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Haruo Tanaka
was a Japanese film actor noted for his supporting roles in a career that spanned seven decades. Career Tanaka was born in Kyoto and quit school in order to become a film actor, joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1925. He eventually moved up to secondary leads and even into leading roles against actresses such as Ranko Hanai and Haruyo Ichikawa, but he never succeeded as a matinee idol. Following Masaichi Nagata, he moved to Daiichi Eiga and Shinkō Kinema before eventually going freelance. He appeared in over 250 films, both gendaigeki and jidaigeki, by directors such as Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Sadao Yamanaka, Akira Kurosawa, Tomu Uchida, Mikio Naruse, and Masahiro Makino. He was particularly skilled at comic roles. He also appeared in many ''jidaigeki'' on television. Selected filmography *''Kyōren no onna shishō'' (狂恋の女師匠) (1926) *'' The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya'' (ハワイ・マレー沖海戦) (1942) * '' Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoto
Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the List of cities in Japan, ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half (56.8%) of Kyoto Prefecture's population resides in the city. The city is the cultural anchor of the substantially larger Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. It is also part of the even larger Keihanshin, Keihanshin metropolitan area, along with Osaka and Kobe. Kyoto is one of the oldest municipalities in Japan, having been chosen in 794 as the new seat of Japan's imperial court by Emperor Kanmu. The original city, named Heian-kyō, was arranged in accordance with traditional Chinese feng shui following the model of the ancient Chinese capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang. The emperors of Japan ruled fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomu Uchida
, born Tsunejirō Uchida, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Uchida chose the stage name Tomu, a transliteration of the English Tom, written in Kanji characters meaning "to spit out dreams". Biography Early career After leaving junior high school in Okayama prematurely, Uchida started acting in films of the short-lived Taishō Katsuei studio in 1920, later moving to Nikkatsu in 1926. In 1927, he gave his directorial debut with ''Kyōsō mikkakan'' (lit. "Three days of competition"). In the following years, Uchida worked in a variety of genres: the tendency film ''Ikeru ningyo'' (lit. "Living dolls"), which is regarded as one of the first of its kind, the satirical comedy and Historical drama, period film ''Adauchi senshu'' (lit. "Vengeful player", 1931) and the gangster film ''Policeman'' (''Keisatsukan'', 1933), Uchida's only surviving complete silent film, which film historians described as "a perfect pastiche, well ahead of its time" (Noël Burch) and "incredibly st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Legend Of The White Serpent (1956 Film)
is a 1956 romantic fantasy film directed by Shirō Toyoda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film is based on the Chinese fairy tale '' Pai-she Chuan'' and the stories '' Story of a White Snake'' and '' White Woman's Magic'' by Fusao Hayashi. Plot Xu Xian was a poor young man living by West Lake. One rainy day, he got drenched because he didn't bring an umbrella. Bai Niangzi lent him her umbrella and later proposed to him. Xu Xian received two packets of silver coins as wedding preparation money. When he opened them, he found that the silver was stolen goods. After being accused of a crime, Xu Xian was flogged and sent to prison in Suzhou. Fortunately, his brother-in-law spent money to spare Xu Xian from imprisonment. Xu Xian worked at an inn in Suzhou, and Bai Niangzi followed him to Suzhou to express her true feelings and seek Xu Xian's forgiveness. Later, the two lived happily together. One day, a Taoist priest from Maoshan warned Xu Xian that he had been bewi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marital Relations
, also known as ''Love is Shared Like Sweets'', is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Shirō Toyoda, starring Hisaya Morishige and Chikage Awashima. It is an adaptation of the 1940 novel of the same name by Sakunosuke Oda. ''Marital Relations'' tells the story of a couple, a disinherited son of a shopkeeper and his geisha mistress, in Osaka in the early Shōwa era. Cast * Hisaya Morishige * Chikage Awashima * Yoko Tsukasa * Chieko Naniwa * Haruo Tanaka Awards ''Marital Relations'' received the Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director, Best Actor (Morishige) and Best Actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Film Concours for Best Actor and Best Screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Mikio Naruse's ''Floating Clouds'') on the list of the year's ten best films of ''Kinema Junpō , commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japanese ''Jun'' (旬) system of dividing months ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Inn At Osaka
is a 1954 Japanese drama and shōshimin-eiga film directed by Heinosuke Gosho. It is based on the novel of the same name by Takitarō Minakami and was produced by Gosho's own production company Studio Eight. Film historians regard ''An Inn at Osaka'' as one of Gosho's major, but also darker works. Plot After his reassignment to Osaka due to an argument with his superior, Tokyo businessman Mita is residing in a cheap inn as his salary won't allow for better accommodation. Though rather a reclusive person, he tries to help the housemaidens with their monetary problems (including a solitary mother and the wife of an unemployed worker), while geisha Uwabami tries to awaken his interest, but to no avail. In the end, Mita, who is critical of his new superior's reckless business practices which result in a business partner's suicide, is transferred again. During the goodbye ceremony, Mita reminds the participants, who have all missed their intended goals in one way or another, to "hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crucified Lovers
