Acting

Santa Ariki

Known for

Acting

Credits

34 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 10 titles

1950s · 23 titles

Family Affairs: The Book of Good Evenings poster
NR

Tonii is an aspiring world-class inventor who has sold off his parents’ estate and mansion and was now continuing his research in a shed tucked away in a corner of the spacious garden. Because a deafening roar echoed from inside the shed every day, the current owner of the estate, the wealthy Ginzo Kaneda, demanded that he vacate the premises.

Family Affairs: The Book of Good Evenings

1954

The Surprising Legend of Jirocho: Jirocho's Family Feud poster
NR

The third of four "The Surprising Legend of Jirocho" films.

The Surprising Legend of Jirocho: Jirocho's Family Feud

1957

Utau yajikita kogane dōchū poster
NR

1957 Japanese movie

Utau yajikita kogane dōchū

1957

Cheerful Detective poster
NR

After graduating from detective school, Achao and Entaro received their certificates and launched a private detective agency. One night, while investigating Otoyo, the wife of a soba shop owner, the two went to the basement of a theater and unexpectedly stumbled upon the murder of model Ranko Nemoto. Using the earring she was wearing as a clue, they began their investigation.

Cheerful Detective

1954

Family Affairs: Book of Necho Rinkon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Family Affairs: Book of Necho Rinkon

1954

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

Lil's Return from Shanghai poster
7.5

In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and tries to recreate the world he knew then.

Lil's Return from Shanghai

1952

恐妻時代 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

恐妻時代

1952

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

Story of Second Class Private, Sequel poster
NR

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Story of Second Class Private, Sequel

1956

Sazae-san poster
7.5

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

Sazae-san

1956

A Young Lady on Her Way poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Young Lady on Her Way

1956

Cheers to the Jazz Girl poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cheers to the Jazz Girl

1955

Tokyo Bus Girl poster
8.0

1958 Japanese movie

Tokyo Bus Girl

1958

Quick Change Tanuki Palace poster
7.0

This is a paradise of dream and illusion, a country of Raccoon Dogs. The Bat Tribe lives in a neighboring country took a young prince of Raccoon Dogs as a hostage, and try to take a Buddhist saint from the temple by force.

Quick Change Tanuki Palace

1954

大当り男一代 poster
NR

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the maid Oyasu. Shinzō and Oyasu set up a household near a soba shop in Fukagawa, but Shinzō struggled financially, turning to gambling and fighting, while Oyasu worked as a tea server in a theater, constantly harassed by a small-time gangster, Rikichi, for cigarette money. The only ones concerned about Shinzō and Oyasu were Shinzō’s sister, Omitu, and her dance teacher, Oyoshi. Later, Shinzō managed to get a job at another lumber dealer, but after a conflict with the detective Hansuke, who was also infatuated with Oyasu, Shinzō accidentally dropped lumber into the river and was fired. Unaware that Oyasu had borrowed money from a bar to repay the lumber dealer, Shinzō left to earn money in the Mito clan's crew quarters and ended up rescuing Rikichi from a dice game trouble.

大当り男一代

1956

大江戸出世双六 poster
NR

Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the maid Onatsu from punishment after she accidentally broke a plate gifted by Lord Ieyasu. Tired of the strict samurai service, Tasuke moved to the Genbei tenements and opened a fish shop. This tenement housed various characters, including the landlord's daughter Osen who had a crush on Tasuke, the midwife Okan, the blind masseur Oyone and her husband, the carpenter-loving couple Yoshigorō and Ohama, the rōnin Takeuchi Yogoemon, and the siblings Ochika and Shin'nosuke who cared for their sick mother.

大江戸出世双六

1955

Blue Sky Angel poster
8.0

1950 drama film

Blue Sky Angel

1950

続二等兵物語 南方孤島の巻 poster
NR

Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

続二等兵物語 南方孤島の巻

1956

花笠太鼓 poster
NR

In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tenement with his blind mother Okura. He works as a delivery boy for the caterer "Yaoyorozu." His brother, Chōjirō, who disliked being a plasterer, ran away from home and became a subordinate of the yakuza Yamashita no Gonsuke. On a delivery, Sanshirō catches a vagrant child, Erippē, stealing a flower hairpin from Ochiyo, the daughter of the wealthy merchant Narumiyaya Bunzaimon. Impressed by Sanshirō's character, Bunzaimon considers him as a potential son-in-law for Ochiyo, who admires Sanshirō.

花笠太鼓

1956

I Was a Prisoner in Siberia poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

I Was a Prisoner in Siberia

1952

Private Second Class poster
NR

First film in a series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku.

Private Second Class

1955

Town of Seven Colors poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Town of Seven Colors

1952