Yo Shiomi
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1895-07-07
Locus Natus: Tokyo, Japan
Et ut: Ё Сиоми
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
release : 1952.05.14popularis : 2.099
Phoenix
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she...
release : 1956.06.14popularis : 1.191
Man Who Causes a Storm
Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to...
release : 1957.12.28popularis : 3.544
Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.
release : 1939.12.20popularis : 1.793
Avalanche
The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his...
release : 1937.07.01popularis : 1.571
Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...
release : 1953.10.21popularis : 2.042
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
The debut film of Shin Toho Productions
release : 1947.02.25popularis : 1.434
The Beautiful Hawk
One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version
release : 1937.10.01popularis : 2.412
Karisome no kuchibeni
A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"
release : 1934.11.22popularis : 0.704
Banzuiin Chōbei
A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.
release : 1940.05.29popularis : 0.647
Kantaro of Ina
War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.
release : 1943.01.03popularis : 0.88
Green Earth
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...
release : 1942.04.01popularis : 0.883
Maboroshi Tantei: Chiteijin Shūrai
First "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.
release : 1960.02.14popularis : 0.706
The Last Embrace
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...
release : 1953.03.11popularis : 2.04
The Moon Has Risen
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved...
release : 1955.01.08popularis : 3.384
A Ripple in a Morning
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
release : 1952.05.01popularis : 1.336
Wedding Day
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...
release : 1940.03.20popularis : 0.476
Summer Storm
A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.
release : 1956.10.01popularis : 1.292
The Girl in the Rumor
A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but...
release : 1935.12.22popularis : 1.177
Invisible Man
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
release : 1954.12.29popularis : 2.688
Kaguya Hime
Toho's production of the classic Japanese fairytale.
release : 1935.11.11popularis : 0.529
China Night
Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...
release : 1940.01.02popularis : 0.922
Iemitsu and Hikoza
A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing...
release : 1941.03.26popularis : 1.026
Learn from Experience, Part One
Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of...
release : 1937.10.01popularis : 1.471
Dancers of Awa
Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....
release : 1941.05.21popularis : 1.081
Namiko
An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...
release : 1932.05.19popularis : 0.97
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...
release : 1960.05.29popularis : 3.153
Mother of the Red Hands
The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone...
release : 1941.09.03popularis : 0.625
Living Image
A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
release : 1948.10.12popularis : 1.205
Okumura Ioka
Okumura Ioko story directed by Shiro Toyoda
release : 1940.06.25popularis : 0.731
The Giant
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...
release : 1938.02.02popularis : 1.48
Mado Kara Tobidase
The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...
release : 1950.03.26popularis : 2.183