Nobuko Otowa
Znany z: Acting
Urodziny: 1925-10-01
Miejsce urodzenia: Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Znany również jako: Nobuko Kaji, 오토와 노부코, Нобуко Отова
Women of Ginza
At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....
Wydanie : 1955.04.01Popularność : 0.633
Onibaba
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever...
Wydanie : 1964.11.21Popularność : 13.253
The Naked Island
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
Wydanie : 1960.11.23Popularność : 8.549
Turbid youth
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...
Wydanie : 1954.09.21Popularność : 0.834
Kuroneko
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai...
Wydanie : 1968.02.24Popularność : 10.314
Dolls floating down the river
A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi...
Wydanie : 1962.03.03Popularność : 0.627
Strong Women, Weak Men
After a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko and becomes a hostess.
Wydanie : 1968.06.30Popularność : 0.812
Miss Oyu
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to...
Wydanie : 1951.06.22Popularność : 7.595
Don't Mind
Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, and the ordinary people who live there.
Wydanie : 1990.03.03Popularność : 1.355
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...
Wydanie : 1952.08.06Popularność : 4.072
The Ceremony
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...
Wydanie : 1971.05.18Popularność : 7.186
Edo Porn
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend...
Wydanie : 1981.09.12Popularność : 14.633
Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
Wydanie : 1959.11.22Popularność : 2.183
The Last War
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
Wydanie : 1961.10.08Popularność : 5.683
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...
Wydanie : 1995.06.03Popularność : 2.598
Yaji and Kita on the Road
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...
Wydanie : 1958.04.29Popularność : 5.365
Human
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate...
Wydanie : 1962.11.04Popularność : 1.579
Red Lion
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to...
Wydanie : 1969.10.10Popularność : 5.919
Lucky Dragon No. 5
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...
Wydanie : 1959.02.18Popularność : 1.92
Tree Without Leaves
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his...
Wydanie : 1986.11.15Popularność : 4.073
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...
Wydanie : 1958.01.03Popularność : 3.615
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes...
Wydanie : 1970.10.31Popularność : 3.339
Demon
Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small...
Wydanie : 1985.08.31Popularność : 3.889
An Inn at Osaka
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka...
Wydanie : 1954.04.20Popularność : 3.104
Flower Shop Curtain
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.
Wydanie : 1959.01.27Popularność : 2.521
Conquest
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to...
Wydanie : 1965.11.21Popularność : 3.647
The Iron Crown
A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.
Wydanie : 1972.04.22Popularność : 7.032
Black Board
Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns...
Wydanie : 1986.09.17Popularność : 3.124
My Way
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government...
Wydanie : 1974.09.07Popularność : 3.508
Nami kage
Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
Wydanie : 1965.01.31Popularność : 1.254
The Ditch
Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his...
Wydanie : 1954.07.27Popularność : 3.545
Children on the Island
The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.
Wydanie : 1987.07.11Popularność : 2.225
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...
Wydanie : 1951.09.07Popularność : 2.144
Arashi Tatsunari
Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this story depicts a woman's difficult choice for love....
Wydanie : 1982.08.25Popularność : 1.288
The Life of Chikuzan
A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.
Wydanie : 1977.03.17Popularność : 1.059
喜劇 駅前飯店
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.
Wydanie : 1962.12.23Popularność : 2.134
The Scent of Incense
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...
Wydanie : 1964.05.24Popularność : 3.343
The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...
Wydanie : 1965.01.03Popularność : 2.051
Murahachibu
A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections
Wydanie : 1953.03.21Popularność : 1.848
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...
Wydanie : 1953.04.01Popularność : 1.695
The Tale of Genji
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...
Wydanie : 1951.06.11Popularność : 4.915
Hymn
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel...
Wydanie : 1972.12.29Popularność : 0.904
Heat Wave Island
Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with...
Wydanie : 1969.10.29Popularność : 1.893
The Approach of Autumn
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery...
Wydanie : 1960.10.01Popularność : 3.023
Monument to the Girl's Corps
In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa...
Wydanie : 1968.09.21Popularność : 2.956
Geisha in the Old City
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...
Wydanie : 1957.10.13Popularność : 1.4
Lost in the Wilderness
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of...
