Kiyo Murakami

Kiyo Murakami

Born: March 16, 1928
in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Kiyo Murakami...

Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Title: Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Released: December 20, 1986
Type: Movie
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist.
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Title: Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Released: August 4, 1984
Type: Movie
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.
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Call from Darkness
Title: Call from Darkness
Released: September 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…
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Fairy Beauty
Title: Fairy Beauty
Released: December 12, 1978
Type: Movie
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The Beauty in the Bathroom
Title: The Beauty in the Bathroom
Released: January 7, 1978
Type: Movie
Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began airing on Asahi TV in the second half of the 1970s and gained popularity. Famous actor Tian Zhimao plays detective wise Kogoro. A magician who targets the Yucun family, who obtain huge wealth through gemstones. Even the wise Kogoro was fooled by his meticulous criminal plan
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The Faceless Man
Title: The Faceless Man
Character: Housewife
Released: August 20, 1977
Type: Movie
First in a series of Japanese TV movies which were based on horror-tinged mystery novels by Edogawa Ranpo.
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Title: Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Released: August 20, 1977
Type: TV
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Title: Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Character: Housekeeper
Released: August 20, 1977
Type: TV
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Tora-san's Pure Love
Title: Tora-san's Pure Love
Released: December 25, 1976
Type: Movie
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.
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The Castle of Sand
Title: The Castle of Sand
Character: Oku
Released: October 19, 1974
Type: Movie
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
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Miyamoto Musashi
Title: Miyamoto Musashi
Released: July 13, 1973
Type: Movie
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Title: Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Released: January 4, 1973
Type: Movie
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
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The Rendezvous
Title: The Rendezvous
Character: Old lady
Released: March 29, 1972
Type: Movie
The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
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Tora-san's Love Call
Title: Tora-san's Love Call
Released: December 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
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Price of Life
Title: Price of Life
Released: July 24, 1971
Type: Movie
Comedy of a phony doctor.
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Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
Title: Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
Released: April 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. The official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin. Three of them band together to accomplish this, one an expert swordsman, another a huge judo master and the third is deadly with a chain. To escape, she heads for the fishing town of Itso but soon comes face to face with Sankuro, the swordsman...
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It's Tough Being a Man
Title: It's Tough Being a Man
Released: August 27, 1969
Type: Movie
Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sakura's chance to marry someone, as well as just being a real pain to those around him. There is a sentimental side to him also, and the best way to describe him is that he grows on you.
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Warm Current
Title: Warm Current
Released: April 29, 1966
Type: Movie
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Gamblers' Luck
Title: Gamblers' Luck
Released: March 19, 1966
Type: Movie
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.
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A Trap
Title: A Trap
Released: May 28, 1965
Type: Movie
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
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The Scarlet Camellia
Title: The Scarlet Camellia
Released: November 21, 1964
Type: Movie
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
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Boku chin hōrō-ki
Title: Boku chin hōrō-ki
Released: August 26, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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One Way Ticket to Love
Title: One Way Ticket to Love
Character: Young woman
Released: April 15, 1960
Type: Movie
The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.
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Only She Knows
Title: Only She Knows
Released: April 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event creates increasing discord and agony for her and her loved ones.
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Farewell to Spring
Title: Farewell to Spring
Character: Makita's maid
Released: April 28, 1959
Type: Movie
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
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Kemono no yado
Title: Kemono no yado
Released: June 8, 1951
Type: Movie
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Weeping Doll
Title: Weeping Doll
Released: May 19, 1951
Type: Movie
A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
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Broken Drum
Title: Broken Drum
Character: Tsuyu, a maid
Released: December 1, 1949
Type: Movie
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
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Apostasy
Title: Apostasy
Released: November 30, 1948
Type: Movie
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.