Heihachirô Ôkawa

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Five Men in a Circus
6.4

Five Men in a Circus

Oct. 21, 1935

Five Men in a Circus

Five poor musicians make up the worst traveling brass band in Japan. For a few days they hook up with an awful circus whose male performers are ...
Tipsy Life
6.2

Tipsy Life

May. 04, 1933

Tipsy Life

Sachiko Chiba sells beer at a railroad station. Two young men are in love with her. One of them sells ice cream at the same station. He wants to ...
The Mysterians
0

The Mysterians

Dec. 28, 1957

The Mysterians

Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on. But when they are discovered to be ...
Tokyo File 212
5.2

Tokyo File 212

Jan. 26, 1951

Tokyo File 212

A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a ...
The Wind Cannot Read
6.1

The Wind Cannot Read

Jun. 10, 1958

The Wind Cannot Read

During World War II, the Japanese forces push their way into Burma and threaten to invade British India at the end of 1942. Caught in a flood of ...
Wings of Victory
7.1

Wings of Victory

Oct. 15, 1942

Wings of Victory

Release: Tsubasa no gaika 1942 Satsuo Yamamoto tt0274997 General: mkv | 2169 Kbps | 1.66 GB | 01:49:21 Video: 1974 Kbps | 716×480 (4:3) | ...
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
6.8

Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in ...
One of Those Things
6.1

One of Those Things

Jan. 22, 1971

One of Those Things

A successful auto executive Vinther becomes entwined with a young nubile girl, following an avoidable car accident, that results in the death of ...
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
6.8

Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro

Sep. 29, 1938

Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro

Mr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer assisted by Ms. Tsuruhachi on the shamisen. The pair is popular, but he nitpicks often on her music and ...
Learn from Experience, Part One
6.8

Learn from Experience, Part One

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of ...
A Woman’s Sorrows
6.6

A Woman’s Sorrows

Jan. 21, 1937

A Woman’s Sorrows

The film title Nyonin Aishu means the sadness of women and this summarizes this story of a “conservative and indecisive” Japanese ...
Three Stripes in the Sun
6.6

Three Stripes in the Sun

Nov. 23, 1955

Three Stripes in the Sun

A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman. Release: Three Stripes ...
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
7.4

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

Aug. 15, 1935

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

A Tokyo salary girl lives with very serious bluestocking haiku-writing mother. The salary girl seeks to marry the attendant dish but needs an ...
Morning’s Tree-Lined Street
6.8

Morning’s Tree-Lined Street

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo’s point o view ...
The Road I Travel with You
6.0

The Road I Travel with You

The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of ...
Learn from Experience, Part Two
6.6

Learn from Experience, Part Two

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part – Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that ...
The Girl in the Rumor
6.7

The Girl in the Rumor

Dec. 22, 1935

The Girl in the Rumor

A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a “moga” (“modern girl”). Their widowed father runs ...
Dancing Girl
6.8

Dancing Girl

Jan. 01, 1951

Dancing Girl

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the ...