was a Japanese actor.
He appeared in more than 300 films between 1925 and 1965, mostly in productions of the
Shōchiku studio.
He gained popularity as a supporting character,
working for directors such as
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 ...
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Keisuke Kinoshita
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Ronald Berganbr>"A satirical eye on Japan: Keisuke Kinoshita" ''The Guardian'', 5 January 1999. While lesser-known internationally than contemporaries such as Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and ...
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Mikio Naruse
was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967.
Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily Shoshimin-eiga, shōshimin-eiga ("common people drama") films with f ...
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Hiroshi Shimizu and
Heinosuke Gosho
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who directed Japan's first successful sound film, '' The Neighbor's Wife and Mine'', in 1931. His films are mostly associated with the shōshimin-eiga (lit. "common people drama") genre. Among his ...
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Selected filmography
* 1929: ''
Days of Youth''
* 1931: ''
The Neighbor's Wife and Mine''
* 1931: ''
Tokyo Chorus
is a 1931 Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Tokihiko Okada and Emiko Yagumo. It was based on various stories in the Shoshimin-gai (Middle Class Avenue) series and shares influences with King Vidor's ''The Crowd (1928 f ...
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* 1932: ''
I Was Born, But...''
* 1933: ''
The Dancing Girl of Izu''
* 1933: ''
Every-Night Dreams''
* 1933: ''
Passing Fancy''
* 1933: ''
Wasei Kingu Kongu''
* 1934: ''
A Story of Floating Weeds''
* 1935: ''
An Inn in Tokyo''
* 1937: ''
What Did the Lady Forget?
* 1938: ''
The Masseurs and a Woman''
* 1939: ''
A Brother and His Younger Sister''
* 1941: ''
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family''
* 1941: ''
Ornamental Hairpin''
* 1947: ''
The Record of a Tenement Gentleman''
* 1948: ''
A Hen in the Wind''
* 1951: ''
Carmen Comes Home''
* 1951: ''
Nami''
* 1952: ''
Ringo-en no shōjo''
* 1953: ''
Where Chimneys Are Seen''
* 1953: ''
Ojōsan shachō''
* 1955: ''
Takekurabe''
* 1957: ''
Times of Joy and Sorrow''
* 1957: ''
Untamed''
* 1963: ''
A Legend or Was It?''
References
External links
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1899 births
1974 deaths
Japanese male film actors
Male actors from Hyōgo Prefecture
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