Reiko Dan

Reiko Dan

Born: March 26, 1935
Died: November 24, 2003
in Kyoto City, Kyoto, Japan
Reiko Dan (団 令子 Dan Reiko, 26 March 1935 – 24 November 2003), real name Reiko Hamada (浜田 令子 Hamada Reiko), was a Japanese actress. She appeared in multiple films between 1957 and 1974, such as Sanjuro and Red Beard. She retired in 1974, coming back briefly from the late 1980s to 1990 to support her son, Yuta Dan (1967–2006), who was also an actor.

Movies for Reiko Dan...

A Sandcastle Model Family Home
Title: A Sandcastle Model Family Home
Released: September 15, 1989
Type: Movie
An opportune salaryman moves his family into a model mansion for 12 months; unfortunately, they must allow prospective buyers to trek through their home during business hours.
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Little Adventurer
Title: Little Adventurer
Released: March 3, 1973
Type: Movie
Mickey, a smart student from England, is on his trip to Japan for vacation. He meets with a Chinese girl Lin Fang on the way. They each have the same model of camera. But they have their cameras exchanged without their knowing it prior to their departure.
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How to Be the Worst of Office Workers
Title: How to Be the Worst of Office Workers
Released: June 22, 1968
Type: Movie
A salaryman comedy.
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The Age of Assassins
Title: The Age of Assassins
Character: Keiko Tsurumaki
Released: February 4, 1967
Type: Movie
A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat miraculously, he fends off other assassins and with the help of reporter Keiko Tsurumaki and car mechanic Bill Otomo, eventually discovering that a "population control" association is really an assassination squad led by Shogo Mizorogi, who has been training patients of a mental asylum to become killers.
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The Daphne
Title: The Daphne
Character: Sakura (the third daughter)
Released: October 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her brother try various schemes to find husbands for them.
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The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
Title: The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
Character: Ocho
Released: January 3, 1966
Type: Movie
Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life
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The Crazy Adventure
Title: The Crazy Adventure
Character: Etsuko
Released: October 31, 1965
Type: Movie
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Fort Graveyard
Title: Fort Graveyard
Character: Oharu
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.
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Red Beard
Title: Red Beard
Character: Osugi
Released: April 3, 1965
Type: Movie
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
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Five Gents' Trick Book
Title: Five Gents' Trick Book
Released: January 3, 1965
Type: Movie
The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
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The Call of Flesh
Title: The Call of Flesh
Released: September 19, 1964
Type: Movie
A young woman (Dan) who worked as a prostitute in the days following World War II finds herself sexually dissatisfied with her husband and contemplates returning to an old lover who comes back into her life.
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The Naked Executive
Title: The Naked Executive
Character: Sakiko Konishi
Released: July 1, 1964
Type: Movie
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the loneliest person in Japan." He lost his wife ten years ago and has been living as a widower ever since. He plotted to marry off his 22-year-old daughter Keiko for political gain, but Keiko is in love with Okuda, who is her father's subordinate. A story full of sadness and joy, depicting a man gripped by different thoughts, as an employee of the company and a father.
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Operation Mad Dog
Title: Operation Mad Dog
Released: September 29, 1963
Type: Movie
Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda
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The Best Playboy In Japan
Title: The Best Playboy In Japan
Character: Maruko Kanayama
Released: July 13, 1963
Type: Movie
The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but became star. First film in popular "Number 1" Series.
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The Maid Story
Title: The Maid Story
Released: June 16, 1963
Type: Movie
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 forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.
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Ichi ka bachi ka
Title: Ichi ka bachi ka
Released: June 16, 1963
Type: Movie
The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.
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Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
Title: Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
Character: Toriko Hideyama
Released: April 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Ensemble comedy.
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Nippon Irresponsible Guy
Title: Nippon Irresponsible Guy
Released: December 23, 1962
Type: Movie
Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".
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My Hobo
Title: My Hobo
Character: Mother
Released: November 23, 1962
Type: Movie
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who become a most atypical Japanese family.
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47 Ronin
Title: 47 Ronin
Character: Okaru
Released: November 3, 1962
Type: Movie
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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Wakai kisetsu
Title: Wakai kisetsu
Released: October 20, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Shin kitsune to tanuki
Title: Shin kitsune to tanuki
Released: September 29, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Happy Go-Lucky
Title: Happy Go-Lucky
Character: Mammaru, the geisha
Released: July 27, 1962
Type: Movie
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.
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Star of Hong Kong
Title: Star of Hong Kong
Character: Sugimoto Kanako
Released: July 14, 1962
Type: Movie
Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru. The two meet again and fall in love in Hokkaido when Wang and her best friend Sugimoto Kanako are going on a holiday. Urged by her friend Zhang Yingming to concentrate on her studies, Wang remains ambivalent about the relationship, and is even more upset to realise that Sugimoto is in love with her fellow countryman. Feigning an engagement with Zhang, Wang initiates a break-up with Hasegawa and finds work in Singapore after graduation. Hasegawa learns the real cause of the break-up from Sugimoto in Hong Kong. A frenzy search finally leads to a reunion and a proposal in Kuala Lumpur. However, their love is doomed by a twist of fate as Wang must leave to see her desperately ill father in Hong Kong while Hasegawa has to leave for America to pursue his career.
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女難コースを突破せよ