Wydanie : 1986.06.07Popularność : 3.185
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.
Wydanie : 1960.06.17Popularność : 3.935
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...
Wydanie : 1955.07.03Popularność : 4.362
Wedding Ring
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
Wydanie : 1950.07.01Popularność : 2.178
Nurse's Husband
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh....
Wydanie : 1980.05.10Popularność : 3.622
The Ataka Family
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to...
Wydanie : 1952.05.15Popularność : 3.983
Onna no Natsu
It depicts the emotional ups and downs of a designer who runs a clothing store and her husband over the course of a summer.
Wydanie : 1975.06.29Popularność : 0.961
The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher...
Wydanie : 1960.08.28Popularność : 1.172
The Heart
The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house. Both will be...
Wydanie : 1973.10.27Popularność : 1.362
Immortal Love
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war...
Wydanie : 1961.09.16Popularność : 4.71
Hunting Rifle
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks...
Wydanie : 1961.01.03Popularność : 0.763
When Women Lie
Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...
Wydanie : 1963.03.30Popularność : 8.809
Once a Rainy Day
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
Wydanie : 1966.10.01Popularność : 1.049
Location
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's...
Wydanie : 1984.09.22Popularność : 2.654
The Twilight Years
A woman looks after her father in law.
Wydanie : 1973.01.15Popularność : 1.695
The Incident
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...
Wydanie : 1978.06.03Popularność : 3.226
When a Woman Loves
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
Wydanie : 1959.09.24Popularność : 1.464
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...
Wydanie : 2000.12.02Popularność : 2.596
The Strangling
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...
Wydanie : 1979.06.02Popularność : 0.865
Mother
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.
Wydanie : 1963.11.08Popularność : 3.537
Free and Easy 5
Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out.
Wydanie : 1992.12.26Popularność : 1.523
Room for Let
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...
Wydanie : 1959.06.02Popularność : 2.873
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...
Wydanie : 1975.05.24Popularność : 2.807
Reminiscence
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...
Wydanie : 1953.01.15Popularność : 0.947
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.
Wydanie : 1958.01.09Popularność : 1.659
Born in Sin
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
Wydanie : 1962.11.23Popularność : 1.466
The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...
Wydanie : 1959.11.01Popularność : 10.497
Love is Lost
Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.
Wydanie : 1956.02.05Popularność : 2.054
The Maid Story
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...
Wydanie : 1963.06.16Popularność : 1.177
The Three Undelivered Letters
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional...
Wydanie : 1979.10.06Popularność : 1.653
Lost Sex
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring,...
Wydanie : 1966.08.27Popularność : 1.426
Rise Against the Sword
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...
Wydanie : 1966.11.25Popularność : 2.052
The Shop Curtain
Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
Wydanie : 1958.06.15Popularność : 1.716
Shin ono ga tsumi
20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).
Wydanie : 1956.10.09Popularność : 0.5
The Youth and His Amulet
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the...
Wydanie : 1961.09.17Popularność : 1.318
The Island Closest to Heaven
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.
Wydanie : 1984.12.15Popularność : 2.249
Floating Vessel
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Drawn...
Wydanie : 1957.04.29Popularność : 1.448
Actress
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
Wydanie : 1956.11.27Popularność : 0.951
Dream Street
A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.
Wydanie : 1989.08.05Popularność : 1.24
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha...
Wydanie : 1992.06.06Popularność : 4.139
Sakura-tai Chiru
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...
Wydanie : 1988.04.01Popularność : 3.802
Twice on a Certain Night
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...
Wydanie : 1956.06.08Popularność : 1.597
Onna no issho
Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant
Wydanie : 1953.11.23Popularność : 1.702
Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 3
The final part takes Shingo into a confrontation with his friend Yagyu Katsunoshin’s uncle in a duel that could change the destiny of Japan.
Wydanie : 1982.07.30Popularność : 0.921
The Beauty and the Dragon
Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self-righteous priest.
Wydanie : 1955.10.03Popularność : 3.217
The Horizon
Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...
Wydanie : 1984.02.11Popularność : 2.374
A Good Man, A Good Day
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...
Wydanie : 1961.08.13Popularność : 1.594
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...
Wydanie : 1950.12.02Popularność : 1.205