Shigeru Ogura
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 16, 1904
Place of Birth: Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
Known For
Every-Night Dreams
In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier.
Mr. Thank You
In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.
Mother
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
A Woman Crying in Spring
Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido, Kenji attracts Ohama, who is travelling to Hokkaido to open a bar. When Kenji visits the bar, he chases away a sailor who was hassling a shy girl, Ofuji, which makes Ohama jealous.
Love Letter
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
Okuni and Gohei
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until they have fulfilled their duty of hunting down and killing Tomonojo.
Ginza Cosmetics
A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous ghost stories throughout Japan.
Flesh Pier
Director Teruo Ishii's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style.
Filmography
as Photographer
as Takuetsu
as Hiroshi
as Clerk at clothing store
as Tokutaro Kimura
as Oshaberi' Denroku
as Chûya Sakurai
as Newly-wed Man
as Muraki
as Chuko
as Yuka
as Instructor at acting school
as Student next door