Chieko BaishoFilmography

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Howl's Moving Castle

Actors: Chieko Baisho, Emily Mortimer, Christian Bale, Takuya Kimura, Lauren Bacall, Akihiro Miwa, Tatsuya Gasyuin, Billy Crystal, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Josh Hutcherson, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: Hayao Miyazaki, the Japanese animation director who wowed audiences worldwide with his award-winning film Spirited Away, brings another visually spectacular tale of imagination to the screen. Sophie is an 18-year-old girl who toils in the hat shop opened years ago by her late father. Often Read More

11/20/04
Otoko wa Tsurai Yo: Torajiro Kokoro no Tabiji

Actors: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Masami Shimojo, Chieko Misaki

Synopsis: Kiyoshi Atsumi plays Tora-San, a legendary Japanese "everyman" whose seriocomic adventures have been documented in dozens of films. While taking a train trip, the Chaplinesque Tora-San comes to the aid of suicidal businessman Akira Emoto. When the businessman expresses a desire to visit Vienna Read More

1989
Otoko wa Tsurai Yo: Boku no Ojisan

Actors: Chieko Baisho, Kiyoshi Atsumi

1989
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

Synopsis: This nostalgic backward glance at the earliest days of Japanese talking pictures was originally titled Kinema no Tenchi. The year is 1933: Narimi Arimori plays a lovely young girl who is groomed for film stardom by director Ittoku Kishibe. Narimi's biggest obstacle is a lack of talent, but Kishibe Read More

1987
Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo: Shiretoko Bojo

Actors: Keiko Awaji, Chieko Baisho, Toshiro Mifune, Kiyoshi Atsumi

1987
Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo: Shibamata Yori Ai o Komete

Actors: Chieko Baisho, Kiyoshi Atsumi

1986
Uemura Naomi Monogatari

Actors: Toshiyuki Nishida, Chieko Baisho, Masato Furuoya, Go Wakabayashi, Muga Takewaki

Synopsis: Mountain-climbers may be the most appreciative audience for this long (2 1/2 hour) film by Junya Sato on Japanese sportsman Naomi Uemura. Uemura had a difficult childhood that led him to take on incredibly dangerous challenges all by himself, in which he remarkably succeeded again and again. He Read More

1986
Kinema No Tenchi

Actors: Narimi Arimori, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Kiichi Nakai, Chieko Baisho, Koshiro Matsumoto

Synopsis: The environment and the movie stars at a Japanese film studio in the early '30s are recreated in this drama that looks back on a distinctive period in cinematic history. Using celebrated director Yasujiro Ozu as a model, fictional director Ogata (Ittoku Kishibe) discovers a new female star quite Read More

1986
Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo: Kuchibue o Fuku Torajiro

Actors: Chieko Baisho, Kiyoshi Atsumi

1984
Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo: Hana mo Arashi mo Torajiro

1983
Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo: Tabi no Onna to Torajiro

Actors: Chieko Baisho, Kiyoshi Atsumi

1983
Eki

Actors: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho, Ayumi Ishida, Setsuko Karasuma, Yuko Kotegawa

Synopsis: The infamous "Criminal 22" is at large in Tokyo. This is a vicious, sadistic murderer who takes special delight in "offing" cops. Detective Ken Takakura makes it his mission in life to wipe Criminal 22 from the face of the earth. If The Station plays like an American crime-and-punishment picture Read More

1981
Otoko wa Tsurai Yo: Naniwa no Koi no Torajiro

Actors: Chieko Baisho, Kiyoshi Atsumi

1981
Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo: Torajiro Haibiscus no Hana

Actors: Chieko Baisho, Kiyoshi Atsumi

1980
Harukanaru Yama No Yobigoe

Actors: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Mizuho Suzuki, Hajime Hana

Synopsis: Most viewers will recognize the tear-jerking techniques used in this transparent, sometimes understated melodrama, but they may succumb anyway. Director Yoji Yamada is masterful at wringing poignancy and pathos out of this transparent script and he has a good team of actors. Kosaku (Ken Takakura) Read More

