Kuniko Miyake

	Kuniko Miyake was a Japanese actress. She appeared in nearly 200 films between 1934 and 1991. Biography Miyake was born Yasu Miura in Iwatsku City, Saitama Prefecture. After graduating from Saitama Prefectural Kuki High School, she joined the Shochiku film studios in 1934 and made her film debut the same year with ''Yume no sasayaki''. After World War II, she also appeared in productions by Toho, Daiei and other film studios. Miyake starred in many films directed by Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese filmmaker. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s. The most pr ..., including '' Late Spring'' and '' Tokyo Story''. She also frequently appeared in television dramas. Selected filmography References External links * 1916 births 1992 deaths Japanese film actresses Japanese television actresses People from Saitama (ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Iwatsuki, Saitama was a city located within Saitama Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the city had an estimated population of 109,580 and the density Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the ratio of a substance's mass to its volume. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter ''D'' (or ''d'') can also be u ... of 2,229.05 persons per km2. The total area was 49.16 km2. On April 1, 2005, Iwatsuki was merged into the expanded city of Saitama, effectively the former city becomes Iwatsuki-ku. The city was founded on July 1, 1954 by turning in South Saitama District into a district-independent city. Dissolved municipalities of Saitama Prefecture Populated places established in 1954 Populated places disestablished in 2005 2005 disestablishments in Japan {{Saitama-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Battle Of Roses ''Battle of Roses'' () is a 1950 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on the pre-war novel ''Bara kassen'' by Fumio Niwa. Cast * Kuniko Miyake * Setsuko Wakayama * Yōko Katsuragi * Kōji Tsuruta * Tōru Abe * Mitsuo Nagata * Yōko Wakasugi * Shirō Ōsaka * Noriko Sengoku * Hanshiro Iwai * Eitarō Shindō * Toshiko Ayukawa * Haruo Inoue Haruo Inoue (井上春生 ''Inoue Haruo'', born January 3, 1963, in Nara, Japan) is a Japanese film director artist. Life and career In 1991, Haruo Inoue started his career by directing a short film titled "An Expressed Messenger and a Wandering ... * Shigeo Shizuyama * Hiroshi Aoyama Reception Naruse biographer Catherine Russell rated ''Battle of Roses'' a lesser work by its director, which seemed "to have been hastily put together, with some surprisingly abrupt editing and a rather poor script ��drawing on the sensationalism of the “liberated” woman. Notes References External links * 1950 films 1950 dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Late Autumn (1960 Film) is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It stars Setsuko Hara and Yoko Tsukasa as a mother and daughter, and is based on a story by Ton Satomi. ''Late Autumn'' follows the attempts of three older men to help the widow of a late friend to marry off her daughter. The daughter is less than happy at the proposals, mainly because of her reluctance to leave her mother alone. The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 33rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. While not one of the works for which Ozu is most known, ''Late Autumn'' is highly regarded by critics. Plot Three middle-aged friends and former college mates – Mamiya (Shin Saburi), Taguchi (Nobuo Nakamura) and Hirayama (Ryūji Kita) – meet up for a memorial service on the seventh anniversary of the death of a late college friend, Miwa. Miwa's widow Akiko ( Setsuko Hara) and 24-year-old daughter Ayako ( Yoko Tsukasa) are also present. The three friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Good Morning (1959 Film) is a 1959 Japanese comedy film co-written and directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It is a loose remake of his own 1932 silent film '' I Was Born, But...'', and is Ozu's second film in color. Plot The film takes place in suburban Tokyo, and begins with a group of boy students going home. The film steers into a subplot concerning the local women's club monthly dues. Everyone in the neighborhood club believes that Mrs Hayashi, the treasurer, has given the dues to the chairwoman, Mrs Haraguchi, but Mrs Haraguchi denies it. They gossip amongst themselves who could have taken the money, and speculate that Mrs Haraguchi could have used the money to buy for herself a new washing machine. Later Mrs Haraguchi confronts Mrs Hayashi for starting the rumor and ruining her reputation, but Mrs Hayashi states that she ''has'' indeed handed the dues money to Haraguchi's mother. Only later does Mrs Haraguchi realize it was her mistake (her mother being quite senile and forgetful), and she goes to apo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Suzakumon (film) , is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Kazuo Mori and based on a novel by Matsutarō Kawaguchi. At the 1957 Asia-Pacific Film Festival the film won awards for best film and best cinematography (Kazuo Miyagawa). The film also won a special award at the 1958 Mainichi Film Concours. Cast Source: Ayako Wakao as Princess Kazu, a.k.a. Kazunomiya * Raizo Ichikawa as Prince Arisugawa Taruhito * Fujiko Yamamoto as Yuhide, Princess Kazu's waiting woman * Shunji Natsume as Emperor Kōmei * Kuniko Miyake as Tsuneko, Kazunomiya's mother * Eijirō Tōno as Tomofusa Kunokura, Yuhide's father * Eitaro Ozawa as Iwakura Tomomi (as Sakae Ozawa) * Yoichi Funaki as Tokugawa Iemochi * Toshio Hosokawa as Tokugawa Yoshinobu * Masao Mishima as Sakai Tadaaki, the Kyoto Shoshidai * Kikue Mōri as Honjuin, 13th Shogun's mother * Kimiko Tachibana as Oriko * Hisao Toake as Kujō Hisatada, the Kampaku * Eijirō Yanagi as Ryuan, Yuhide's real father * Hisako Takihana as Tenshō-in * Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Early Spring (1956 Film) is a 1956 film by Yasujirō Ozu about a