Acting

Aiko Mimasu

Born November 2, 1902 · Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Died January 18, 1982 · aged 79

Aiko Mimasu ( November 2, 1910– January 18, 1982) was a Japanese actress. After the war, she became famous for her role in mother-movie films, and was known as the "mother-movie actress." Her real name is Aiko Kawaguchi, and her maiden name is Inui. She was born in Minami-Sumiyacho , Minami-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture (now Chuo-ku ). Her husband is Shotaro Kawaguchi , a Naoki Prize-winning a…

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Yearning

Yearning · 1964

MovieDramaRomance

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.

Street of Shame

Street of Shame · 1956

Street of Shame

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Yobiko hoshi

Yobiko hoshi · 1952

Haha chidori

Haha chidori · 1951

Due to obligation, they parted ways, but mother and child meet again in front of the father's grave.

The Naked General

The Naked General · 1958

The Naked General

MovieComedyDrama

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

The Storm of the Pacific

The Storm of the Pacific · 1960

The Storm of the Pacific

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.

Haha no hitomi

Haha no hitomi · 1953

A blind little girl searches for her mother.

Haha yamahiko

Haha yamahiko · 1952

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Yearning

Yearning · 1964

MovieDramaRomance

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.

Shizu Morita

Street of Shame

Street of Shame · 1956

Street of Shame

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Yumeko

Yobiko hoshi

Yobiko hoshi · 1952

Haha chidori

Haha chidori · 1951

Due to obligation, they parted ways, but mother and child meet again in front of the father's grave.

The Naked General

The Naked General · 1958

The Naked General

MovieComedyDrama

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

The Storm of the Pacific

The Storm of the Pacific · 1960

The Storm of the Pacific

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.

Sato

Haha no hitomi

Haha no hitomi · 1953

A blind little girl searches for her mother.

Haha yamahiko

Haha yamahiko · 1952

Boshisen

Boshisen · 1951

Hahakozuru

Hahakozuru · 1952

Nobuko Tsuji

Haha no mizūmi

Haha no mizūmi · 1953

Haha no mizūmi

Haha nami

Haha nami · 1953

Brothers'Code - The Back Relation

Brothers'Code - The Back Relation · 1968

Brothers'Code - The Back Relation

MovieCrimeDrama

Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he met Torajiro, a master of kendo, who had just left prison after slashing his adoptive father who stole his son's wife. Torajiro was on his way to his brother-in-law, Iwai. While talking about themselves, they someday felt something similar to friendship.

The Loyal 47 Ronin

The Loyal 47 Ronin · 1958

The Loyal 47 Ronin

MovieDramaHistory

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.

Notsubone Toda

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations · 1969

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

MovieDramaHistory

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Tatsu Onuma

Mabuta no haha

Mabuta no haha · 1952

MovieActionDrama

Chōchō shissō jiken

Chōchō shissō jiken · 1947

Chōchō shissō jiken

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Daughters, Wives and a Mother · 1960

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.

Aki Sakanishi

Yakuza of the Present

Yakuza of the Present · 1973

Yakuza of the Present

MovieCrimeDrama

In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant decides to rise up again when he sees his former family being overrun by a modern yakuza group from the Kansai region.

Yone

The Machine Gun Dragon

The Machine Gun Dragon · 1976

The Machine Gun Dragon

MovieActionCrime

Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and the mafia.

The Last Kamikaze

The Last Kamikaze · 1970

The Last Kamikaze

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission.

Three Mothers

Three Mothers · 1949

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime

A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime · 1954

A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime

Soemon, the master of Gidayū-style madcap performances, has gathered the entire tenement block again tonight and is tormenting everyone with his terrible Gidayū singing.

Haha koiboshi

Haha koiboshi · 1949

Ooku

The Ooku of Edo Castle was a mysterious existence that could not be seen from the outside for 300 years in Tokugawa. Love and hate, and fierce power struggles were fought among the women day and night.