Masao Shimizu
Kjent for: Acting
Fødselsdag: 1908-10-05
Fødselssted: Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Også kjent som:
The Fourth Lady
It was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land of my nostalgia. It was Tokyo that had turned to...
Utgivelse : 1948.12.23Popularitet : 0.62
Godzilla Raids Again
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon...
Utgivelse : 1955.04.24Popularitet : 16.725
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...
Utgivelse : 1952.10.09Popularitet : 16.664
Sansho the Bailiff
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
Utgivelse : 1954.03.31Popularitet : 8.011
Turbid youth
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...
Utgivelse : 1954.09.21Popularitet : 1.635
Striving to Live
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...
Utgivelse : 1955.02.25Popularitet : 2.36
I Live in Fear
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...
Utgivelse : 1955.11.22Popularitet : 8.723
Sanjuro
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...
Utgivelse : 1962.01.01Popularitet : 13.465
The 47 Ronin
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences...
Utgivelse : 1941.12.08Popularitet : 6.75
Drunken Angel
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to...
Utgivelse : 1948.04.27Popularitet : 10.083
Scandal
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Utgivelse : 1950.04.26Popularitet : 6.243
High and Low
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his servants son is kidnapped
Utgivelse : 1963.03.01Popularitet : 18.208
Reminiscence
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...
Utgivelse : 1953.01.15Popularitet : 0.95
The Wild Sea
Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But...
Utgivelse : 1969.10.15Popularitet : 1.971
The Life of Oharu
In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
Utgivelse : 1952.04.17Popularitet : 7.983
No Regrets for Our Youth
Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...
Utgivelse : 1946.10.29Popularitet : 6.622
Farewell to Spring
Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura
Utgivelse : 1952.03.28Popularitet : 0.947
One Wonderful Sunday
Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have...
Utgivelse : 1947.07.01Popularitet : 5.228
The Stand in Hakone
A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.
Utgivelse : 1952.03.14Popularitet : 2.306
Rusty Knife
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a...
Utgivelse : 1958.03.11Popularitet : 2.896
White Beast
The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases,...
Utgivelse : 1950.06.03Popularitet : 3.13
Children of Hiroshima
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...
Utgivelse : 1952.08.06Popularitet : 5.182
Break Down that Wall
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Utgivelse : 1959.06.23Popularitet : 2.079
Pomegranate Time
Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
Utgivelse : 1967.09.15Popularitet : 1.183
Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks...
Utgivelse : 1963.01.29Popularitet : 1.339
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by...
Utgivelse : 1969.11.22Popularitet : 1.773
Forbidden Lips
A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.
Utgivelse : 1958.01.03Popularitet : 0.724
Wakai toppū
On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her...
Utgivelse : 1960.07.20Popularitet : 1.704
Ah, My Hometown
A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)
Utgivelse : 1938.10.06Popularitet : 1.215
Who's The Real Killer
Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
Utgivelse : 1957.07.03Popularitet : 1.128
The Straits of Love and Hate
A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
Utgivelse : 1937.06.17Popularitet : 2.336
Little Snack
Rebecca an incredibly successful image "upgrader" who specializes in bringing out the best version of one's self, is faced with her most formidable...
Utgivelse : 1968.09.15Popularitet : 0.755
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...
Utgivelse : 1970.08.14Popularitet : 4.451
The Wild Reporter
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then...
Utgivelse : 1959.09.27Popularitet : 2.778
Samurai Banners
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He...
Utgivelse : 1969.03.01Popularitet : 4.273
Judge and Jeopardy
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a...
Utgivelse : 1968.06.08Popularitet : 1.69
Battle of the Japan Sea
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...
Utgivelse : 1969.08.01Popularitet : 6.134
人生とんぼ返り
After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.
Utgivelse : 1946.06.27Popularitet : 0.823
Shadow of intimidation
Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts...
Utgivelse : 1959.04.22Popularitet : 0.749
Confession of a girl: Purity
The film depicts the life of a high school student today, touching on issues of purity, sports, higher education, and employment, through the pursuit...
Utgivelse : 1968.12.14Popularitet : 0.907
A Samurai's Love
A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.
Utgivelse : 1954.03.03Popularitet : 0.847
限りなき情熱
Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry...
Utgivelse : 1951.06.01Popularitet : 1.069
Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...
Utgivelse : 1949.10.17Popularitet : 13.794
The Elder Sister
Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.
Utgivelse : 1969.06.09Popularitet : 2.402
Wife
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...
Utgivelse : 1953.04.29Popularitet : 5.936
Gate of Hell
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love...
Utgivelse : 1953.10.30Popularitet : 7.755
Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and...
Utgivelse : 1961.06.19Popularitet : 1.07
The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...
Utgivelse : 1968.03.01Popularitet : 2.398
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...
Utgivelse : 1953.10.21Popularitet : 2.042
JA750 Gōki Yukuefumei
1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between...
Utgivelse : 1959.03.25Popularitet : 1.951
Foul Play
Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was...
Utgivelse : 1955.01.03Popularitet : 1.96
The Great White Tower
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...
Utgivelse : 1966.10.15Popularitet : 5.828
Traitors of the Blue Castle
Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.
Utgivelse : 1957.12.03Popularitet : 1.291
The Wolves
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...
Utgivelse : 1955.07.03Popularitet : 2.425
Shitto
Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.
Utgivelse : 1962.01.03Popularitet : 1.217
Apostasy
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
Utgivelse : 1948.11.30Popularitet : 2.748
How Sorrowful
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...
