Yōnosuke Toba
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 16, 1905
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Snow-Flake
Five Sisters
The story of five sisters.
Ōoka Cases Devil's Image - Part One
A Japanese silent film
365 Nights
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and decides to marry her. Only to discover that his father is is in debt and wants him to marry Ranko so that she may help his company by granting 1.5 million yen. Teruko decides to borrow money from a greedy bar owner who lends her money on certain conditions and photographs her without her consent. A love traingle forms between Koroku, Ranko, and Teruko. Things complicate when Koroku marries Teruko and Tsugawa threatens them for the money causing many twists and turns.
Priest of Darkness
A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.
Mother
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Husband and Wife
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
The Way of Drama
The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events.
Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.
Filmography
as Masayoshi Matsukata
as Vice-Admiral Kamimura
as Naosuke Fukuhara
as Editor-in-chief
as Seiriki Tomigorô
as Mr. Jinba
as Genzô - Well digger
as Koroku
as Zensuke Omura
as President Yamakawa
as Okamoto's colleague (uncredited)
as Police Officer Kumazawa
as Toragoro
as Kurôsuke
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
as Kichigorô Kappa
as Senjuro Nakahara
as Suruga Arikawa
as Hachiemon Fuji
as Rokue Andô