Date of birth: 1935-11-16
Place of birth: Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 瀧川マチエ, Masumi Harukawa, Machie Takigawa
Born Machie Takigawa, she was active as a dancer at the Asakusa Rock Theater under the stage name Mary Rose in the early 1950s. Due to her appearance, she was affectionately nicknamed Daruma-chan and Jumbo-chan. Soon after moving to the Nichigeki Music Hall, she was scouted by the film industry and made her acting debut in "Gurama-to no yuwaku/The Temptation of Grama Island." Memorable in Japan for her regular role in eight of the ten Toei film series " Trucker Rascals," playing the wife of the series co-star Aikawa Kinya, among appearances in other popular cinematic serials such as Zatoichi and Tora-san. International audiences would be more familiar with her work with avant-garde directors Shōhei Imamura & Shūji Terayama.
1969-11-01
Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusiv
1987-08-01
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even
1959-12-27
The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950
1963-11-16
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe
1968-04-13
1964-06-28
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a h
1965-06-13
1976-02-14
1966-09-17
Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie
1967-01-03
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Z
1972-09-02
After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s
1977-12-29
A comedy farce depicting the noise that occurs when two unemployed circus participants discover a de
1969-04-12
1971-03-06
1974-12-28
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescenc
1968-10-22
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedicati
1960-02-09
A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
1968-06-22
A salaryman comedy.
1970-06-25
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there'
1971-01-09
1985-03-06
Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers
1965-12-04
Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it w
1967-09-30
Japanese movie released on September 30 , 1967 . Produced and distributed by Toho . Color , Toho sco
1963-07-13
1963 Japanese movie
1965-01-31
Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
1965-08-01
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous mast
1969-03-01
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters th
1959-10-11
Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesa
1971-04-15
Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.
1991-01-25
V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.
1980-11-15
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi
1972-12-09
Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habi
1975-02-15
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens
1975-08-30
The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and hi
1977-10-01
In the midst of a match, a successful boxer - Hayato, has had enough of the sport. He lets himself g
1993-10-09
In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauch
1975-12-27
The comical adventures of two long-distance truck drivers, Momojiro and Kinzo, continue. Momojiro an
1968-05-30
A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his e
1970-06-25
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there'
1968-06-01
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dre
1981-04-07
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high
1964-03-01
Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.
1964-10-03
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor.
1988-04-15
A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you
1966-02-17
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an adv
1976-08-07
Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.
1977-12-24
The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel ar
1976-12-25
The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Mom
1979-12-22
Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet mu
1977-08-06
The fifth movie of the “Truck Yaro” series, which is comical road movies of two long-distance trucke
1978-08-12
Hoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and Jonat
1979-08-04
Ninth movie in the Torakku Yarō series. Momojiro travels to Nagano to take Jonathan's place driving
1978-12-23
Eighth movie in the Torakku Yarō series
1962-03-18
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
1966-12-13
Just after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of the de
1968-11-30
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as
1965-01-30
A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She
1965-02-20
Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love
1964-02-01
Japanese comedy film.
1969-07-31
Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.
1961-04-16
Modern comedy, based on the popular manga.
1965-02-13
Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
1988-07-16
Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite
1964-10-17
A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have thei
1970-10-24
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a min
1968-05-01
A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.
1968-11-02
Second part of the Zenka mono series.
1987-04-11
Based on the comic by Mako Takami.
1961-09-04
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Jap
1965-06-26
South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now,
1987-04-25
1987film
1970-01-15
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
1969-07-23
Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups.
1959-07-28
Explicit drama about a young woman who becomes involved with a group of college students who play "s
1984-03-17
A boy transfers into a new high school in the big city. He gets bullied, but meets a pretty girl. He
1964-12-12
Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treas
1969-10-01
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his
1974-12-28
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and l
1986-09-06
A married long-distance truck driver falls for a significantly younger waitress at a roadside diner.
1972-04-29
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visi
1976-06-19
Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
1967-09-15
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
1959-01-15
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all
1974-10-19
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To
1976-04-24
1964-01-01
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog s
1966-03-10
A young samurai defends townsfolk from evil forces.
1959-03-15
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
1989-01-14
Visualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist who di
1976-09-04
Daisuke and Shinichi are companions who frequent girlie shows and parties until they find out they a
1974-03-09
In front of Sagami Detention Center. Shosuke, the owner of a strip joint called "Shunpu Music," welc
1965-10-15
Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
1966-03-05
Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
1978-12-16
The Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady are circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "mons
1967-02-25
1968-04-06
1973-01-22
A middle-aged office worker, Masao Okada (Eiji Okada), discovers that his worsening illness is termi
1961-01-09
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitima
1968-10-05
1968 Japanese movie
1960-09-18
1960 Japanese movie
1969-02-15
The 24th and final entry in the Ekimae series, set at Takamatsu Station in Kagawa Prefecture, former
1967-02-11
Frankie Sakai plays a Chino-Japanese man who after trudging along in odd jobs discovers his true tal
1965-07-31
1988-12-17
The Sagami family has been running an Edo-style woodworking shop in downtown Tokyo for generations.
1964-01-01
1964 Japanese movie
1960-03-18
The film is based on the 1959 hit song of the same name by the Three Cats.
1985-01-05
When the seventh shogun, Ietsugu died, shogunate officials chose Yoshimune, Lord of Kishu, to succee
1975-05-31
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of f
1961-01-26
1961 Japanese movie
1969-06-24
1969 Japanese movie