
1939
Prosecutor Ishigami, who had stepped forward to protect the citizens from the Murata family, the town’s power brokers, found himself assigned to a case involving Kenichi Tagami, a relative of the Muratas, who had resorted to extortion to save his sister, Ayako. While sympathizing with Kenichi’s concern for his sister, Ishigami steeled his resolve to tackle the case head-on in order to root out the town’s power brokers.
A Woman Who Convicts Men
1948
This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip" is an 80-minute compilation of the first (東海道の巻 or "Tokaido no maki") and second (日本晴れの巻 or "Japan's Fine Weather Reel") parts (147 minutes), which were re-edited and screened at a time when presentable films were dried up immediately after the defeat of the war.
Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip
1938
7.0A 1943 film.
音楽大進軍
1943
Adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s story.
Family Diary Part II
1938
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Exploits of Heisuke Isokawa
1942
NRA family comprised of a father, mother and three sisters lives in a posh area. The father is a doctor who has to join the army and work at war. The four remaining women have to take care of themselves. The eldest sister is calm and lady-like. The middle sister (played by Hara Setsuko), in contrast, is active and contemporary. She aspires to be a physician too. The story is based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
The Sisters' Agreement
1940
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kekkon Sanjûshi
1949
Adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya's story.
Family Diary Part I
1938
Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in which Yaji and Kita, two plebeian nobodies, have all sorts of strange and colorful encounters on the long road from Edo to Kyoto.
Enoken's Yaji and Kita
1939
NRThe film centres around junior high school students. They are members of the school's baseball team. They are very good. Izawa's father asks him to stop playing prior to an important game. Hayasaki health deteriorates at this time and he becomes absent. The team decides to speak to Izawa's father to plead their case and ask for the return of their team member.
Throwing the Soul Away
1935
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kōruisō
1951
9.0Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.
Hideko the Cheerleader
1940
NRThe Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas Carol”. A neighborhood loan shark is hounded by his relatives expecting big inheritance. But he is not giving any favor to anyone. His only joy of life is to go on junk hunt in the neighborhood, collecting garbages and scraps and selling them to junkmen to make profit.
The Old Man of the Propeller
1939