Movies: Chikako Hosokawa
- 1960
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
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Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for...
- 1968
Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
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Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill....
- 1952
Children of Hiroshima (1952)
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Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath....
- 1954
Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
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With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money....
- 1963
The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart (1963)
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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 new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an...
- 1964
The Call of Blood (1964)
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Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father....
- 1954
The Golden Demon (1954)
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Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a wealthy banker's son. In bitter ...
- 1961
Tokyo Knights (1961)
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A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime....
- 1961
That Guy and I (1961)
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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. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which ...
- 1952
Shi no machi wo nogarete (1952)
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Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War....
- 1961
Buddha (1961)
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An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals ...
- 1957
Streetlights (1957)
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A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket....
- 1963
High School Third Graders (1963)
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In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to Tomorrow” with the same title, produced by Daiei with this song as a motif. Singer and actor Funaki Kazuo ...
- 1961
A Design for Dying (1961)
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Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into pictur...
- 1963
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection (1963)
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[Period covered: 1595-1600] Third film in the famous shinobi no mono series. We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill. With the help of the ...
- 1953
Miniature (1953)
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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 in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate....
- 1956
Love is Lost (1956)
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Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya....
- 1935
Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
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Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her f...
- 1962
Children of Izu (1962)
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- 1935
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935)
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Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars......