
Acting
Yoshiko Hirose
Acting credits
8.0A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.
Jirocho, the Hunted
1953
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.
Jirocho's New Year
1954
6.9A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Husband and Wife
1953
8.0Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Forty-Eight Man
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mako Osorubeshi
1954
7.5The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life.
The Blue Pearl
1951
9.0Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
The Red Light Military Base
1953
6.4The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.
Dancing Girl
1951
6.6Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.
Vendetta of a Samurai
1952
NRA film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Duel in the Sun
1950
6.5A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the crowded streets of Ginza.
Tokyo Profile
1953
8.0A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
Last of the Wild Ones
1954
NRPeriod film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
An Edoite Judge
1953
6.3A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until they have fulfilled their duty of hunting down and killing Tomonojo.
Okuni and Gohei
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Burning Youth
1954
7.0A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the clinic lying dormant the doctor's wife rents the premises to her husband's underling. This is a man who does not accept payment from the poor. The woman, in the meantime, works at a restaurant whose owner being ill has given her additional duties. Her younger sister is an unmarried finance writer who also lives with them. It is both sisters, however, who receive marriage proposals.
White Fish
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Zoku santō jūyaku
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Town of Seven Colors
1952
No synopsis available yet.
A Young Couple Oversleeps
1954
7.0The rise of the famed gambler.
Jirocho Rises in Fame
1952