Mitsuko Baisho
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1946-11-22
Locus Natus: Ibaraki, Japan
Et ut: Mitsuko Baishô, 바이쇼 미츠코, Мицуко Байсё, 倍赏美津子
The Eel
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no...
release : 1997.05.12popularis : 9.003
Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...
release : 1980.04.26popularis : 16.867
Dreams
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
release : 1990.05.11popularis : 11.345
Turn
Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck by a truck. When she comes to she is at home....
release : 2001.10.13popularis : 1.228
The Ballad of Narayama
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should...
release : 1983.04.29popularis : 11.968
Vengeance Is Mine
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
release : 1979.04.21popularis : 11.079
CINEMA FIGHTERS
Six stories based on six songs, the first project of Cinema Fighters.
release : 2018.01.26popularis : 1.313
Tenchu!
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.
release : 1969.08.09popularis : 2.968
Blazing Famiglia
"Blazing Famiglia" centers around a family of former teenage gangsters. Tetsu Hino (Yoshimi Tokui) was once the leader of the most feared motorcycle...
release : 2012.09.08popularis : 3.711
The Lady Shogun and Her Men
In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the...
release : 2010.10.01popularis : 4.753
Tales from Earthsea
Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that...
release : 2006.07.29popularis : 16.889
The Crazy Family
The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as...
release : 1984.06.24popularis : 5.182
The Geisha
Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it...
release : 1983.09.10popularis : 4.139
Manhunt
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.
release : 1976.02.11popularis : 4.098
My Phoenix
Romance story about the first female manager of the Nihon University Phoenix
release : 1989.05.13popularis : 1.535
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...
release : 1978.07.01popularis : 5.155
A Last Note
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...
release : 1995.06.03popularis : 1.856
Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune
Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to...
release : 2009.09.26popularis : 4.459
P. P. Rider
Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
release : 1983.02.11popularis : 5.213
Offbeat Cops
Tsukasa Naruse works as a detective. He is enthusiastic with his job. To catch criminals, he sometimes breaks rules that detectives should follow....
release : 2022.08.26popularis : 6.546
Tokyo Lullaby
Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He...
release : 1997.06.20popularis : 1.916
Mr. Love Chemistry 2
Despite working as a matchmaker, Sosuke is an awkward person. He works with Shion and they bicker over their different beliefs of love and marriage.
release : 2015.09.18popularis : 0.883
Let Him Rest in Peace
A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads.
release : 1985.06.14popularis : 1.397
Duel at Fort Ezo
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian...
release : 1970.02.09popularis : 2.348
Solitude Point
Yukie is a romance story about an American veteran (Bo Swenson) of the Korean War veteran and his undying love for a beautiful Japanese nurse named...
release : 1998.02.14popularis : 0.891
Wings of Icarus' Flight
A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening...
release : 1980.01.26popularis : 1.802
Rock: Wanko no Shima
A boy, Shin, and his family are forced to evacuate the island of Miyakejima, when it erupts in 2000. Shin's dog, Rock, is mistakenly left behind.
release : 2011.07.23popularis : 2.078
The Blind Swordsman
A documentary about the character created for a series of Japanese films starring Shintaro Katsu. There are behind-the-scenes interviews on the set...
release : 1978.06.21popularis : 1.051
Locomotive Teacher
Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost after the accident and eventually decides to...
release : 2004.07.31popularis : 3.147
All Around Us
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...
release : 2008.06.07popularis : 3.827
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics employee who rallies his coworkers to save their...
release : 2002.06.16popularis : 0.927
Counterfeit
Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by a former student, who proposes a plan to...
release : 2009.03.22popularis : 2.156
Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
Comedy centered on a stripper agency
release : 1971.07.24popularis : 0.903
Out
When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the...
release : 2002.10.19popularis : 0.911
Winter's Flower
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself...
release : 1978.06.17popularis : 2.811
Why Not?
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...
release : 1981.01.08popularis : 4.771
52-Hertz Whales
Mishima Kiko was exploited by her own family. When she was little, her mother neglected her. After her mother remarried, Kiko was abused mentally and...
release : 2024.03.01popularis : 7.185
Zegen
At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level...
release : 1987.06.02popularis : 1.652
Time Never Stops
A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and a family that escaped the disaster. The film...
release : 2014.02.22popularis : 0.699
Love Letter
A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.
release : 1998.05.23popularis : 0.425
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
release : 2001.11.03popularis : 8.637
Charming Men
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko...
release : 1970.06.13popularis : 1.749
The Hidden Festival
Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small...
release : 1998.05.30popularis : 1.308
A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
The story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for their store in Tokyo. There they meet a Russian...
release : 2001.09.01popularis : 3.683
Flames of Blood
The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's...
