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Mutsuko Sakura is a Actor Japonaise born on 15 february 1921
Mutsuko Sakura (桜 むつ子, Sakura Mutsuko, 15 February 1921 – 23 January 2005) was a Japanese actress.
Her hobby was golf. She started work at Shochiku in 1950, and played supporting roles in some of Yasujirō Ozu's films. She was a constant in Japanese film and TV drama for half of the 20th century.
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Her hobby was golf. She started work at Shochiku in 1950, and played supporting roles in some of Yasujirō Ozu's films. She was a constant in Japanese film and TV drama for half of the 20th century.
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The Village Album (2004)
, 1h51Directed by Mitsuhiro Mihara
Genres Drama
Actors Tatsuya Fuji, Mutsuko Sakura, Kazue Fukiishi, Ren Osugi
Rating69%
Le village de Hanatani dans la vallée de la préfecture de Tokushima va être submergé lors de la construction d'un barrage. Afin de préserver la beauté du lieu pour les générations futures, les villageois décident de photographier toutes les familles du village. Kenichi, le seul photographe du village, est chargé du projet. Il appelle son fils Takashi, photographe en herbe, pour l'aider dans la tâche. Takashi est perplexe car son père et lui ne sont pas du tout proches, mais alors qu'ils visitent tour à tour chaque famille et que Takashi voit son père travailler, les sentiments de Takashi envers son père commencent à changer.
Swing Girls (2004)
, 1h45Directed by Shinobu Yaguchi
Origin Japon
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Juri Ueno, Yūta Hiraoka, Yuika Motokariya, Nagisa Abe, Noriko Eguchi, Fumiyo Kohinata
Roles Mie Suzuki
Rating74%
On a hot summer's day, 13 schoolgirls are bored in a remedial math class. One girl, Tomoko, watches the school's brass band leave to perform at a baseball game, but they have forgotten their bento lunches. Tomoko and the other girls persuade their teacher, Mr Ozawa, to let them deliver the lunches. On the train, Tomoko eats a lunch, and the girls fall asleep and miss their stop. By the time they deliver the lunches to the swing band, they have spoiled, and all 42 band members become sick. Only the cymbal player, Nakamura, whose lunch Tomoko ate, is unaffected.
Give It All (1998)
, 2hDirected by Itsumichi Isomura
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Rena Tanaka, Itsumichi Isomura, Tomoko Nakajima, Hakuryu, Mutsuko Sakura, Fujiko
Roles Fuki Shinomura
Rating70%
De nos jours, sous une pluie battante, des entrepreneurs inspectent un vieil hangar. Ils passent sans y prêter attention devant une photo jaunie par le temps et l'humidité, une photo d'une équipe féminine d'aviron... À Matsuyama, peu de temps après la rentrée des classes de l'année 1976, Etsuko Shinomura, une élève sans grande passion décide de faire de l'aviron mais se voit éconduite ; l'équipe de l'école Higashi est essentiellement masculine. Malgré cela, Etsune se met en tête de monter sa propre équipe. Et en Hime, Dakko, Ri et Imochi, elle a trouvé les quatre autres membres de son équipe, mais aussi et surtout, quatre grandes complices.
Maborosi (1995)
, 1h50Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Makiko Esumi, Tadanobu Asano, Takashi Naitō, Akira Emoto, Midori Kiuchi, Naomi Watanabe
Roles Tomeno
Rating74%
Yumiko (Esumi) and Ikuo (Asano) are a young Osaka couple who have a new baby. One day Ikuo is walking along the tracks and is hit by a train. It seems like he may have done this deliberately yet there is no apparent motive. A few years pass. Yumiko agrees to an arranged marriage with a widower, Tamio (Naitō), and she and Yuichi (her son, now played by Gohki Kashima) move to Tamio's house in a rustic village on the Sea of Japan coast, shot on location in Wajima, on the Noto Peninsula (the actual location where the film was shot is Uniumachi about 5 km west from Wajima along the coast, map location: 37.400260N, 136.
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
, 1h43Directed by Masayuki Suo
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka, Akira Emoto, Robert James Hoffman III, Mutsuko Sakura
Roles Yuki Anayama
Rating71%
In order to graduate from college in a timely manner, and to gain the job waiting for him due to his family connections, Shuhei must join the school's sumo team to please his professor. Shuhei and the other reluctant sumo wrestlers on the team are inspired by the professor's determination into doing their best for the school.
Akitsu Hot Springs (1962)
, 1h47Directed by Yoshishige Yoshida
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sumiko Hidaka, Jūkichi Uno, Sō Yamamura, Eijirō Tōno
Roles Geisha C
Rating71%
1945. La fin de la guerre approche. Sur les conseils d'une femme rencontrée fortuitement, Shūsaku, un étudiant souffrant d'une pneumonie, se rend dans un onsen, situé dans les montagnes. Là, il ne songe qu'à mourir en paix. Mais, Shinkō, une jeune fille débordant d'énergie, lui insuffle le goût de la vie. Grâce à elle, il est sauvé. Le jour où la défaite du Japon est annoncée, Shinkō est profondément bouleversée et Shūsaku, ému, s'éprend d'elle. Ils souhaitent vivre ensemble, mais la mère de Shinkō ne veut pas d'un homme désargenté et sans perspectives. Shūsaku retourne à Tōkyō et finit par se marier. Durant dix-sept années, Shinkō, fidèle et amoureuse, le revoit par intermittence et espère toujours. Un jour, pourtant, Shūsaku lui rend visite, une ultime fois, pour lui annoncer, qu'étant muté dans une lointaine contrée, il ne la reverra plus.
