Chieko Murata

Chieko Murata

Born: February 28, 1915
in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Actress. Born 1915, died November 1995.

Movies for Chieko Murata...

Title: Chōjin Sentai Jetman
Character: Kinuyo
Released: February 15, 1991
Type: TV
The Sky Force sends five highly trained operatives to participate in an experiment which will expose them to Birdonic Waves, resulting in superhuman abilities. But when the Earth Ship is attacked by Vyram, the majority of the Birdonic Waves are sent to Earth and find four unsuspecting civilians. Now, it's up to these four accidental super humans – Raita, Kaori, Ako, and Gai – alongside Ryu, the only original operative to receive Birdonic Waves, to defend their dimension against Vyram.
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Devil's Flute
Title: Devil's Flute
Character: Ume
Released: January 20, 1979
Type: Movie
Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the backdrop of wealth, this film is loaded with twists and turns and surprises at every corner.
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The Sun of Love and Tears
Title: The Sun of Love and Tears
Character: Taka Hatano
Released: July 30, 1966
Type: Movie
The golden duo of Yukio Hashi and Chieko Baisho. A film rich in a variety of songs, dances and falling in love to the rhythm of Yukio Hashi's song of the same name.
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Black Snow
Title: Black Snow
Released: June 9, 1965
Type: Movie
Black Snow tells the tale of a disturbed young man who, after spying on his mother with a black serviceman, finds himself unable to attain sexual arousal unless fondling a loaded gun. Later that night, he murders the GI before running amok through the building and finally slaying his mother's sister...
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My Wife
Title: My Wife
Released: May 16, 1965
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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Song of Happiness
Title: Song of Happiness
Released: December 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.
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High School Juniors (Part II)
Title: High School Juniors (Part II)
Released: August 22, 1964
Type: Movie
A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity and find fun and happiness in helping others.
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High School Third Graders
Title: High School Third Graders
Released: November 16, 1963
Type: Movie
In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to Tomorrow” with the same title, produced by Daiei with this song as a motif. Singer and actor Funaki Kazuo also appears in the movie, which depicts the fun, love and heartbreak in a Japanese school.
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The Red Water
Title: The Red Water
Released: May 3, 1963
Type: Movie
Comedy drama film
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Girls Born in August
Title: Girls Born in August
Released: February 19, 1963
Type: Movie
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Fūshinraishin
Title: Fūshinraishin
Released: December 1, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
Title: Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
Character: Owner
Released: November 17, 1962
Type: Movie
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle after three years of intense contemplation and philosophical study and starting on his epic quest to complete his skill in the Way.
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
Title: Diary of a Mad Old Man
Character: Tamako
Released: October 20, 1962
Type: Movie
Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still rages on -- unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly attentions of his daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, flashy dancer with a shady past. Pitiful and ridiculous as he is, Utsugi is without a trace of self-pity, and his diary shines with self-effacing good humor.
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The Whale God
Title: The Whale God
Released: July 15, 1962
Type: Movie
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.
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Red Love, Green Love
Title: Red Love, Green Love
Released: June 17, 1962
Type: Movie
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Eriko
Title: Eriko
Character: Fujino Miyahara
Released: March 25, 1962
Type: Movie
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.
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Yume de aritai
Title: Yume de aritai
Released: January 14, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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The Burdened Sisters
Title: The Burdened Sisters
Character: Shino
Released: December 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.
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A Geisha's Diary
Title: A Geisha's Diary
Character: Kazuko
Released: July 28, 1961
Type: Movie
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.
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The Old Temple Well
Title: The Old Temple Well
Character: Oroku
Released: July 5, 1961
Type: Movie
Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost.
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A Design for Dying
Title: A Design for Dying
Released: June 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.
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Triangle Moods
Title: Triangle Moods
Released: May 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, businessman Kokichi and Sanpei Pachinko.
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The Big Wave
Title: The Big Wave
Character: Yukio's mother
Released: April 2, 1961
Type: Movie
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on the other. Yukio's younger sister Setsu follows then and dreams of becoming a pearl diver. Toru is preparing to go fishing with his father when a bell tolls and a danger flag is hung high on the hill behind the village to warn of an impending tidal wave by the village patriarch, known as Old Gentleman.
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Black Sea of Trees
Title: Black Sea of Trees
Released: December 14, 1960
Type: Movie
Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu. Sachiko begins to trace her sister's friendships to unravel the mystery of her mysterious death...
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風来物語 あばれ飛車
Title: 風来物語 あばれ飛車
Released: September 28, 1960
Type: Movie
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Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane
Title: Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane
Released: June 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse, so that she can become empowered as an agent of her father's vengeance.
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A Woman's Testament
Title: A Woman's Testament
Released: January 14, 1960
Type: Movie
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
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風来物語任侠篇
Title: 風来物語任侠篇
Released: October 28, 1959
Type: Movie
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Yotsuya Ghost Story
Title: Yotsuya Ghost Story
Character: Omaki
Released: July 1, 1959
Type: Movie
In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance.
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Image of a Mother
Title: Image of a Mother
Character: Fude Ôki
Released: March 4, 1959
Type: Movie
The final film in Shimizu’s thirty-plus year career, Image of a Mother remains true to Shimizu’s central themes as a young boy must learn to form a relationship with his new stepmother. A rare scope feature from Shimizu, his final work forms a fitting farewell to a career so devoted to the lives of the misunderstood.
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The Makioka Sisters
Title: The Makioka Sisters
Released: January 14, 1959
Type: Movie
1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
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The Snowy Heron
Title: The Snowy Heron
Released: November 29, 1958
