Toyo Takahashi
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 15, 1903
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.
Hero of the Red Light District
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.
Tokyo Story
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Late Spring
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous Gate of Hell (1953).
An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
Early Summer
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
Late Autumn
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
Twenty-Four Eyes
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.
Filmography
as Gin Shimamura
as Tatsuko Morisawa
as Otake
as Nurse Hashimoto
as Oharu
as Gynecologist
as Ebina Hashirako
as Wakamatsu's Owner
as Otama
as Geisha
as Tomi Hamuro
as Mrs. Morihara
as Mrs. Okazaki
as Wakamatsu's Owner
as Ohan
as Mother of Kumagai
as Aiko's Mother
as Shige Okubo
as Wakamatsu's Owner
as Mitsu Shirafuji
as (uncredited)
as 矢島の局
as Concierge (segment 2)
as Han Gan
as Kobayashi Sensei
as Woman Next Door
as Tameko
as Mother Aisha
as Nobu Tamura
as おつた
as Shige
as Moto Yasaka
as 浅子/Asako
as Mother
as 金平の妻おろく
as Okin