Akitsu Hot Springs (1962)
, 1h53Directed by Yoshishige Yoshida
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sumiko Hidaka, Sō Yamamura, Jūkichi Uno, Eijirō Tōno
Roles Geisha C
Rating71%
The film is set at the Akitsu health spa. Just after World War II, Shusaku Kawamoto (Hiroyuki Nagato) who is suffering from tuberculosis, has come to Akitsu to die. One young girl, Shinko (Mariko Okada), refuses to let him and invigorates him on the slow path to recovery. They fall in love, and in one of his darker moments, Shusaku asks Shinko to join him in double suicide. She accepts his love but not ready to die. Neither, it transpires, is Shusaku, and slowly they part. Time passes, Shinko finds out that Shusaku is married with a child, and he seems to have no interest in her any more.
Zero Focus (1961)
, 1h35Directed by Yoshitarō Nomura
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Yoshiko Kuga, Ineko Arima, Koji Nanbara, Kō Nishimura, Yoshi Katō, Sadako Sawamura
Rating69%
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and doesn't return. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
Late Autumn (1960)
, 2h8Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Setsuko Hara, Ryō Ikebe, Mariko Okada, Yōko Tsukasa, Chishū Ryū, Keiji Sada
Roles Hisa Sasaki
Rating78%
Three middle-aged friends and former college mates – Mamiya (Shin Saburi), Taguchi (Nobuo Nakamura) and Hirayama (Ryuji Kita) – meet up for the 7th memorial service of a late college friend, Miwa. Miwa's widow Akiko (Setsuko Hara) and 24-year-old daughter Ayako (Yoko Tsukasa) are also present. The three friends remark amongst themselves how good Akiko looks despite being in her forties.
Good Morning (1959)
, 1h34Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about children
Actors Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishū Ryū, Kuniko Miyake, Haruko Sugimura, Sadako Sawamura
Roles Oden Restaurant Woman
Rating77%
The film takes place in suburban Tokyo, and begins with a group of boy students going home.
Floating Weeds (1959)
, 1h59Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Films about television, Transport films
Actors Ganjirō Nakamura, Machiko Kyō, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Chishū Ryū, Haruko Sugimura
Roles O-Katsu
Rating78%
The film takes place during a hot summer in 1958 at a seaside town on the Inland Sea. A troupe of travelling theatre arrives by ship, headed by the troupe's lead actor and owner, Komajuro (Ganjiro Nakamura). The rest of the troupe goes around the town to publicise their kabuki performances.
Equinox Flower (1958)
, 1h58Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiko Kuga, Ineko Arima, Keiji Sada, Chishū Ryū
Roles Akemi
Rating77%
Wataru Hirayama (Shin Saburi) is a wealthy Tokyo businessman who acts as a go-between for couples seeking marriages. When an old schoolmate Mikami (Chishū Ryū) approaches him for help concerning his daughter Fumiko (Yoshiko Kuga), who has run off owing to a conflict with her father, he agrees. Finding her in a bar where she now works, he listens to her side of the story. Fumiko complains that her father is stubborn, insisting on arranging her marriage, whereas she has now fallen in love with a musician and is adamant to lead life her own way.
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
, 2h20Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Pregnancy films, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Kamatari Fujiwara, Ineko Arima, Setsuko Hara, Isuzu Yamada, Chishū Ryū, Haruko Sugimura
Roles Baa's Female Servant
Rating80%
Akiko Sugiyama (Ineko Arima) is a young college graduate girl learning English shorthand. Her elder sister Takako (Setsuko Hara), running away from an unhappy marriage, has returned home to stay with Akiko and their father Shukichi (Chishū Ryū) in Tokyo, together with her toddler girl. Shukichi works in a bank in Tokyo. Akiko has a relationship with her college boyfriend Kenji, which results in an unwanted pregnancy. Later, Akiko has an abortion after an encounter in which she realizes that her boyfriend does not love her.
Dancing Girls of Izu (1954)
Directed by Yoshitarō Nomura
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Hibari Misora, Shinichi Himori, Jun Tatara, Mutsuko Sakura, Tomio Aoki, Shinsuke Ashida
Rating64%
Une adaptation du roman de Yasunari Kawabata.
Tokyo Story (1953)
, 2h16Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Chishū Ryū, Setsuko Hara, Chieko Higashiyama, Haruko Sugimura, Sō Yamamura, Kyōko Kagawa
Roles Oden Restaurant Woman
Rating81%
A retired couple, Shūkichi and Tomi Hirayama (played by Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama respectively) live in the town of Onomichi in southwest Japan with their unmarried youngest daughter Kyōko (played by Kyōko Kagawa). They have a total of 5 children, who are all grown up. The couple travel to Tokyo to visit their son and daughter as well as their widowed daughter-in-law.