Type: Movie
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.
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The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall
Title: The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall
Released: June 15, 1958
Type: Movie
When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall. Shortly afterwards, a catlike demon begins to haunt the castle.
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Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Birdman with 3 Eyes
Title: Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Birdman with 3 Eyes
Released: March 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Suzunosuke faces perhaps his wildest foes. This evil gang is lead by a one-eyed birdman and other demonic creatures.
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Warm Current
Title: Warm Current
Character: Shima Takiko
Released: December 1, 1957
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.
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Down Town
Title: Down Town
Released: October 29, 1957
Type: Movie
A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of her missing husband.
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The Betrothed
Title: The Betrothed
Released: May 28, 1957
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
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Yaneura no Onna-tachi
Title: Yaneura no Onna-tachi
Released: May 14, 1956
Type: Movie
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Tokyo Crime Map
Title: Tokyo Crime Map
Released: March 4, 1956
Type: Movie
An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.
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Princess Yang Kwei Fei
Title: Princess Yang Kwei Fei
Character: Lu-hua
Released: May 3, 1955
Type: Movie
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.
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A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
Title: A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
Released: April 23, 1955
Type: Movie
A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
Title: The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
Released: December 29, 1954
Type: Movie
A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.
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A Geisha on Horseback
Title: A Geisha on Horseback
Character: Oyasu
Released: November 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the early Taisho era.
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Zenigata Heiji: Ghost Lord
Title: Zenigata Heiji: Ghost Lord
Released: September 29, 1954
Type: Movie
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The Messenger from the Moon
Title: The Messenger from the Moon
Character: Head Nurse Oshita
Released: September 22, 1954
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.
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A Samurai's Love
Title: A Samurai's Love
Released: March 3, 1954
Type: Movie
A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.
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Kurohyō
Title: Kurohyō
Released: July 17, 1953
Type: Movie
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Aijô ni tsuite
Title: Aijô ni tsuite
Released: May 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her parents' house in Tokyo with her five-year-old daughter Yoshiko.
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Lightning
Title: Lightning
Character: Nuiko
Released: October 9, 1952
Type: Movie
The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.
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Haha machi gusa
Title: Haha machi gusa
Released: August 17, 1951
Type: Movie
Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the older widow she works with that the new girl is undoubtedly her half-sister. When the younger sister suddenly flees on account of a misunderstanding, Asako makes up her mind to find the mother who deserted them both.
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Clothes of Deception
Title: Clothes of Deception
Character: Chiyo
Released: January 13, 1951
Type: Movie
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
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Sakon Detective Story: Handprint in Fresh Blood
Title: Sakon Detective Story: Handprint in Fresh Blood
Released: December 2, 1950
Type: Movie
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Title: The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Released: September 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
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A Hen in the Wind
Title: A Hen in the Wind
Character: Akiko Ida
Released: September 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences.
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A Flower Blooms
Title: A Flower Blooms
Released: April 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.
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The Ball at the Anjo House
Title: The Ball at the Anjo House
Character: Chiyo, Tadahiko's girlfriend
Released: September 27, 1947
Type: Movie
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the family holds one last ball before leaving.
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The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
Title: The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
Released: April 1, 1947
Type: Movie
The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's corpse however, was infested with deadly bacteria and the men have only 30 hours left to live...
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Wakare mo tanoshi
Title: Wakare mo tanoshi
Released: September 13, 1945
Type: Movie
1945 Japanese movie
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Saigo no kikyō
Title: Saigo no kikyō
Released: July 26, 1945
Type: Movie
1945 Japanese movie
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Sugata naki teki
Title: Sugata naki teki
Released: January 25, 1945
Type: Movie
1945 Japanese movie
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The Cruel Sea
Title: The Cruel Sea
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts a limit on the number of warships any country can possess. As a result, Japan has to decommission a ship to its makers' disappointment. An institute of technology's laboratory designs a new ship. Due to less ships, sailors have to retire and are also disappointed. The laboratory's manager and an admiral are visiting a patient at a hospital and meet coincidentally. The former has a daughter who worries about her father's workload. She asks him to accompany her to a concert. Father has little time, but is convinced for her sake. He is inspired for a ship's design at the performance. The film is inspired by the life of Jo Hiraga.
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Tale of Jiro
Title: Tale of Jiro
Released: December 11, 1941
Type: Movie
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Family of Love
Title: Family of Love
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Family of Love
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Earth
Title: Earth
Character: Landowner's Wife
Released: April 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.
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Jinsei Gekijo: Zankyaku hen
Title: Jinsei Gekijo: Zankyaku hen
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
1938 Theater of Life adaptation.
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Chushingura
Title: Chushingura
Released: March 31, 1938
Type: Movie
The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge their master and his family.
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The Naked Town
Title: The Naked Town
Released: May 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.
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Theater of Life: Youth Version
Title: Theater of Life: Youth Version
Released: February 13, 1936
Type: Movie
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Happy Daughter
Title: Happy Daughter
Character: Setsuko Maeda
Released: May 3, 1934
Type: Movie