Taizō Fukami
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 22, 1901
Place of Birth: Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
The Third Will
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father.
Temptation
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.
Eight Hours of Terror
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
Sisters of the Gion
Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She thinks that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. Omocha therefore tries various schemes to get rid of Furusawa, and set themselves up with better patrons.
Snow Trail
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.
Crazed Fruit
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.
No Regrets for Our Youth
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own path in pre- and post-WWII Japan.
Street of Violence
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Dispersed Clouds
Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a young physician who diagnoses her illness as a mild case of pneumonia. With Masako in good hands and needing a few days to recuperate, her classmates continue their tour. Masako’s recovery, however, is hampered by her spoiled and immature nature and her determination to punish the world for the loss of her mother.
Filmography
as Doctor
as Yanagida
as Yuzo Sada
as Yottsuan
as Motoyama Branch Manager
as Taizo Nakayama
as Dr. Anzai
as Yoshida
as Father
as Baseball Spectator
as Tachibana
as Chief Detective
as Minister of Education
as Kimura
as Gorô Imasato
as Doi Ooi-no-kami Toshikatsu
as Schoolteacher
as Hokushin
as Mr. Sokotani
as Barber
as Fujii
as Kimura