Kajirō Yamamoto
Nascimento : 1902-03-15, Tokyo, Japan
Morte : 1974-09-28
História
Yamamoto Kajiro (山本 嘉次郎) foi um ator, dramaturgo, ensaísta e diretor de cinema, nascido no Subdistrito de Kyobashi, próximo ao Distrito de Ginza, Área Metropolitana de Tóquio, a 15 de março de 1902. Formado pela Universidade de Keio, começou a carreira como ator. Quando a familia descobriu isso, o deserdou. Yamamoto conseguiu emprego nos Estúdios Nikkatsu, onde passou a ser assistente do diretor Tasaka Tomonaka (田坂具隆, 1902-1974), sendo depois transferido para a PCL Eiga Seisaku-jô (ピー・シー・エル映画製作所) realizando o filme "Enoken no Chakkiri Kinta"(エノケンのちゃっきり金太) em 1937, considerado uma das melhores comédias do ator Enomoto Kenichi (榎本 健一, 1904-1970). Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, produziu dramas bélicos como "Hawai Mare Oki Kaisen"(ハワイ・マレー沖海戦). Ao fim da Guerra, dedicou-se a realizar roteiros, instruir novos diretores e trabalhou na televisão. Foi o mentor do cineasta Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明, 1910-1998). Retirou-se em 1973. Morreu em 21 de setembro de 1974, aos 72 anos.
Fonte: http://mundo-oriente.blogspot.com.br/2010/01/kurobe-susumu.html
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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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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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May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. But she is spotted and the press has a field-day with the returning celebrity. Her hopes of rest shattered, she agrees to put on a large-scale fashion show.
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May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. But she is spotted and the press has a field-day with the returning celebrity. Her hopes of rest shattered, she agrees to put on a large-scale fashion show.
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Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuya himself has fallen in love, with a nurse after his recent hospital stay. As the gang grows more jealous of the favoritism Furuya shows Shoji, they decide to reveal Shoji's relationship with Natsue. But Furuya's affection for Shoji cannot be easily destroyed, even in the gang war that erupts.
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Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match in which Maki has an interest in one of the fighters. After a terrible brawl, the two gangsters discover that they have both been played for suckers by their bosses. They join forces to turn the tables on the bosses.
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1950s Japanese comedy.
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1950s Japanese comedy.
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.
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Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student at K University and was a figure player. They had a dream of being dispatched to Oslo in the Olympic Games and were struggling in each way. Mizuno who runs a sports equipment store in Ginza, showed the geisha by guiding the junior's Ikeuchi and others to the shop of Shimbashi one day.
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Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student at K University and was a figure player. They had a dream of being dispatched to Oslo in the Olympic Games and were struggling in each way. Mizuno who runs a sports equipment store in Ginza, showed the geisha by guiding the junior's Ikeuchi and others to the shop of Shimbashi one day.
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Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his disciple Uchiyama and his best friend prosecutor Daisuke Toki accused his music as a sesame of pause-only technique, not a truly heart-hungry art.
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Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his disciple Uchiyama and his best friend prosecutor Daisuke Toki accused his music as a sesame of pause-only technique, not a truly heart-hungry art.
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Murukami, um jovem investigador de homicídios, é roubado em um ônibus e perde sua pistola. Ele começa uma busca insana atrás de sua preciosa arma, sem sucesso, até receber a ajuda de um sábio e mais experiente detetive chamado Sato. Clássico noir do mestre Akira Kurosawa, que redefiniu o padrão de filmes policiais japoneses. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
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Tobisuke, puppeteer in Kyôtô, saves O-fuku's life. Wounded in the head, it can now count to three. O-fuku invited him to meet her mother so she can heals him with a golden fruit. But O-fuku and Tobisuke had to cross the valley of death filled with fantastic creatures, will they survive?
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Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becoming wandering singers who work for tips in Tokyo's Ginza nightlife district.
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Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.
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Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.
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Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.
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A modern take on history with songs and comedy presented by Enoken (as Gonza), Fujiyama (as Sukeju), and Kasagi (Gonza’s wife Osaki).
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Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, one of whom boards with the sisters and their parents. The girls' father argues with them about their strike, but finds his views changing when he himself loses his job.
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Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, one of whom boards with the sisters and their parents. The girls' father argues with them about their strike, but finds his views changing when he himself loses his job.
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Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. Kawakami and Murakami later joins him as the base squardron is reinforced. The enemy task force approaches the island and all three of them attack the fleet, killing themselves in the process.
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Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. Kawakami and Murakami later joins him as the base squardron is reinforced. The enemy task force approaches the island and all three of them attack the fleet, killing themselves in the process.
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A 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the 64th Sentai during the early months of the Pacific War. The film has scenes featuring Ki-43 fighters escorting Ki-21 bombers to attack Rangoon, where they are attacked by P-40 Warhawk and Brewster Buffalo fighters.
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A 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the 64th Sentai during the early months of the Pacific War. The film has scenes featuring Ki-43 fighters escorting Ki-21 bombers to attack Rangoon, where they are attacked by P-40 Warhawk and Brewster Buffalo fighters.
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Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.
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What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.
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What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.
