Date of birth: 1907-03-07
Place of birth: Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 伊東 叶江(本名), 小林 加奈枝, 小林 叶江(出生名)


1943-10-28
Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorit

1966-05-03
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no ide

1962-01-14
1962 Japanese movie
1956-03-28
Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

1962-02-21
1962 Japanese movie

1951-06-22
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her w

1962-04-06
1962 Japanese movie
1950-04-09
In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka S

1966-12-24
Third film of the yoidore hakase series

1962-02-21
Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the imposs

1926-10-15

1955-09-06
Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They

1960-04-14
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed b

1962-09-01
Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after be

1960-09-28

1966-08-12
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into

1948-10-18
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m

1958-09-22
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golde

1969-08-09
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the rut

1976-09-15
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess

1973-07-07
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed m

1953-12-29
Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki.

1965-07-14
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die
1958-11-29
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo

1954-11-23
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b

1959-07-12

1973-04-14
A Buddhist priest rescues a homeless girl and brings her into his temple's household. Soon she becom

1961-10-11
A unique story of a life of romance, divided into three episodes about the profound secrets of the p

1961-01-09
The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develo

1971-05-26
Shocking scenes are revealed in the Nagasaki Women's prison.

1972-01-15
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag
1956-02-26
It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one

1965-12-24
Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirst

1963-03-15
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in

1970-08-12
The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jea

1963-08-06
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrin

1970-06-20
One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatam

1959-01-28
Film directed by Kenji Misumi.

1965-04-30
Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot

1966-03-12
The masked daughter of the Shogun wants to kill a samurai who has seen her scarred face. She sends

1954-06-20
After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, ru

1961-03-21
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven

1969-11-15
Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time

1967-08-12
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival ga

1969-12-20
Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involve

1966-07-02
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai princ

1975-09-27
A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowe

1957-03-06
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji

1953-08-12
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu,

1962-04-18
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll

1971-01-13
Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking

1967-12-30
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father,

1956-11-07

1954-09-29

1951-09-07
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno st

1965-04-03
Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo d

1964-08-08
A wandering gambler strolls into a village searching for his father's killer, unaware that the villa

1966-06-22
1946-10-01
A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.

1956-01-03

1956-01-09

1956-07-25

1978-09-06
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much

1945-12-20
1945 Japanese movie

1961-01-09
1961 Japanese movie

1954-07-28
Second in the Nage Utasamon series

1956-04-04

1957-07-13
A revenge comedy directed by Torajiro Saito (Oedo's most Popular Man) from a script by Chao Fushimi

1940-03-31
Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto.

1961-02-22
1961 Japanese movie