Chiemi Eri
Birth : 1937-01-11, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan
Death : 1982-02-13
History
Chiemi Eri, born Chiemi Kubo, was a Japanese singer and actress. Her singing career started at age 14 with a version of "Tennessee Waltz", and the year after in 1952 she made her film debut in "Môjû tsukai no shôjo". Chiemi Eri would star as the lead in the Sazae-san film series adapted from the popular manga. Throughout her career Chiemi Eri would appeared in more than 50 feature films
Japanese crime film
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young sweetheart, but despite their mutual poverty, her status as the daughter of a samurai blocked their path to happiness. A chance opportunity to achieve samurai status would come one day, but Gonza will regret trusting the so-called honorable samurai who extended this fateful offer, and the terrible price he'd pay, fighting for his life in one of the most blood-spattered samurai battles ever filmed.
Toshi
A princess seeks adventure and true love, with help from her loyal servant.
Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him for his "forceful personality," and assigns him to kill evil people, a president of a loan company and a drug baron.
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning combination of drama and humor. The warm friendship that grows between the carpenter, the woman and the children making this into a true masterpiece.
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he and his sweet heart, Hisako decide to get married, Hanjiro is faced with a tough decision. Needing to buy a ticket back home to tell his mother the good news, he compromises his creative principles for love and sells his portrait of Hisako. Hisako heads to the station to see him off, but gets hit by a car...
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a drug deal taking place at their theater.
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, however, his wife's addiction to gambling is of such a magnitude that he is down to selling his underwear to make money. The image sticks and he becomes known as the 'underwear doctor.' On the other hand, his successful surgery's patient is so grateful he himself wants to become a physician.
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
Sazae-san
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.
Sazae-san
Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.
Tomiko Kobayashi
On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film released in Tohoscope.
Sazae-san
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
Midori Kawai
Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a young student, Katō Yutaka, who asks her to let him take her picture. The peddlers also meet a jazz band, and when Midori sings a song, teased by the band's star singer Nanjō Haruo, the band members are enraptured by her beautiful voice. She eventually joins the band and quickly becomes a popular jazz singer.
Sazae-san
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
Eriko
A musical starring 3 Japanese pop music and TV stars.
Chiemi Misono
A 1954 film.
Based on the comic by Machiko Hasegawa
Mari