Acting

Eiran Yoshikawa

Born

1904-08-22 (122)

Place of birth

Yanagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 6 titles

1950s · 31 titles

Ikinokotta benten-sama poster
NR

As 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

Haha no mizūmi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Haha no mizūmi

1953

Rakka no mon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rakka no mon

1954

Kanojo no tokudane poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kanojo no tokudane

1952

Koi no yakyūken: Kōiu guai ni shiyashi yanse poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Koi no yakyūken: Kōiu guai ni shiyashi yanse

1955

Shinzōyaburi no oka poster
NR

A 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

Atarashiki ten poster
NR

A 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

Machi no kotengu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Machi no kotengu

1952

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kinseimei shōbu monogatari: Kettō

1953

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer poster
NR

After 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

Teenage Secrets poster
NR

A melodrama centered on adolescent high school students that depicts the secrets and joys and sorrows known only to them.

Teenage Secrets

1954

Police Precinct Part 5 poster
NR

The 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

Musume hatsukoi yatton-bushi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Musume hatsukoi yatton-bushi

1952

Miss Teacher poster
NR

As 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

Hida no ko tengu poster
NR

A 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

No artwork available
NR

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

Haha nami poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Haha nami

1953

Gunrō no machi poster
NR

There 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

Tokoharu jamono poster
NR

Two 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

No artwork available
NR

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

The Eyes of Two People poster
8.0

Futari 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

Zoku bakurō ichidai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zoku bakurō ichidai

1952

Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi poster
NR

The 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

Nodo jiman sanbagarasu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nodo jiman sanbagarasu

1951

Mother Peacock poster
NR

Japanese drama film.

Mother Peacock

1956

With Songs in My Heart poster
NR

Sayuri, 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

Midair Circus poster
NR

1958 Toei movie.

Midair Circus

1958

The Singing Baseball Kid poster
NR

A 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

Kōruisō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kōruisō

1951

Maboroshi Kaito Dan poster
NR

This 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

G-men of Japan 4: Special Armed Unit Mobilization poster
9.0

The fourth installment of G-men of Japan

G-men of Japan 4: Special Armed Unit Mobilization

1956

1940s · 18 titles

No artwork available
NR

1946 Japanese movie.

Ojōsama o te o

1946

No artwork available
NR

A state-sponsored film featuring singers who embodied the joys of rural life.

The Sky Is Blue

1943

No artwork available
NR

A counterintelligence film about an American spy who conspires to spread infectious bacteria inside a Japanese factory.

You Are Being Targeted

1942

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

瓢箪から出た駒

1946

The Hopeful Family poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Hopeful Family

1947

Niji no michi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Niji no michi

1942

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kenrantaru fukushū

1946

Submarine Number One poster
7.0

This 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

No artwork available
NR

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

Odoriko monogatari poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Odoriko monogatari

1947

The Monk Who Became a Raccoon Dog poster
NR

A 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

No artwork available
NR

Baseball movie.

Nishi manrui

1946

The Little Green Box poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Little Green Box

1947

Who Is the Criminal? poster
NR

1945 Japanese movie

Who Is the Criminal?

1945

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Machi no ninkisha

1946

No artwork available
NR

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 artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Even Parting is Enjoyable

1945

The Man From Chungking poster
NR

Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?

The Man From Chungking

1943

1920s · 2 titles