Muraki Shinobu

Muraki Shinobu (maiden name Nagaoka) was a Japanese art director and a production designer. She was married to art director Muraki Yoshiro.

Kinoshita Chuji

Kinoshita Chuji was a Japanese film composer. He was the brother of the film director Kinoshita Keisuke, for whom he composed many film soundtracks. (Source: Discogs)

Kuji Asami

Kuji Asami was a Japanese actress and singer.

Tanabe Setsuko

Tanabe Setsuko is a Japanese actress from Tokyo, Japan.

Chujo Shizuo

Chujo Shizuo was a Japanese actor. He died on October 5, 1994, due to liver cancer.

Matsuzaki Keiji

He was born in Kyoto Prefecture Graduated from. Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. He was active as a translator of Soviet - Russian literature and participated in Prokino ( Proletarian Film League of Japan ) formed in 1929, but gradually strengthened his relationship with commercial films and…

Morishige Hisaya

Morishige Hisaya was a Japanese actor and comedian. Born in Hirakata, Osaka, he graduated from Kitano Middle School (now Kitano High School) and attended Waseda University. He began his career as a stage actor, then became an announcer for NHK, working in Manchukuo. He became famous in films first for…

Date Saburo

Ohara Go

A brother of actor Ken Ohara. Action Director: - Gothic & Lolita Psycho | Gosurori shokeinin (2010) - Slackers 2 | Surakkazu: Kizudarake no yujo (2009) - Oneechanbara: The Movie - Vortex (2009) - Shaolin Baba (2008) - Chanbara Beauty: The Movie | Oneechanbara: The Movie (2008) - Death Trance (2006)…

Liu Yan Kai

Man of the House

6.5

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife ,who played shamisen for his songs/recitations), his affair with a geisha , and the deterioration of his partnership…

Madame Butterfly

In this version of Puccini's tragic opera tale, a man from Hong Kong falls in love with a Geisha during a trip to Japan. His mother disapproves and calls him home where he meets with an accident preventing his return…

The Snow Country

6.9

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local…

Akujo no Kisetsu

8.0

A black comedy in which Shibuya casts a withering glance on human greed and selfishness. Yashiro is a rich, old and grumpy man who lives with his mistress, an erstwhile geisha. She and her daughter conspire to kill…

Fool

The piece pokes fun at social conditions of the times through three exaggerated characters - the hero Choi Meong Teong, his friend Yun Ba Ram, and a geisha Ok Mae. (Source: KMDb) ~~ The first satirical film in Korean…

Kotohime Shichihenge

Kotohime is a princess that hates living a life following the will of others, she defeats potential marriage partners one after another. Depending on the occasion, she changes from her princess costume to a disguise…

Tora-san 17: Sunrise and Sunset

7.5

During his travels, Tora-san meets Ikenouchi, a drunken old man whom he assumes is poor and homeless. Tora-san takes the old man home. When he wakes up, Ikenouchi begins ordering Tora-san's family around in such an…

The Twilight Samurai

7.8

At the start of the film, the main character, Iguchi Seibei, becomes a widower when his wife succumbs to tuberculosis. His wife receives a grand funeral, more than what a low-ranking samurai such as Seibei could afford.…

Tora-san 27: Love in Osaka

7.7

Tora meets Fumi, while on a peddling junket to a small island in the Inland Sea. Tora is magnetized by Fumi even though knowing little or nothing about her. Tora encounters Fumi again in Osaka. Then, he comes to know…

Hero

7.9

An Jung Geun is a fighter for the Korean independence movement. Seol Hee used to be a court lady for Queen Myeongseong, but, after Queen Myseongseong was assassinated by the Japanese, Seol Hee takes part in Korean…