married salaryman ( Ryō Ikebe) who escapes the monotony of married life and his work at a fire brick manufacturing company by beginning an affair with a fellow office worker (Keiko Kishi). The film also deals with the hardships of the salaryman lifestyle. "I wanted," Ozu said, "to portray what you might call the pathos of the white-collar life." With a runtime of 144 minutes, ''Early Spring'' is Ozu's longest surviving film, and his penultimate shot in black and white. Plot Office worker Shoji Sugiyama ( Ryō Ikebe) wakes and goes about his morning routine, attended by his wife, Masako (Chikage Awashima), before commuting to his job in the Tokyo office of a fire brick manufacturing company. During a hiking trip with office friends, Shoji spends time alone with a fellow worker, a typist nicknamed "Goldfish" for her large eyes (Keiko Kishi). After the trip Goldfish makes advances to Shoji and the two begin an affair. Masako suspects some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Kazuo Mori , also known by his street name , was a Japanese film director who primarily worked in popular genres like the jidaigeki. Mori directed over 100 films in his life. Career Born in Ehime Prefecture, Mori graduated from Kyoto University before joining Nikkatsu's Uzumasa studio in 1933. A favorite of the producer Masaichi Nagata, he followed him to Daiichi Eiga and Shinkō Kinema before getting a chance to direct in 1936 with ''Adauchi hizakurige''. When Shinkō Kinema was merged with other studios to form Daiei Film, Mori became one of Daiei's core directors of genre films, making primarily samurai films with stars such as Raizō Ichikawa, Kazuo Hasegawa, and Shintaro Katsu. While not an auteur An (; , ) is an artist with a distinctive approach, usually a film director whose filmmaking control is so unbounded and personal that the director is likened to the "author" of the film, thus manifesting the director's unique style or thematic ..., he was a solid craftsman in the ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Shiro Toyoda Shiro, Shirō, Shirow or Shirou may refer to: People , leader of the Shimabara Rebellion , Japanese boxer , Japanese football player 1923–1925 , Japanese composer , Japanese weightlifter , Japanese microbiologist and lieutenant general , Japanese actor and comedian , Japanese actor, known for the Super Sentai franchise , Japanese artist , Attorney General of Hawaii from 1959 , Japanese admiral , Japanese football player , Japanese actor , Japanese wrestler , Japanese designer , Japanese general at the Battle of Leyte , Japanese fencer , Japanese manga artist , Japanese rower , Japanese football player 1934 , Japanese manga artist , Japanese enka singer , Japanese car designer , American judo practitioner and wrestler , Japanese music producer and composer , Japanese judo practitioner , Japanese actor and film director , Japanese anime producer , Japanese cross-country skier , Japanese Christian minister , Japanese television announcer , Japanese a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Wild Geese (1953 Film) is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Shirō Toyoda. The film is based on Mori Ōgai's novel of the same name. Hideko Takamine stars as Otama, a young woman who becomes the mistress of a married man in order to support her aging father. Plot Otama is a young woman who has previously been married, though the man turned out to already have been married with a wife and child. Because of this Otama is considered a disgrace and finding a good match near impossible. Feeling pressure to support her father who is frail, aging, and works to support them both by selling candy, Otama agrees to have dinner with a widowed kimono merchant who has offered to keep Otama as his mistress. Unbeknown to her, Suezō, the man she has agreed to meet, is in fact a still married moneylender and the arrangement between them has been set up to settle some debts of the matchmaker. At a restaurant before she meets Suezō, Otama sees a handsome young student, Okada, who also notices her. Nevertheless ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Flavor Of Green Tea Over Rice is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. The screenplay concerns a wealthy middle-aged couple (played by Shin Saburi and Michiyo Kogure) who have marital difficulties, and their niece who uses the couple's troubles as her excuse for not attending arranged marriage interviews. Plot Taeko and Mokichi Satake are a childless married couple living in Tokyo. The husband, whom the wife thinks dull, is an executive at an engineering company. Taeko's friend Aya persuades Taeko to falsely claim to her husband that Taeko's brother's daughter, Setsuko, is ill, so that she can go to a spa with a couple of friends. The plan goes wrong when Setsuko visits her house unexpectedly, but Taeko substitutes the invalid with another friend, Takako, and obtains consent from her husband to go for a break. At the spa, the four women drink sake and look at the koi in the pond, comparing a slow moving black one to Taeko's husband. A few days later, Taeko, Aya, and Takako attend a baseball ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hibari No Sākasu Kanashiki Kobato , "Hibari's Circus: Sad Little Dove" is a 1952 black and white Japanese film directed by Mizuho Shunkai. Cast * Hibari Misora * Keiji Sada * Keiko Kishi * Kuniko Miyake * Shunji Sakai * Ichirō Shimizu * Ryūji Kita * Haruhisa Kawada * Shin Tokudaiji * Akio Isono * Kazuko Motohashi * Eiko Takamatsu * Reiko Mizukami * Taeko Hira See also * List of films in the public domain in the United States Most films are subject to copyright, but those listed here are believed to be in the public domain in the United States. This means that no government, organization, or individual owns any copyright over the work, and as such it is common property ... References Japanese black-and-white films 1952 films Films directed by Mizuho Shunkai Shochiku films 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]