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[3] [1] [5] The film was the highest-grossing film of 1959 for Toho and the second highest grossing domestic production in Japan for the year. [ 4 ] The film was shown in Japan in 1959 as Nippon Tanjo ( The Birth of Japan ) with a running time of 182 minutes, but it was released in the United States in December 1960 as The Three Treasures ...
Japanese films released in 1959; Title Director Cast Genre Notes Battle in Outer Space: Ishirō Honda: Ryō Ikebe, Kyoko Anzai, Minoru Takada: Science fiction [1] [2] Beauty Is Guilty: Yasuzo Masumura: Ayako Wakao, Fujiko Yamamoto: Romance [3] [unreliable source?] Beni azami: Enchanted Princess: Ayako Wakao, Raizo Ichikawa: Fantasy [4 ...
Eiichi Ono (小野 榮一, Ono Eiichi, December 6, 1924 – June 16, 1987), better known by his stage name Kōji Tsuruta (鶴田 浩二, Tsuruta Kōji), was a Japanese actor and singer. He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing. His daughter, Sayaka Tsuruta, is an actress.
March 7 – Ichirō Hatoyama, politician and 35th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1883) April 30 – Kafū Nagai, author, playwright, essayist, and diarist (b. 1879) June 20 – Hitoshi Ashida, politician and 35th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1887) August 9 – Noboru Ishizaki, admiral (b. 1893)
A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos. Kodansha America. ISBN 978-4-7700-2995-9. Sato, Tadao (1982). Currents In Japanese Cinema. Kodansha America. ISBN 978-0-87011-815-9. Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo (2008). Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. University of Hawaii Press.
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Setsuko Hara was born Masae Aida (会田 昌江, Aida Masae) in what is now Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama in a family with three sons and five daughters. Her elder sister was married to film director Hisatora Kumagai, which gave her an entry into the world of the cinema: he encouraged her to drop out of school, which she did, [3] and then she went to work for Nikkatsu Studios in Tamagawa, outside ...