Utgivelse : 1956.09.07Popularitet : 2.7
Once More
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....
Utgivelse : 1947.04.01Popularitet : 1.043
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish...
Utgivelse : 1950.10.14Popularitet : 1.62
Military Song of the Morning Mist
At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.
Utgivelse : 1943.04.29Popularitet : 2.931
The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...
Utgivelse : 1959.01.03Popularitet : 2.441
The Ball at the Anjo House
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...
Utgivelse : 1947.09.27Popularitet : 2.595
Stakeout
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
Utgivelse : 1958.01.15Popularitet : 1.995
No Time for Tears
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic...
Utgivelse : 1955.05.10Popularitet : 2.254
Season of the Sun
The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often...
Utgivelse : 1956.05.17Popularitet : 1.556
Savage Wolf Pack
A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger...
Utgivelse : 1969.02.22Popularitet : 2.359
Mother Never Dies
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
Utgivelse : 1942.09.24Popularitet : 2.754
Beyond the Green Hills
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...
Utgivelse : 1963.01.03Popularitet : 2.402
Story of a Beloved Wife
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...
Utgivelse : 1951.09.07Popularitet : 3.028
Keep Your Chin Up
Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji...
Utgivelse : 1962.03.04Popularitet : 1.688
The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a...
Utgivelse : 1963.02.10Popularitet : 1.256
Street of Violence
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Utgivelse : 1950.02.26Popularitet : 1.303
Summer Storm
A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.
Utgivelse : 1956.10.01Popularitet : 1.292
Young Swordsman
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...
Utgivelse : 1963.08.31Popularitet : 2.541
A Hole of My Own Making
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but...
Utgivelse : 1955.09.28Popularitet : 1.154
Welcome, My Baby
Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic...
Utgivelse : 1964.02.23Popularitet : 1.348
Those Who Make Tomorrow
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in...
Utgivelse : 1946.05.02Popularitet : 4.169
Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...
Utgivelse : 1943.04.15Popularitet : 0.776
The Night before Pearl Harbor
The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy...
Utgivelse : 1968.03.09Popularitet : 2.807
Kojiro
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi...
Utgivelse : 1967.04.01Popularitet : 2.959
Tiger of the Sea
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
Utgivelse : 1964.08.14Popularitet : 1.134
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
Utgivelse : 1948.09.26Popularitet : 2.458
Patterns of Love
Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.
Utgivelse : 1960.06.26Popularitet : 1.155
Glory on the Summit
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...
Utgivelse : 1962.07.29Popularitet : 3.117
Love in Ginza
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he...
Utgivelse : 1962.03.04Popularitet : 2.309
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...
Utgivelse : 1961.01.03Popularitet : 1.539
Four Young Sisters
Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...
Utgivelse : 1964.12.01Popularitet : 1.214
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
Utgivelse : 1959.05.21Popularitet : 3.834
The Snow Woman
A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding...
Utgivelse : 1968.04.20Popularitet : 2.985
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.
Utgivelse : 1952.05.01Popularitet : 1.336
This Happy Life
A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.
Utgivelse : 1944.01.27Popularitet : 2.029
The Young and Bad
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...
Utgivelse : 1962.09.09Popularitet : 1.428
The Swan Elegy
One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering...
Utgivelse : 1966.10.29Popularitet : 1.44
Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...
Utgivelse : 1953.04.01Popularitet : 2.233
Youth of the Beast
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
Utgivelse : 1963.04.21Popularitet : 7.54
The Champion
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s...
Utgivelse : 1957.05.01Popularitet : 6.859
That Guy and I
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....
Utgivelse : 1961.09.10Popularitet : 1.723
The Sound of Waves
On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest...
Utgivelse : 1964.04.29Popularitet : 1.746
Mother Country
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...
Utgivelse : 1962.04.29Popularitet : 2.327
The White Orchid
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
Utgivelse : 1951.03.24Popularitet : 1.162
Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...
Utgivelse : 1968.08.14Popularitet : 2.264
Adolescence
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
Utgivelse : 1952.08.28Popularitet : 0.933
Sunflower Girl
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...
Utgivelse : 1953.03.26Popularitet : 3.216
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...
Utgivelse : 1972.12.29Popularitet : 2.041
Crimson Wings
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received...
Utgivelse : 1958.12.28Popularitet : 2.765
On This Earth
1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura
Utgivelse : 1957.11.22Popularitet : 1.476
The Guitarist and the Rancher
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...
Utgivelse : 1960.01.03Popularitet : 1.161
Secret of Naruto
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima...
Utgivelse : 1957.09.29Popularitet : 3.321
Lone Rebel
Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a...
Utgivelse : 1969.09.13Popularitet : 1.427
City of Beasts
University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutical company with a dark past, slowly but surely...
Utgivelse : 1970.05.23Popularitet : 1.202
Karate Sanshiro
Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging house girl who is in love with him and in the midst...
Utgivelse : 1951.12.28Popularitet : 1.104
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...
Utgivelse : 1951.12.21Popularitet : 1.52
Flame of My Love
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...
Utgivelse : 1949.02.13Popularitet : 2.645
Lord for a Night
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Utgivelse : 1946.07.11Popularitet : 1.803
A Woman's Life
One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.
Utgivelse : 1962.11.18Popularitet : 0.928
Shojohou
A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...
Utgivelse : 1950.12.02Popularitet : 2.362