Acting
Eiran Yoshikawa
Born
1904-08-22 (122)
Place of birth
Yanagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Known for
NRAs the show begins, the stage starts to rotate, and popular stars are murdered one after another—is it a random killing spree or a premeditated crime? A unique thriller that will have you laughing and shivering at the same time.
Ikinokotta benten-sama
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Haha no mizūmi
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rakka no mon
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kanojo no tokudane
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Koi no yakyūken: Kōiu guai ni shiyashi yanse
1955
NRA moving story depicting the spirit of a young marathon runner who set a new world record in Boston, encouraged by the love of his family, a young woman’s prayers, and warm friendship.
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954
Film credits
1960s · 6 titles
NRMr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quality problems and wins a big ramen contract with a large Chinese company.
Tales of President Mito
1962
7.4Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of political corruption, hypocrisy, and journalistic cowardice in postwar Japan.
The Challenge
1962
8.0Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.
The Second Bullet is Marked
1960
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tokyo's Business District
1962
10.0A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961
NR1961 Japanese movie
Akai kage no otoko
1961
1950s · 31 titles
NRAs the show begins, the stage starts to rotate, and popular stars are murdered one after another—is it a random killing spree or a premeditated crime? A unique thriller that will have you laughing and shivering at the same time.
Ikinokotta benten-sama
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Haha no mizūmi
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rakka no mon
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kanojo no tokudane
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Koi no yakyūken: Kōiu guai ni shiyashi yanse
1955
NRA moving story depicting the spirit of a young marathon runner who set a new world record in Boston, encouraged by the love of his family, a young woman’s prayers, and warm friendship.
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954
NRA man and a woman whose love is forbidden due to a feud between their parents resolve to die together and head to the island of Sado.
Atarashiki ten
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Machi no kotengu
1952
No synopsis available yet.
Kinseimei shōbu monogatari: Kettō
1953
NRAfter discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime scene. As a result, they found a wallet with bloodstains that seemed to belong to the victim, a woman's wallet that did not fit the field, earrings, and other valuable materials, which led them on a foot search. The woman's purse had been picked up by a male prostitute on the subway, and from the prostitute's testimony, they were able to identify the pickpocket's face, but the next day, the man was found dead in a road accident, apparently murdered.
Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
1957
NRA melodrama centered on adolescent high school students that depicts the secrets and joys and sorrows known only to them.
Teenage Secrets
1954
NRThe fifth installment of the Metropolitan Police Department story series. This time, detectives from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division are once again in action, full of thrills and speed, in pursuit of the perpetrator of a mysterious murder that suddenly occurred at an auto race track.
Police Precinct Part 5
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Musume hatsukoi yatton-bushi
1952
NRAs she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her is… A coming-of-age story of laughter and tears that unfolds at this all-girls’ school, revolving around a rookie teacher.
Miss Teacher
1955
NRA passionate young man who lives for judo, the innocent girl he adores, and a challenge to the judo boss… A major match where love and life are on the line.
Hida no ko tengu
1951
Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura, who owned a jade ring. If he failed to fulfill this condition, the inheritance would go to Chigusa instead.
Byakuran kōran
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Haha nami
1953
NRThere are male and female students working part-time jobs in the city center while facing the harsh realities of society as they struggle to pay for tuition and living expenses, and there are those who prey on these students. The Sugita-gumi, which was supposed to have been disbanded under the Ordinance on the Regulation of Organizations, established the “Student Part-Time Workers’ Association” and began ensnaring innocent students in its clutches. Eguchi of the student newspaper editorial board and his fellow staff members begin an investigation to expose the Sugita-gumi’s misdeeds.
Gunrō no machi
1952
NRTwo barbers have fallen for each other, but their fathers are both stubborn, and, on top of that, they’re old rivals from the past.
Tokoharu jamono
1953
Seventeen years have passed since that ill-fated mother and daughter parted with tears in their eyes. The mother, unable to reveal her name, peered through the window at her daughter in her wedding gown, her eyes filled with tears.
Haha zukiyo
1951
8.0Futari no hitomi (二人の瞳, Futari no hitomi, The Eyes of Two People) a.k.a. Girls Hand in Hand (USA title) is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Shigeo Nakaki.