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Ine Onoda, a filha mais velha de uma família de fazendeiros pobres, cria um potro desde que nasce e passa a ama-lo muito. Quando o cavalo cresce, o governo ordena que seja leiloado e vendido ao exército. Ine luta para impedir a venda.
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Ine Onoda, a filha mais velha de uma família de fazendeiros pobres, cria um potro desde que nasce e passa a ama-lo muito. Quando o cavalo cresce, o governo ordena que seja leiloado e vendido ao exército. Ine luta para impedir a venda.
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Second part of the Comedy-Musical about the legendary Monkey King.
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Second part of the Comedy-Musical about the legendary Monkey King.
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Comedy-Musical about the legendary Monkey King.
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Comedy-Musical about the legendary Monkey King.
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Uma lendária opereta de comédia pré-guerra estrelada por Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine e Li Xianglan. O Sanzo Ikkou continua a sua jornada para oeste, numa missão para evitar uma ressurreição demoníaca. Enquanto Genjo Sanzo, Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojyo e Son Goku (Kenichi Enomoto) lutam para alcançar o seu objetivo, mas o caminho está repleto de conflitos internos.
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Uma lendária opereta de comédia pré-guerra estrelada por Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine e Li Xianglan. O Sanzo Ikkou continua a sua jornada para oeste, numa missão para evitar uma ressurreição demoníaca. Enquanto Genjo Sanzo, Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojyo e Son Goku (Kenichi Enomoto) lutam para alcançar o seu objetivo, mas o caminho está repleto de conflitos internos.
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Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
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A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.
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Enoken's pickpocket Kinta (returned from the Chakkiri Kinta movies) finds some unexpected trouble: a stolen diamond necklace he just can't seem to get rid of!
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A Kajirô Yamamoto directed comedy starring Roppa Furukawa.
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A Kajirô Yamamoto directed comedy starring Roppa Furukawa.
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Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.
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A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels the limits to his acting when he sees his rival troupe put on a new type of play featuring its star, Nakamura. He has the famous Chikamatsu write a new play but cannot get used to the character he is to play in it.
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Enoken plays legendary ninja Sarutobi Sasuke, whose magical powers never help as much as expected - in war or in love.
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1930s Japanese comedy.
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1930s Japanese comedy.
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A comedic tale told in four parts, this film follows the antics of the pickpocket Kinta as he is pursued by a low ranking deputy named Kurakichi. The two get into all manner of peccadilloes and encounter a range of peculiar characters as their game of cat and mouse moves across the countryside in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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A comedic tale told in four parts, this film follows the antics of the pickpocket Kinta as he is pursued by a low ranking deputy named Kurakichi. The two get into all manner of peccadilloes and encounter a range of peculiar characters as their game of cat and mouse moves across the countryside in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts him deeply towards Kayo. On the other hand, Kayo prays for the happiness of her best friend and marries a very ordinary man. However, at one point, this mediocre but increasingly ferocious husband died in an accident ... A triangular love story develops depicting a woman's heart that sways between love and morals. Based on a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya, there were originally two parts to the film (If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again), both supposed to be 85 minutes, but apparently what we have now is this 103-minute amalgam of the two.
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Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts him deeply towards Kayo. On the other hand, Kayo prays for the happiness of her best friend and marries a very ordinary man. However, at one point, this mediocre but increasingly ferocious husband died in an accident ... A triangular love story develops depicting a woman's heart that sways between love and morals. Based on a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya, there were originally two parts to the film (If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again), both supposed to be 85 minutes, but apparently what we have now is this 103-minute amalgam of the two.
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A história começa na Parte 1, quando o jovem descendente de Enoken abandona sua riqueza e aceita um emprego em uma loja de departamentos – travesti e às vezes blackface – para provar à garota dos seus sonhos que ele é um homem sério e trabalhador.
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Enoken interpreta um garoto rico enclausurado cujo pai contrata um tutor de má reputação para ensiná-lo a ser realmente um milionário: por devassidão, bebedeiras, mulheres e música.
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1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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Enoken plays a frog-oil-hawking conman whose claims to martial prowess land him in hot water with the local samurai gentry - but not before he falls in love with exactly the wrong girl. Another musical comedy period film quick on the heels of the earlier Kondo Isami.
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Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Meiji Restoration.
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1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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Studio P.C.L. was specifically founded to make sound films, and this early musical balances the aesthetics of the sound film with those of the stage revue. The king of Tokyo’s revue stage, comedian Ken’ichi Enomoto (Enoken) had made his name in the capital’s theatrical district of Asakusa. The film employed not only the star, but his entire theatrical troupe, and the narrative was structured around scenes which Enoken had played successfully on stage. Billed as offering 'Japan’s number one comedy actor and Japan’s number one musical comedy,' the film self-consciously borrowed from Hollywood musical comedy; indeed, the original posters carried spoof endorsements by Eddie Cantor and the Marx Brothers! Director Kajiro Yamamoto, making his P.C.L. debut, would become a stalwart of the company and its successor, Toho. He was to have a profound influence on Japanese film history as mentor to Akira Kurosawa, who assisted him on a number of films including Horse (Uma, 1941).
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Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobody's Girl".