1980
Siawasi No Kiroi Hankachi

Actors: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho, Tetsuya Takeda

Synopsis: When he gets a "Dear John" letter from his girlfriend, the disappointed young man in this story quits his job, takes his savings to buy a car, and takes off on a trip to Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. During a side trip to a beach, he meets a girl who joins him on his trip. He also takes Read More

1978
Home From the Sea

Synopsis: A Japanese family business is endangered by the threat of a large corporation. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1973
Kazoku

Synopsis: From an impoverished life in a fishing village on an island, a modern Japanese family moves to live the life of pioneers in the far northern reaches of Japan. Even with the extensive overpopulation in the south of the country, these regions are still relatively undeveloped and underpopulated. Read More

1971
Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo: Junjo-Hen

1971
Topsy-Turvy Journey

Synopsis: In this Japanese romantic comedy, a love-lorn train conductor falls in love with a cooking instructor and decides to enroll in her latest class. The conductor is loved by a different girl who also enrolls to keep him away from the teacher. Comic mayhem ensues until the teacher and the conductor Read More

1970
Shin Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo

1970
Yosakoi Journey

Synopsis: In this Japanese melodrama, a railway worker cheats on his free-spirited wife. When he discovers that his mistress is engaged to another, the fellow returns to his own wife and learns that she is pregnant. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1970
Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo

Actors: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Gin Maeda, Shin Morikawa, Chieko Misaki

Synopsis: This riotous 1969 comedy was the first in a series of 28 (counting up to 1981) and except for two instances, all were directed by Yoji Yamada. The main character is Torajiro played by Kiyoshi Atsumi, a Japanese version of Charlie Chaplin's tramp who breeds disaster wherever he innocently treads. Read More

1969
Zoku Otoko wa Tsurai Yo

Actors: Chieko Baisho, Kiyoshi Atsumi

Synopsis: Tora-san returns in this the sequel to Otokowa Tsuraiyo. Once again the film's gruff but kind-hearted protagonist ventures to the far reaches of Japan. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

1969
Samurai from Nowhere

Actors: Tetsuro Tamba, Shima Iwashita, Chieko Baisho, Seiji Miyaguchi

Synopsis: Japanese screenwriter Hideo Oguni, who had previously worked on such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961), contributed his adept storytelling to this drama shortly after working on Kurosawa's intriguing High and Low (1962). Like Seven Samurai, as the title indicates Read More

1964
Watakushitachi no Kekkon

Actors: Chieko Baisho

1962
Futari de Aruita Iku Shunju

Actors: Keiji Sata, Hideko Takamine

1962
Yama no Sanka: Moyuru Wakamono-tachi

Actors: So Yamamura, Isuzu Yamada

1962

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Chieko BaishoFilmography

Howl's Moving Castle

Otoko wa Tsurai Yo: Torajiro Kokoro no Tabiji

Otoko wa Tsurai Yo: Boku no Ojisan

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo: Shiretoko Bojo

Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo: Shibamata Yori Ai o Komete

Uemura Naomi Monogatari

Kinema No Tenchi

Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo: Kuchibue o Fuku Torajiro

Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo: Hana mo Arashi mo Torajiro

Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo: Tabi no Onna to Torajiro

Eki

Otoko wa Tsurai Yo: Naniwa no Koi no Torajiro

Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo: Torajiro Haibiscus no Hana

Harukanaru Yama No Yobigoe

Siawasi No Kiroi Hankachi

Home From the Sea

Kazoku

Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo: Junjo-Hen

Topsy-Turvy Journey

Shin Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo

Yosakoi Journey

Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo

Zoku Otoko wa Tsurai Yo

Samurai from Nowhere

Watakushitachi no Kekkon

Futari de Aruita Iku Shunju

Yama no Sanka: Moyuru Wakamono-tachi

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