Keiko Tsushima

Acting

Keiko Tsushima

Born — Died

1926-02-07 — 2012-08-01

Place of birth

Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Keiko Tsushima (津島 恵子 Tsushima Keiko, 7 February 1926 – 1 August 2012) was a Japanese actress, whose real name was Naoko Mori (森 直子 Mori Naoko). She was notable for her prominent role in Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai. She also starred in Japanese television series such as Sakura and Kimi ga Jinsei no Toki.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 3 titles

1970s · 8 titles

Theater of Life poster
10.0

Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku.

Theater of Life

1972

Waga seishun no eleven poster
NR

Soccer movie.

Waga seishun no eleven

1979

Love and Separation in Sri Lanka poster
10.0

A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an estranged son in Japan.

Love and Separation in Sri Lanka

1976

The Japan Derby Race poster
7.0

A story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing.

The Japan Derby Race

1970

Morning for Two poster
8.0

While Keisuke and Jiro were brothers, the characters of the two were opposite. My older brother Keisuke was a sophomore college graduate, a honest and passionate young man, but his brother Jiro was only a student of a ronin who failed in taking the university and was playing. Such two people had a dream. Keisuke traveled wandering at his own trailer house, Jiro became a racer, had a dream of surrounding the world.

Morning for Two

1971

Teardrops poster
NR

A sentimental drama about aspiring artist, Eiji, who rescues a blind girl. His friends Goro and Minoru and the blind girl's sister Kazue are a happy group until Goro steals money from Kazue's purse. Goro is arrested and his friends start bothering Eiji. To escape their harassment he changes jobs. But then he becomes the victim of an unexpected accident.

Teardrops

1973

The Surf poster
6.7

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue's father forbids her to see Shinji. But when the boy saves the passengers on a boat owned by Hatsue's father, his luck in love begins to change.

The Surf

1975

Order of the Salaryman poster
NR

A salaryman promoted against his will skips his first morning meeting and slips into a spiral of small rebellions—cafés, nightclubs, and a fleeting romance—while rejecting the rigid “medals” of corporate success. Torn between family and freedom, he plots a staged disappearance to reclaim a late-coming youth, in a bittersweet drama underscored by the haunting refrain of “Akita Ondo.”

Order of the Salaryman

1973

1960s · 3 titles

1950s · 38 titles

Seven Samurai poster
8.5

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Seven Samurai

1954

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice poster
7.5

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

1952

Love is Different and Delicious poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Love is Different and Delicious

1958

Twilight Saloon poster
8.0

Inside a bustling postwar Tokyo beer hall, a diverse group of patrons, performers, and workers spend a single evening navigating their personal frustrations and social anxieties. A disillusioned professor, a struggling artist, and various laborers find their lives intersecting through chance encounters and heated arguments fueled by drink.

Twilight Saloon

1955

Cape Ashizuri poster
9.0

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student activist disenchanted by the increasingly hawkish state of Japanese society.

Cape Ashizuri

1954

Affair Trip poster
NR

Based on the story "Uwaki no tabi" ("Affair Journey") by Keita Genji.

Affair Trip

1956

Kunisada Chūji poster
9.0

Kunisada Tadaharu, a peasant of Kunisada Village in Joshu Sai County, could not stand the bad government and poor harvest of Takebe Genhan, the governor of the time. entered the world of As he played more and more games at the gambling hall, he became feared as "Chuji the gambling robber", and became a boss who had a share of Inui such as Nikko's Enzo and Shimizu's Kentetsu. However, due to a disagreement, he killed his benefactor Isaburo Boss, and was abandoned by Yasugoro and was chased. However, Chuji cleverly took advantage of the peasant uprising, shut himself up on Mt. Akagi, opened a gambling hall, and was touted as the greatest boss in the Kanto region. The magistrate, who learned of the close relationship between the peasants and Chuji, finally arranged for Chuji to go on a trip. Chuji, who doesn't know that he was weighed, gleefully descends the mountain, but...

Kunisada Chūji

1954

Tower of Lilies poster
6.8

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.

Tower of Lilies

1953

The Bells of Nagasaki poster
7.0

The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

The Bells of Nagasaki

1950

Fireworks Over the Sea poster
5.4

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Fireworks Over the Sea

1951

Fancy Talker poster
NR

Comedy about a car salesman delivering a late model station wagon from Tokyo to Izumo to a representative of the Japanese Diet, who plans to use the car in a bribe.

Fancy Talker

1958

Floating Weeds Diary poster
4.3

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins, however, a miners' strike is announced, creating an uproar. In addition, the players find they have been cheated out of their profits by a crooked impresario.

Floating Weeds Diary

1955

Sisters poster
NR

Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji), and the third was Mihato (Hibari Misora). Mihato was still a pretty seventeen-year-old girl, but she considered herself as mature as her older sisters. Mihato knows that Tsugumi is friends with Ippei Yaguchi (Masao Wakahara) and acts as a love messenger between them, but she didn't know that Takako is also in love with Ippei...

Sisters

1953

Good Luck to These Two poster
8.0

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

Good Luck to These Two

1957

Will-o'-the-Wisp poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Will-o'-the-Wisp

1956

Pure White Nights poster
NR

"Pure White Nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology of their marriage with elegant and a controversial touch. Love, art and suffering until the tragic and absurd ending.

Pure White Nights

1951

Hanran poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hanran

1954

12 Chapters About Women poster
7.0

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result of his promotion, but just then, a big change occurs in Minako's body..

12 Chapters About Women

1954

Dotanba poster
6.0

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.

Dotanba

1956

Wedding Day poster
7.0

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as a writer and Sakie, his daughter, finding a suitable match, while the family is struggling with the losses of war.

Wedding Day

1956

Talkative Company President poster
9.0

A former company man turned drifter is pulled back to lead a struggling toy company, enforcing bold reforms that shake up its corporate culture. Just as success arrives, he quietly walks away, leaving a changed company behind.

Talkative Company President

1957

The Valley Between Love and Death poster
8.0

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

The Valley Between Love and Death

1954

The Hotelman's Holiday poster
9.0

Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

The Hotelman's Holiday

1958

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2) poster
8.0

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)

1957

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

1955

The Waves poster
5.5

Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.

The Waves

1952

The Woman’s Reflective Pool poster
NR

Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in charge, but fails. His daughter Naeko (Takamine) finds out and takes on the role herself. This is a love romance adapted from an original story by Seiichi Funabashi that appeared in the magazine "Romance.”

The Woman’s Reflective Pool

1951

No artwork available
6.0

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)

1956

Yukiko poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yukiko

1955

Utsukushiki taka poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Utsukushiki taka

1954

Where's Paradise? poster
8.0

Japanese drama.

Where's Paradise?

1956

Homecoming poster
8.0

A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his daughter.

Homecoming

1950

I Saw the Killer poster
NR

A man running a small radio repair shop becomes a key witness in a murder case.

I Saw the Killer

1956

Sincere Heart poster
6.5

A young student falls for an invalid girl, whom he can only see from afar.

Sincere Heart

1953

The Black Current poster
10.0

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Akiyama JNR president was found dead.

The Black Current

1954

Devil’s Statue poster
8.0

A gallant swordsman takes on the forces of evil with the help of his trusty friends.

Devil’s Statue

1952

The Good-Natured Couple poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Good-Natured Couple

1956

Hiroba no kōdoku poster
NR

Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta

Hiroba no kōdoku

1953

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