Masami Taura
Acting
Biography
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Born: October 6, 1932
Place of Birth: Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Tokyo Twilight
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Early Spring
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Wedding Day
Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as a writer and Sakie, his daughter, finding a suitable match, while the family is struggling with the losses of war.
Hunting Rifle
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.
The Garden of Women
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
When It Rains, It Pours
Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess.
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
The Tattered Wings
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.
A Japanese Tragedy
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
Kenkagarasu
Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.
Filmography
as Tsumura
as Eikichi
as Kentaro Tada
as Takenosuke Abe
as Kenji Kimura
as Koichi Kitagawa
as Vendor
as Jiro Sakurai
as Makoto Musuko, Nobuko's son
as Mr. Mitsui, Noboru's friend
as Yoshikazu Sagara
as Norio
as Haruko's son