Date of birth: 1926-11-11
Place of birth: Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Акихико Катаяма
1944-08-11
Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono
1952-06-12
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
1962-02-04
1962 Japanese movie
1962-03-04
1962 Japanese movie
1952-06-19
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
1952-03-14
Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki
1962-02-21
Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the imposs
1952-01-03
Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.
1960-12-14
Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car acciden
1962-09-01
1962 Japanese movie
1955-12-21
On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting h
1956-08-14
In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tene
1960-12-27
The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunos
1960-08-09
Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feel
1954-06-15
A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his tru
1948-11-01
The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along
1945-07-26
1945 Japanese movie
1951-09-14
Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman
1945-10-25
1945 Japanese movie
1956-04-04
1956 Japanese movie
1970-02-14
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog
1956-03-28
1956 Japanese movie
1961-01-14
Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and fai
1938-09-21
Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamot
1941-05-23
This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as resu
1953-06-15
The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threa
1951-12-14
Japanese drama film.
1954-01-09
Japanese musical.
1954-12-29
In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives C
1955-07-26
Japanese film.
1951-08-17
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved anot
1950-05-06
A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.
1958-01-29
Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.
1968-06-15
Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the comp
1958-11-30
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with
1949-03-22
A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic
1955-09-07
The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer secti
1963-08-28
Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to
1967-11-12
1960-03-08
1959-05-27
The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin.
1954-03-31
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their fi
1963-03-01
1940-10-10
Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō
1939-02-15
"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, T
1937-11-03
One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in
1967-02-25
The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who,
1966-10-29
1960-02-10
Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as
1963-11-02
The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a s
1961-02-01
1961 Japanese movie
1954-12-29
A steel-clad fiend terrorizes Tokyo, raiding clock shops. Detective Kogoro Akechi uncovers a map hid
1966-03-26
1952-07-03
Sanada Bunkichi, an alcoholic musician who had lost all motivation to live, was a man who seemed to
1953-08-25
1961-03-01
1961 Japanese movie