The Eyes of Two People
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Zoku bakurō ichidai
1952
NRThe film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where students curse and gamble. The school has a pond on-premises that she's in charge of and cares for. The pond holds a number of carp, but someone is snatching them. The teacher forms a special bond with a child who lives in abject poverty.
Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
1950
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Nodo jiman sanbagarasu
1951
NRJapanese drama film.
Mother Peacock
1956
NRSayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and songs, this story shows how a girl raised on a farm was able to make her dream a reality, with the love of those around her.
With Songs in My Heart
1958
NR1958 Toei movie.
Midair Circus
1958
NRA musical comedy about a spirited orphan who forms a youth baseball team and gets caught up in a mix of sports, singing, and crime when he tries to return a star player’s lost money.
The Singing Baseball Kid
1951
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kōruisō
1951
NRThis is the first film in the third installment of the adventure film for boys that depicts the battle between a thief who calls himself "the secret envoy of the Demon Lord" and private investigator Hideo Sayama. In the Toei, the roles are twenty faces and Kogo (Twenty Faces) and Akechi Kogo, with a content that seems to be strongly conscious of the "boys' Detectives" series of Edogawa Rampo, which was later made into a movie.
Maboroshi Kaito Dan
1955
9.0The fourth installment of G-men of Japan
G-men of Japan 4: Special Armed Unit Mobilization
1956
1940s · 18 titles
1946 Japanese movie.
Ojōsama o te o
1946
A state-sponsored film featuring singers who embodied the joys of rural life.
The Sky Is Blue
1943
A counterintelligence film about an American spy who conspires to spread infectious bacteria inside a Japanese factory.
You Are Being Targeted
1942
No synopsis available yet.
瓢箪から出た駒
1946
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Hopeful Family
1947
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Niji no michi
1942
No synopsis available yet.
Kenrantaru fukushū
1946
7.0This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film then follows two of the pupils, one becomes a submarine captain and the other designs submarines.
Submarine Number One
1941
World War II era Japanese adaptation of the popular French play Marius, from over a decade before. A youth is torn between his girlfriend and his love of the sea.
Umineko no minato
1942
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Odoriko monogatari
1947
NRA dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the villain’s niece and brothers on the other. When the villains’ carefully crafted facade is exposed, a monk who sides with the widow puts on the performance of a lifetime. A heartwarming pastoral comedy rich in human warmth.
The Monk Who Became a Raccoon Dog
1946
Baseball movie.
Nishi manrui
1946
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Little Green Box
1947
NR1945 Japanese movie
Who Is the Criminal?
1945
No synopsis available yet.
Machi no ninkisha
1946
Yamagami, who had been working as an engineer at an automobile factory in Manchuria, returns to postwar Tokyo for the first time in five years and is devastated to learn that his former lover, Mitsuko, had become the wife of Professor Oikawa. Now a married woman, Mitsuko is shocked to learn that Yamagami, who had been falsely reported as dead, is still alive. Conflicted about her feelings, Mitsuko confesses everything to her husband.
Thunderstorm
1946
No synopsis available yet.
Even Parting is Enjoyable
1945
NRMysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?
The Man From Chungking
1943
1930s · 3 titles
5.6A fatherless boy's mother passes him from one aunt to another.
Crybaby Apprentice
1938
7.0Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou
Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô
1934
10.0A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of the local squire, who introduces the lad to her pilot brother and his flying officer friends; through hard work, and despite the handicap of a lowly class status, he eventually succeeds in qualifying as a pilot and joining the air force.
Marching On
1930
1920s · 2 titles
Japanese silent film from 1929.
Triumphant Song of the Mountain
1929
Hirano's wife Yasuko had grown weary of her life of poverty. Her feelings of dissatisfaction deepened when she met her elegantly dressed friend Hanako. When Yasuko asked Hanako for advice, Hanako spoke at length about the restrictions and meaninglessness of married life and encouraged Yasuko to divorce her husband. Persuaded by Hanako’s words, Yasuko divorced Hirano and, hoping to emulate Hanako, adorned herself in fine clothes, applied heavy makeup, and sought to revel in her newfound freedom. But instead of admiration, she was met with ridicule and contempt. Even her attempts to gain recognition from magazines like Hanako’s went unanswered. She applied to work as a café waitress but was rejected, and when she became an office clerk at a company advertised publicly, she was treated as a nuisance. After being tossed about by these setbacks, Yasuko finally came to understand the love of her husband, Hirano.
A Wife Quits
1928
