Date of birth: 1939-04-20
Place of birth: Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as:


1969-10-01
A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying

1970-04-08
Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the m

1970-01-15
Seijuro Fujihana, head master of the Fujihana dance school, is a proud and lonely artist. And becaus

1966-03-05

1973-01-04
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.

1959-11-17
The lives of a teenager, his impoverished family, a wealthy young woman who buys a pigeon from him,

1956-11-21
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko

1955-11-29
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, i

1974-10-19
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To

1973-09-29
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later

1954-09-15
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village

1962-04-29

1953-09-15
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during th

1962-07-29
1962 Japanese movie

1965-01-30
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one h

1962-08-12
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work

1959-01-15
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la

1951-02-17
The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investi

1980-03-15
The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival

1973-07-13
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not

1964-03-01
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gan

1964-07-03
As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after b

1961-03-19
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip

1960-10-19
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poo

1969-11-14
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

1969-08-27
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but recon

1959-01-03
After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

1976-07-23
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mits

1980-12-27
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to To

1968-06-30

1970-02-26
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii

1973-12-25
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encount

1974-12-28
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and l

1980-08-02
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her si

1978-09-23
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove

1979-12-28
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan sto

1971-02-10
It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She no

1970-08-26
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to

1966-03-23
Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense

1971-01-15
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown a

1984-08-04
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san mee

1970-01-15
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.

1969-02-21
During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Ma

1971-07-24
Comedy of a phony doctor.

1963-04-14
This is the second installment in the Shichinin no Keiji police procedural series.

1964-11-14

1971-03-03
1971 Japanese movie

1967-06-22
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil p

1960-02-02
A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train ac

1958-02-16
Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. T