Acting
Santa Ariki
Acting credits
7.0This 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
NRHachigoro, 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
NRA crime film released in 1965
The Hoodlum Brothers
1965
NRSoemon, 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Gang's Upward Strategy
1965
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Fangs of Vengeance
1965
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Young Lady on Her Way
1956
6.1No synopsis available yet.
Main Street in the Underworld
1964
7.5An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
Sazae-san
1956
7.0Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.
Get 'em All
1960
NRAfter 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
NRShinzō, 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
NR1962 Japanese movie
Pig and Goldfish
1962
NRTonii 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cheers to the Jazz Girl
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
恐妻時代
1952
8.01958 Japanese movie
Tokyo Bus Girl
1958
8.01950 drama film
Blue Sky Angel
1950
NRIsshin 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
NRThe golden duo of Yukio Hashi and Chieko Baisho. A film rich in a variety of songs, dances and falling in love to the rhythm of Yukio Hashi's song of the same name.
The Sun of Love and Tears
1966
NR1954 japanese film.
Family Affairs — Book of Necho Rinkon
1954
NRSecond sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
続二等兵物語 南方孤島の巻
1956
NRFirst sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Story of Second Class Private, Sequel
1956
NRFirst film in a series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku.
Private Second Class
1955