Title: 女難コースを突破せよ
Released: April 1, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Ayako
Title: Ayako
Character: Ayako
Released: February 24, 1962
Type: Movie
An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who stole money from his firm to repay his son's debt.
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Pride of the Campus
Title: Pride of the Campus
Character: Kyoko Danno
Released: February 10, 1962
Type: Movie
Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing tournament.
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The Wiser Age
Title: The Wiser Age
Character: Shizuko
Released: January 14, 1962
Type: Movie
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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Sanjuro
Title: Sanjuro
Character: Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
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3 Dolls and Baby Gang
Title: 3 Dolls and Baby Gang
Released: December 9, 1961
Type: Movie
Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.
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The End of Summer
Title: The End of Summer
Character: Yuriko
Released: October 29, 1961
Type: Movie
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
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Procurer of Hell
Title: Procurer of Hell
Character: Saeko Higa
Released: September 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornographic pictures. He frequents a cafe run by two women, one of them a young widow with a son. They like him and think that he is an ordinary office worker. One day, Tobe accidentally discovers pictures of an acquaintance, Kanzaburo, with a woman and sets out to blackmail him. He soon finds out that Kanzaburo died in a train accident but things may not be what they seem
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Sir Galahad in Campus
Title: Sir Galahad in Campus
Released: July 8, 1961
Type: Movie
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.
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Romance Express
Title: Romance Express
Released: April 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as a dour company president. Based on the novel "Seven and a half hours", by Shishi Bunroku.
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The Masterless 47 – Part II
Title: The Masterless 47 – Part II
Released: February 25, 1961
Type: Movie
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Aces Wild
Title: Aces Wild
Released: January 9, 1961
Type: Movie
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother of the Otorigumi, returned from South America for the first time in 15 years. When he stepped on the soil of his native land, his first thought was to visit Otanuki Fudo, the guardian deity of the Otorigumi, but the Otorigumi had fallen and Otanuki Fudo was on the verge of eviction for the construction of an expressway. Keisuke and Joji put on the striped suits left to them by their late boss, and set out to rebuild the clan...
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The Masterless 47
Title: The Masterless 47
Character: Konami
Released: December 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Part one of The Masterless 47.
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Master Fencer Sees the World
Title: Master Fencer Sees the World
Released: October 16, 1960
Type: Movie
A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young man who has a master license menkyo kaiden in the art of swordsmanship, but weak against lies and women. A remake of Bungaku no Issue, shot by Sadao Yamanaka in 1933.
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This Greedy Old Skin
Title: This Greedy Old Skin
Character: Kinu
Released: September 18, 1960
Type: Movie
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs.
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Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4
Title: Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4
Released: July 5, 1960
Type: Movie
The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series.
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The Dangerous Kiss
Title: The Dangerous Kiss
Released: June 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Title: Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Character: Haruko Sakanishi
Released: May 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Title: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Character: Junko Inchihashi
Released: January 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
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The Beast Shall Die
Title: The Beast Shall Die
Character: Taeko Kusumi
Released: June 9, 1959
Type: Movie
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
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The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
Title: The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
Character: Pon, messenger of the Goddess of Mercy
Released: April 19, 1959
Type: Movie
The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original legends, this film substitutes the spindly comic actor Norihei Miki, sans makeup.
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Zoku shachōtaiheiki
Title: Zoku shachōtaiheiki
Released: March 15, 1959
Type: Movie
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
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社長太平記
Title: 社長太平記
Released: January 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
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Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Title: Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Released: December 7, 1958
Type: Movie
1958 Japanese movie
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Adults Cannot Understand - Record of Youth
Title: Adults Cannot Understand - Record of Youth
Released: November 11, 1958
Type: Movie
The first work of 27-year-old director Eizo Sugawa, contrasting a politician father and his son, a drummer in a student band. It depicts the conflict between old and new morals, and the lives of young people.
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The Naked General
Title: The Naked General
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
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Oban kanketsu hen
Title: Oban kanketsu hen
Released: July 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
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All About Marriage
Title: All About Marriage
Character: Mariko Muto
Released: May 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
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The Third President
Title: The Third President
Released: March 18, 1958
Type: Movie
The fifth entry in the Company President Series
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Song for a Bride
Title: Song for a Bride
Released: February 11, 1958
Type: Movie
An Ishiro Honda film.
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City of Love
Title: City of Love
Character: Yukiko Yoshii
Released: January 21, 1958
Type: Movie
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the bar hostess.
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Assistant President
Title: Assistant President
Released: January 3, 1958
Type: Movie