Bontarō Miake
Acting
Biography
Actor. Born 1906, died 1987.
Born: October 15, 1906
Place of Birth: Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Image of a Mother
The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries the kind-hearted Sonoko, who has a daughter of her own. As Michio clings to memories of his mother, the family navigates the challenges of grief, love, and new beginnings.
Sansho the Bailiff
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.
Street of Shame
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
The Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Earth
Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.
Late Chrysanthemums
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.
The Woman in the Rumor
After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.
The Water Magician
Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always encloses money in her letters to him, until one hard winter there is no work to be found.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Filmography
as Adm. Koshiro Oikawa
as Shinsaku Fujioka, Sakura Syndicate chair
as Shuntaro Nonomura
as President Yukawa
as Tomoda
as Miwata
as Self-Defense Force General
as Kikuzawa
as Parent C
as Prosecutor Narumi
as Masamichi Arikawa
as Kihachi Oguri
as Father Keita
as Channa
as Ichizô
as Kurisu
as Urajuku no Shichibee
as Police Superintendent
as Kiyotsugu
as Kondo
as Konosuke, Shinobu's father
as Sahira
as Tokioka
as Miyamoto
as Patron
as Senkichi Yuasa
as Moriyama
as Oya, chief editor
as Chief of the Metropolitan Police
as Kan'ya Morita
as Officer Nonomura
as Dr. Kamura
as Father Seiichiro
as Yasuke Shiraishi
as Chen-Hsuan-li
as Saisuke Okazaki
as Teacher Akiyama
as Kobayashi
as Seki
as Kichiji
as Chief army surgeon Yamada
as Shinkichi Shigeno
as Veterinarian
as Numata
as Maruju
as Arifusa
as Ryuzu Maya
as Sanpei Tsuchiya
as Heizo
as Sergeant Fujimoto
as Karuyama
as Shinzô
as 松並の弟敏男
as Samu Kō