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Kuniko Miyake

Kuniko Miyake

Wood combustion Miyake (三宅 邦子, Miyake wood combustion, 17 September 1916 – 4 November 1992) was a Japanese actress. She appeared in more than 180 films from 1934 to 1991.

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Movies Starring Kuniko Miyake (91)

Until the End of the World (1991)

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CI ...

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Wim Wenders in Tokyo (1990)

A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, in Tokyo, and details the creation of the film's groundbreaking high-definition sequences. ...

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Gonza the Spearman (1986)

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appearances are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan ...

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The Makioka Sisters (1983)

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between ...

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The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges (1974)

Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Katsuji finds his long lost mother, who is a rich lady of a ...

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The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (1968)

Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's all about to change when her real father mysteriously comes to get her and finally bring her home. ...

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The Daring Nun (1968)

One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion that nuns should not lead cloistered lives but should see something of modern life. She makes the acquain ...

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The Final Winner? (1968)

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher. ...

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Sodachi zakari (1967)

Japanese movie released on September 30 , 1967 . Produced and distributed by Toho . Color , Toho scope . Running time is 88 minutes. ...

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Youth After School (1963)

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was broadcast on NHK TV in 1963, but the program recording technology was not mature at that time, and relevant ...

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An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her. ...

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Zoku aizen katsura (1962)

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Hibari's Tale of Pathos (1962)

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster's henchman hears her singing and takes a liking to her beautiful voice. The trouble starts when her family borrows money from the gangsters, setti ...

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Mount Hakone (1962)

Japanese drama. ...

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Flower in a Storm (1962)

1962 Japanese movie. ...

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The Burdened Sisters (1961)

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961. ...

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The Radiant Prince (1961)

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu's "Genji Monogatari" (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new tale of his further romantic adventures. Young Genji, the emperor's illegitimate son cuts a swath through the women of the imper ...

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Late Autumn (1960)

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband. ...

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Tokyo Omnibus (1959)

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of ...

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Someday I'll Know (1959)

A modern love story involving different affairs. ...

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Etajima, the Naval Academy (1959)

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing fa ...

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Good Morning (1959)

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu's perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weave ...

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The Makioka Sisters (1959)

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel. ...

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The Snowy Heron (1958)

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her. ...

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Bright Young Maidens (1958)

In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a suitable lodger who will catch the eye of her daughter. ...

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Escapade in Japan (1957)

A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off on an unintended journey across the country. ...

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On This Earth (1957)

Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with eac ...

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The Blue Sky Maiden (1957)

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was. ...

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The Rose on His Arm (1956)

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza. ...

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Children Seeking a Mother (1956)

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son. ...

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Early Spring (1956)

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair. ...

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Ejima and Ikushima (1955)

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun's mother, wife and concubines resided, forbidden from contac ...

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Mother's Ambition (1955)

The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When the residence is released to them, Mrs. Ishida wants to turn it into a Western style hotel to recoup their f ...

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The Phantom Horse (1955)

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby. ...

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Farewell Song (1955)

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister. ...

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Mother's First Love (1954)

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man. ...

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Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass (1954)

The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences of a middle-aged couple with a child! A cheerful work depicting the problems between three generations of men and women in a bright and healthy ...

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Aizen katsura (1954)

1954 Japanese movie ...

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Bannai Tarao Series Demon King of Kyokumadan (1954)

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka. ...

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Tokyo Story (1953)

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their ag ...

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The Wild Geese (1953)

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age. ...

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Zoku jūdai no seiten (1953)

Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako. ...

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The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis. ...

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Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove (1952)

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father, Ryutaro, whom she always thought was an agricultural and forestry engineer, was a circus clown. Over time, M ...

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Youth of the Son (1952)

The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls. ...

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A Ripple in a Morning (1952)

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan. ...

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Early Summer (1951)

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry. ...

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Ah, Youth (1951)

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I Yearn for Father (1951)

Yuji Makita (Wakahara) came to a hot spring port town as a singer who plays the guitar. Thirteen years ago, Sanae Shimura (Miyake) was in love with him, and now Sanae works at a bar in Tokyo to support her daughter Emiko (Misorah) and elderly father Daisek ...

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Homecoming (1950)

A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his daughter. ...

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Battle of Roses (1950)

A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom. ...

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Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen (1949)

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949). ...

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Island of Horrors (1949)

Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an isolated island in the Seto Inland Sea. Kosuke Kindaichi received a will from his friend Kito, which said, "Go to ...

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Late Spring (1949)

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of ...

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Flame of My Love (1949)

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 in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government. ...

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The Portrait (1948)

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait. ...

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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate. ...

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Introspection Tower (1941)

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is often short on water, and one day, the well runs dry. ...

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Okinu and Banto (1940)

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks. ...

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Haha o tataeru uta (1939)

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children ...

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New Woman Question and Answer (1939)

Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko (Kuniko Miyake), one of the seven best friends from the same women's college, is getting married. ...

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A Brother and His Younger Sister (1939)

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers. ...

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Okayo's Preparedness (1939)

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs. ...

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Family Diary (1938)

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others' families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start... ...

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Half Virgin (1938)

Miyake has a boyfriend, Daijiro Natsukawa, who is a novelist, but considering her future marriage, Miyake is also looking for a job for her, but Saburi, who was in her private car, does not come to his company. mosquito? She is told that she has to work. ...

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Queen of the Wind (1938)

A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for special training and the man tries to get the general manager to send his girlfriend since this training wou ...

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The Trio's Engagements (1937)

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu. ...

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The Golden Demon (1937)

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becomes a miser. ...

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Housewife Camellia (1936)

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to look after, and they end up meeting several colorful personalities. ...

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Boy Aviation Pilots (1936)

Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering the service, while the other finds a job in civilian aviation through his instructor's good offices. ...

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Burden of Life (1935)

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted. ...

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Poppy (1935)

Based on Soseki Natsume's 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to Munechika, a rising young diplomat. She has promised him a gold watch, a family ...

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Eclipse (1934)

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the law ...

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