release : 1981.01.01popularis : 2.542
Miyamoto Musashi
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...
release : 1973.07.13popularis : 2.279
A Scream from Nowhere
In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy...
release : 1977.06.18popularis : 2.402
Dendera
Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the...
release : 2011.06.25popularis : 2.283
Shining Boy and Little Randy
Tetsumu, an introverted youth, realizes he has a natural ability of communicating with elephants. This prompts him to leave for Chiang Mai in...
release : 2005.09.23popularis : 1.455
Sing My Life
Katsu (Mitsuko Baisho) is a 73-years-old woman. She often makes trouble with her biting remarks. While raising a daughter alone, Katsu was unable to...
release : 2016.04.01popularis : 4.127
Chase That Man
The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.
release : 1972.02.23popularis : 1.194
Curtain Call
Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her...
release : 1984.07.14popularis : 0.955
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Kazuya Takajo was a promising soccer player. At the age of 23, he was selected for the national A football team and he bought a house to live with...
release : 2017.01.03popularis : 1.548
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
release : 1997.11.08popularis : 2.006
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Arrangement instructor Makiko Norita (Yukie Nakama) displays a dignified smile, but she also makes bitting remarks. Nevertheless, with her magic...
release : 2013.09.27popularis : 3.431
Risking it All: The Spirit of the Men in Orange
Yamakura of the Kobe Fire Department aspires to wear the vaunted “orange” uniform of an elite rescue force that only 3% of all...
release : 2015.01.19popularis : 0.804
Sure Death 4
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in...
release : 1987.06.06popularis : 3.138
Theater Of Life
Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and...
release : 1972.07.15popularis : 1.805
Flower and Dragon
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two...
release : 1973.03.17popularis : 1.523
The Shinano River
Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.
release : 1973.11.22popularis : 0.95
Daddy on a Rocking Boat
Based on the comic by Mitsutoshi Furuya
release : 1973.11.22popularis : 1.082
Follow the Girls
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
release : 1971.05.19popularis : 0.844
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her...
release : 1977.09.17popularis : 1.805
The Life of Chikuzan
A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.
release : 1977.03.17popularis : 1.462
Shichou Shisu
The mayor is found dead in the river in a small town known for its hot springs. It's assumed that he fell to his death, but his nephew just cannot...
release : 2012.04.03popularis : 0.858
Women Who Do Not Divorce
Keiichi (Kenichi Hagiwara) is a weather man. He gets involved with two married women, Yoshiko (Mitsuko Baisho) and Miyoko (Chieko Baisho). Both want...
release : 1986.10.25popularis : 1.228
Love Letter
A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukemia, his wife and child that were left behind, and...
release : 1985.10.05popularis : 1.501
11’09”01—September 11
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length –...
release : 2002.09.04popularis : 13.106
The Three Ginza Rascals
Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.
release : 1976.10.01popularis : 3.218
When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes
When Satoshi was little, his mother Akiko always took good care of him. She was gentle, but mentally strong. However, two years ago she was diagnosed...
release : 2019.02.22popularis : 1.638
Lover's Duet
A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.
release : 1967.09.30popularis : 1.602
Bōkyō
Three stories from Shiratsuna Island: "Mikan no hana" Shiratsuna Island is the only remaining island city in Japan, but it is being merged with a...
release : 2016.09.28popularis : 1.159
Fun on the Run
Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.
release : 1970.12.30popularis : 0.639
Our Miyo-chan
Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl.
release : 1969.12.31popularis : 1.071
Women Can't Be Beaten
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.
release : 1969.10.01popularis : 0.915
Snowman
A near future not far from now. A couple who are tied with deep love with, Roku and Miyuki. Miyuki decide to freeze Roku had an incurable disease and...
release : 2018.01.26popularis : 0.602
Threads - Our Tapestry of Love
Ren Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda were both born in 1989. They met for the first time at the age of 13 and became each other's first love, but they...
release : 2020.08.21popularis : 4.955
The Million Dollar Pursuit
Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.
release : 1968.01.04popularis : 3.251
Cabaret
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist...
release : 1986.04.26popularis : 2.765
Nuclear Gypsies
Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon...
release : 1985.05.05popularis : 0.671
The Instant Services Bureau
Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office.
release : 1971.08.07popularis : 0.927
By Player
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...
release : 2000.12.02popularis : 2.1
In the Wake
Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence...
release : 2021.10.01popularis : 3.553
Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku
Eiso Tsubaki, a former aristocrat, was suspected in a murder case in Ginza and committed suicide. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke, who is commissioned by...
release : 2018.07.23popularis : 0.958
Postcard
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the...
release : 2010.10.27popularis : 1.721