, also titled ''A Story from Chikamatsu'', is a 1954 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It was adapted from Monzaemon Chikamatsu's 1715 bunraku play ''Daikyōji mukashi goyomi''. Plot In Edo-period Japan, Mohei is an apprentice to Ishun, the wealthy grand scroll-maker of Kyoto. Ishun makes nightly sexual forays into the maid Otama's room, but she resists his advances, despite offers of goods and property, claiming to be engaged to Mohei. Mohei refuses to go along with the deception and tells Otama to accept the rape because they are both there to serve the household. As two adulterers are paraded through the streets on their way to be crucified, Mohei proclaims that they should not have betrayed morality. When Ishun's brother-in-law asks for a loan, Ishun's wife Osan, knowing Ishun will refuse, seeks help from Mohei. Mohei begins forging a receipt attempting to obtain a loan in Ishun's name, but is caught. Ishun threatens to summon the authorities, but Otama asks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Of A Woman
is a 1953 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō. It is based on Guy de Maupassant's 1883 novel '' Une vie''. Plot Shortly after graduating from high school, Fujiko Shirakawa is married to Shintarō Yamazaki, whose parents run a lucrative restaurant. Fujiko soon finds out that not only her father-in-law has two mistresses, but that Shintarō has an affair with maid Yuki. Pregnant with Shintarō's child, Fujiko gives in to her parents' and parents-in-law's appeal to stay with her husband. When Yuki also turns out to be pregnant and is sent back to her parents, Fujiko manages to talk her parents-in-law into raising Yuki's son Jirō together with her own son Tarō in the Yamazaki household. Some time later, Shintarō dies, and with the outbreak of the Pacific War, Tarō and Jirō are mobilised. After the end of the war, Fujiko manages the still flourishing restaurant of the Yamazaki family. Her son Tarō, who has returned from the war while Jirō has gone missi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where Chimneys Are Seen
, also titled ''Four Chimneys'', is a 1953 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Heinosuke Gosho. Based on the novel ''Mujaki na hitobito'' by Rinzō Shiina, ''Where Chimneys Are Seen'' is regarded as one of Gosho's most important and well-known films and a typical example of the shōshimin-eiga genre. Plot Hiroko Ogata and her second husband Ryukichi (her first husband Tsukahara is believed to have died in a bombing in the Second World War) live in the lower-class outskirts of Tokyo. The upper floor of the Ogatas' flat is rented to Kenzō and Senko, a young man and a woman who show interest in each other, but are not a couple. One day, the Ogatas find a baby in the house entrance with a note signed by Tsukahara, stating it was Hiroko's daughter. The marriage is engulfed in a crisis, with Hiroko nearly committing suicide. Kenzō searches the city for Tsukahara and finally finds him and his new wife, the actual mother of the abandoned child, who initially had wanted to abort i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ikiru
is a 1952 Japanese tragedy film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella '' The Death of Ivan Ilyich''. The film's major themes include learning how to live, the inefficiency of bureaucracy, and decaying family life in Japan, which have been the subject of analysis by academics and critics. Having won awards for Best Film at the Kinema Junpo and Mainichi Film Awards, it is considered one of the greatest films of all time. Plot Kanji Watanabe has worked in the same monotonous, bureaucratic position in the Tokyo public works department for thirty years and is close to retirement. His wife is dead, and his son, Mitsuo, who lives with his wife in his father's home, seems eager to claim both his father's estate and lifetime pension. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rikon
is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. Cast * Ureo Egawa as Shōgo Yamamura * Yuriko Hanabusa as Natsuno Sōma * Chōko Iida as Kikuyo * Michiyo Kogure as Michiko Sōma * Noriko Munakata as Tsuruko Miyawakita * Shin Saburi as Daisuke Sakuma * Tatsuo Saitō as Hanzō Sakai * Haruko Shima as Sadako Kitazawa * Kyōji Sugi as Masanao Sōma * Haruo Tanaka as Fumio Sōma * Jun Tazaki , born Minoru Tanaka, was a Japanese actor best known for his various roles in kaiju films produced by Toho, often portraying scientists or military personnel. Career Tanaka began his career as a traveling stage actor in the 1930s, performi ... as Kensaku - Tazaki * Misako Yoshimura as Toshiko Yamamura References External links * http://pimo.txt-nifty.com/blog/2009/01/rikon-1952-7b09.html * Japanese black-and-white films 1952 films Films directed by Masahiro Makino 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conduct Report On Professor Ishinaka
is a 1950 Japanese comedy film directed by Mikio Naruse. It consists of three self-contained episodes, based on stories by Yōjirō Ishizaka. Plot ;Episode 1 "A Story of Buried Gasoline" Professor Ishinaka is a novelist living in a village in Aomori and respected by the villagers for his advice. He is paid a visit by Yuzō, a young man who believes that he and his army comrades buried 460 drums of gasoline in the orchard of local farmer Yamazaki shortly before the end of the war. Ishinaka, Yuzō, Yamazaki and townsman Nakamura start digging, but soon give up and drink sake instead, entertained by Yamazaki's daughter Moyoko with a traditional folk dance. Yuzō later confesses to Moyoko that he only pretended that the drums were buried in her father's orchard because he fell in love with her during his first visit and wanted to meet her again. Ishinaka, Yuzō and Nakamura leave the digging to Yamazaki, who thinks that Yuzō and his daughter would make a good pair and asks the prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
